Thursday, October 25, 2007
Wireless Media Player Head to Head
Posted by Chris Gohlke in "HARDWARE" @ 08:00 AM
"It seems like an obvious idea: with so much music available online, why do you have to tether a media player to a computer to get content? Questions of battery life and copyright protection have dogged OEMs' attempts to make and sell wireless players and Microsoft's attempts to offer legal music sharing over wireless with the Zune haven't fired the market with enthusiasm. The iPod Touch offers WiFi Web browsing but the only music you can download wirelessly is new purchases from the iTunes store. Toshiba has wireless players for the Japanese market but so far only Archos and SanDisk have products for North America (the Archos 605 WIFI and the Sansa Connect). So are they in the vanguard of a new trend or is there a reason most players plug in to load up?"
Check out the reviews of these two offerings from Archos and SanDisk to see the kind of wireless features the Zune and iPod SHOULD have.
Check out the reviews of these two offerings from Archos and SanDisk to see the kind of wireless features the Zune and iPod SHOULD have.
