Update 1: New Crop of Portable Players Nips at iPod
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Lauren, 11, saunters nonchalantly past a Discovery Channel store and a Gymboree clothing store at the mall. Then suddenly, the girl&#39;s eyes light up and she pulls her mother into an Apple Computer Inc.
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Flashy new discs and that old cozy sound have got the iPod generation giving LPs a spin
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Apple will be getting some stiff competition in the coming year. A slew of manufacturers will soon offer players utilizing small 1&quot; hard drives that help propel the iPod and allow them to compete more favorably in the market.
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Apple Computer followed up its wildly popular iPod music player with the iPod Mini in February. This smaller, sleeker $250 player could hold 1,000 songs and came in five brushed-aluminum colors.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - The next wave of iPod competitors is  coming.
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A few years ago, when MP3 players were establishing themselves as the hot cool thing, the next step seemed clear: What if you could take along not only music but movies, television programs, home video and still pictures in a high-tech box svelte enough
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Before Sony brought out its new NW-HD3, it didn&#39;t have a hard-drive-based digital audio player that could play MP3s. This was a shame, because while Apple makes some great MP3 players, it could use some credible competition.
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&#147;I&#146;ve been testing the new iPod Shuffle for a couple of days,&#148; writes Walt Mossberg for the Wall Street Journal, &#147;and, in my tests, it fulfilled &#151; and even exceeded &#151; Apple&#146;s claims for convenience, battery life and song capacity. Sound quality is so good you can barely believe the music is coming from something so small.&#148; [Jan 12, 2005]
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Portable audio player manufacturers bet on smaller, simpler devices in an effort to unseat Apple's IPod.
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With sales of digital music players skyrocketing, is it any wonder that hardware makers are scrambling to create the next big portable entertainment gizmo?
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The Brits finally move to let people use personal FM transmitters such as the Griffin iTrip to connect their iPods to car stereos. Plus: Zune Hack: Trade Any File, Quick In Listening Post.
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After touting the features distinguishing the new MP3 players tempting holiday shoppers this yearâ âvivid color screens,â âtouch screen controls,â âwireless connectivityââKim Komando (USA Today) puts iPod touch at the top of her list. After all, it âplays photos, videos, and music. You can download songs from Appleâs iTunes directly onto the player.â It features a âfull-featured Web browser for surfing the Net,â and âyou can even watch videos on YouTube.â
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That&#39;s the big question regarding Apple&#39;s new iPod Photo, and my answer is yes to both. Yes, icing on the cake, because the iPod Photo takes what is the best portable digital music player
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Juliana Sasaki didnât bother checking out Sonyâs digital music player before buying her green iPod mini. &quot;I knew Sony and other companies had MP3 players, but they canât beat the mini,&quot; says Sasaki, 23, a language teacher.
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2004 is turning out to be the year of the iPod. Last week retailers reported that they're running short on the popular digital music players. This week brings news of novel ways that people are putting their iPods to work.
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The world's highest capacity flash-memory MP3 player -- for now
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Apple&#39;s splashy digital music player has emboldened Microsoft and other technology titans to move quickly to the next frontier in portable entertainment: the video iPod, so to speak.