-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 08 November 2006 15:29, Anders Johansson wrote: Thank you both..... Im going to look at all of them!
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 22:26, jfweber@gilweber.com wrote:
Hmmm, my husband uses that Samsung very happily.. I wanted more room and got a Cowan iaudio x5 for roughly $40 more than I paid for his Samsung.. the iaudio has direct ( usb2) interface w/ the computer and you can drag n drop your assorted audio files, flac , mp3, ogg etc. to teh music directory on the iaudio it will then see and play them very happily. It has a capacity of 20GB .. if you want you can take text files and jpegs and use the little screen to read or look at pictures. It has about 14hr battery life on a full charge.. so I can get just about anywhere on a plane w/o going completely spare. I suspect you could fine an ebay or refurb of it in the usual locations.. too
oh yeah it supposedly shows mpegs, but I haven't got it to recognize those .. but even if I did, I don't think I'd waste the space to watch something on a 2 inch screen...
I can vouch for the quality of the iAudio, it is absolutely brilliant. I have an x5 too, and there is an x5l now with over 30 hours' battery life
About the movies, it works very well. The only thing is you have to convert them first to the correct screen size and frame rate (can't remember what right now, I have it written down somewhere)
And I do use the movies, sure the screen is small, but it beats the hell out of the in-flight cinemas :)
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