The MP3 Players

Ho, ho, hooo…. the white x’mas is coming soon. Have you order your x’mas present for your loving one? No? Let see some MP3 players that worth for every cent you spent!

1. Creative Zen Vision:M 30Gb vs Apple iPod 5.5G 30GB

Don’t limit yourself just look for Apple iPod. Instead, Creative Zen Vision:M may be a good choice if you want to play media in most of the formats! Though it doesn’t look that sexy as an iPod. It still do its job, plays pretty music and it is about $40 cheaper than an iPod.

2. Sandisk Sansa e280 8GB vs Apple iPod Nano 2G 8GB

Sandisk has just slashed the pricing of its Sansa e200 series. Sansa e280 8Gb is only $188 at Walmart! Fruthermore, with that such attractive price, you can get a Griffin black leather vizor for free. The new price is about $50 cheaper than an iPod Nano 2G 8GB!

With the extra money through these deals, you can spend it for second X’mas present or just get an extra pair for portable speaker like Creative Labs SBS Vivid 60. Hurry up, get your stuffs shipped on time

What you can do with these binder clips? A dock stand for your MP3 player, believe me. If you don’t wanna spend anymore money during the seasonal sales period, here’s a guide to make a dock stand for your MP3 player for less than $1 or maybe at no cost! All you need is 3 binder clips! Just like this…
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iFixit recently published a complete guide on how to disassemble the world smallest MP3 player - iPod Shuffle 2. All you need are just a spudger and a Philips screwdriver #00.

Well, let skip all the dissassembling process. What I want to know is what the heck inside this tiny thing!

On the top of its circuit logic board, you can see five button sensors, ARM chip and data cable ribbon. No idea about the ARM chip, but it has the number: 337S3300 844A N05WDK01 0642 ARM

The bottom of the board has a Li-ion polymer battery and headphone jack plug, which is most impressive part of iPod Shuffle 2. The plug is multi-modal and switches between USB, analog audio, and possibly power modes.
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If you are one of the Siren or ILO owner, you might be driven crazy about their crappy firmware. One of my reader has got it fixed with upgrading its firmware. He had left a solution on my old post (Siren MP3 Player: Q&A)

My Siren 512MB Mp3 player was caught in a continuous loop on boot up. I
contacted the support department and they sent me a link to the firmware
installer. After running the software my Mp3 player is functional once
again.

Here is the instruction for the fix:

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Get bored with the stock screen animation of your mobiBLU Cube? Guillermito has published a detailed step-by-step hacking guide of the MobiBLU Cube DAH-1500/1500i. The firmware hack allows you to modify the startup screen and also other animations within the Cube.

Looks interesting huh? Remember, hack the Cube at your own risk and don’t forget to make a backup copy of the original firmware.

{ Guillermito via AnythingButiPod }