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Subject: Re: Comparison

Re: Comparison

From: Hamish Mackenzie <hamish_at_mackenzieoz.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 07:34:17 +0400

Hi Sarah

Buy from an EBay store rather than an individual. I have had no problems
doing it this way.

HTH

Hamish


Email or MSN : hamish_at_mackenzieoz.com

Skype : mishu70
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarai" <bucc7465_at_bellsouth.net>
To: "'Glenn at home'" <GlennErvin_at_cableone.net>; "'Rockbox'"
<rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 5:42 AM
Subject: RE: Comparison


> I'm looking for an Iriver. Amazon makes you request from sellers and the
> minimum price is $300. I'm very leery of buying from Ebay.
>
> Sarai D. Bucciarelli
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se]
> On Behalf Of Glenn at home
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 7:21 PM
> To: Rockbox
> Subject: Re: Comparison
>
>
> I think they will play WMA in the future, except for the ones that are
> protected from unauthorized use.
> Audible books need to be converted with something like GoldWave. Some
> Archos units have FM and the Lithium batteries. But the iRivers are
> smaller, lighter, and the battery life is about twice
> the time, up to 16 hours.
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sarai" <bucc7465_at_bellsouth.net>
> To: "'Rockbox'" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 5:48 PM
> Subject: RE: Comparison
>
>
> Why not WMA?
> Can they play Audible files?
> FM radio? Cool!
> Thanks,
>
> Sarai D. Bucciarelli
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:rockbox-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se]
> On Behalf Of Ronald Teune
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 4:52 PM
> To: Rockbox
> Subject: Re: Comparison
>
>
> http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DeviceChart
> If you're blind, I think there are just four important differences: 1
> The iriver can play more music formats (ogg, etc. but not wma when
> rockbox is installed) 2 The iriver has a built-in lithium battery 3 The
> iriver has got radio 4 wired remote (with LCD) There's another one for
> 300 series: some models (Europe models IIRC) support USB On The Go so
> you can copy files from an external hard disk or USB stick.
>
> Ronald
>
> On Monday 06 March 2006 23:40, Sarai <"Sarai" <bucc7465_at_bellsouth.net>>
> wrote:
>> Hi:
>> What is the differences between the Iriver H 140, H 340 and Archos 20
>> GB recorder? Besides the hard drive space I mean. I'm thinking of
>> buying one of the Irivers and I have an Archos. I need to be sure that
>
>> Rockbox talks on both Irivers, right?
>>
>> Sarai D. Bucciarelli
>
>
>
>
>
Received on 2006-03-07

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