The MP3 Players

It is out of most people’s expectation that iRiver do not use the familiar Philips’ or Telechip’s decoders. Quite surprisingly, the T10 is powered by Samsung’s decoder, SA58450X01 (ARM9 200MHz). This decoder was the joint efforts of Samsung, iRiver and another company. However, iRiver is the first company which bring it into mass production. It seems that the decoder is comparable to Philips’ decoder from the aspects of T10’s specification. It has extra long battery life (53 hours with AA battery) and supports image-viewing while music playback.

Samsung SA58450X01, ARM9 200MHz

Definitely, it is no doubt on the sound quality of iRiver’s products. However, the iRiver’s move seems tend to reduce production cost rather than improve product quality.

{ via iMP3.net }

The pictures were provided by anonymous tipster of Engadget. The pictures show that the Motorola phones synchronizes with iTunes 4.9, which has the same autofill menu options as the iPod shuffle.

It seems that it might be just an engineering sample as detailed specification is still unconfirmed yet. Stay tunes for more update!

{ via Engadget }

The company also annouced the retail price of this model. The price tags are 24,980 Yen (approx US$224) for 512MB version and 29,980 Yen (US$269) for 1GB version. It seem reasonable for this cool babe!

{ More U10 pictures }

{ iRiver Japan }

It is reported that the iRiver T20 is available with 4 colors, which silver for 256MB, red/blue for 512MB and goldish for 1GB. With 2 hours charge of the built-in 220ma Li-on battery, it can play up to 15 hours.

The detailed specification is as:

• Storage capacity: 256MB/512MB/1GB
• Dimension: 58 X 26.5 X 14 (mm)
• File system: FAT16
• Supported OS: Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP, Mac OS 9.22 ot later, Mac OS X 10.1.4 or later
• Interface: USB 2.0
• Frequency Range: 20Hz~20KHz
• Headphone Output Power: 14mW + 14mW
• S/N Ratio: 60dB
• Supported file formats: MP3, WMA, ASF, OGG
• Display: 3 lines LCD (128×48), 4 Levels Grayscale

The new version iRiver Plus 2 that will be bundled together with T20. Here is the interface of it!

{ via The Earlyadoter’s World }