Digital Home Thoughts: Tis The Season to Clone iPods

Not to be outdone by Creative's efforts to copy Apple's iPod, an Asian hardware company has developed a nano knockoff that looks so close to the original they are literally indistinguishable from one another. Well, indistinguishable phsically, but not so in other ways. This MP4 nano, lists a very different (and impressive) feature list. 256MB of internal memory (yawn), support for MP3, WMA, WMV, ASF, WAV, AMV, built in FM radio, voice recorder, eBook reader software (.txt files), and a photo viewing app. All in all this quite a sweet media device. Too bad this product will never come to market once Apple's attorneys are made aware of its existence.