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...BEEN LONGING for a portable MP3 player but have no intention of shelling out $250 to $400 for an iPod or one of its many imitators, there is a much cheaper--and in some ways equally coolchoice: a flash-based MP3 player. These handy devices, which store songs on a small silicon chip, cost about $100 and are often as small and light as a pack...
Unlike the iPod and similar music players that rely primarily on hard drives to store songs, flash players have no moving parts, which makes them less susceptible to damage if used while jogging or if you drop them. And they are so petite, they fit into the tiniest handbag or pants pocket. In a unique design, Virgin's wearable 128-MB MP3 player ($100) is the size and shape of a silver dollar and can hang like a pendant around your neck...
...Windows Media files and run on a single AAA battery, which lasts about 12 to 20 hours. FM-radio tuners and audio-record features are often built-in (and rarely found on hard-drive players). Flash players weigh about 1 oz., compared with 6 oz. for an iPod...
...course, almost every good thing has a catch, and for flash players it's storage size: most have anywhere from 128 MB to 1 GB of memory, compared with 4 GB on an iPod mini or 15 GB to 40 GB for a full-size model. A 256-MB player holds about eight hours of music or 120 songs, which means you will be refreshing your playlist frequently. That is relatively easy, especially with devices like Creative Labs' Muvo TX FM ($80 for 128 MB or $100 for 256 MB), which has a standard USB port built-in so that...
JAMES PONIEWOZIK'S ESSAY "THE AGE OF iPod Politics," about Americans' ability to fashion their own insular world, was right on target [Sept. 27]. With the smorgasbord of available media coverage of presidential politics, we can see to it that even the news can be personalized to jibe with our own particular reality. America's endless supply of niche media outlets has given us the option of selecting a news source that suits our specific political ideology, leaving us with a narrower perspective and a brazen contempt for opposing viewpoints. Individualism and dissent are the lifeblood of our democracy...