Friday, September 30, 2005
Disney Mix Stick MP3 Player
Posted by Chris Gohlke in "HARDWARE" @ 06:00 AM
"Disney has its own iPod contender, the Mix Stick MP3 player, for kids of all ages. The Mix Stick comes with 128MB of built-in memory and is expandable to 1G to store data and music files. It is expected to sell for $49.99. The MP3 players also feature an SD/MMC card slot for as much as 1GB of storage, or approximately 500 songs. The Mix Clip memory cards carry full-length albums from Walt Disney Records and are compatible with computers, cellular phones and other devices."
The toy MP3 player thing has already been done (and failed). While this seems like a better implementation, I think most kids would prefer to have the adult version rather than a cutsied-up and dumbed-down version. Plus, while memory cards have gotten cheap enough to make this method of distribution possible, the Mix Clips seems like a solution to a non-problem.
The toy MP3 player thing has already been done (and failed). While this seems like a better implementation, I think most kids would prefer to have the adult version rather than a cutsied-up and dumbed-down version. Plus, while memory cards have gotten cheap enough to make this method of distribution possible, the Mix Clips seems like a solution to a non-problem.
