{"id":160,"date":"2004-06-07T17:44:50","date_gmt":"2004-06-07T22:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2004-06-07T17:44:50","modified_gmt":"2004-06-07T22:44:50","slug":"yet-another-ipod-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/07\/yet-another-ipod-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another iPod Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two and a half years after Apple introduced the wildly successful iPod<\/a>, Creative Labs has announced yet another attempt to catch the iPod: the Zen Touch digital music player.
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\nThe Amazon.com product description<\/a> falls all over itself in praising the new media player…<\/p>\n

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Palm-sized and pocket-friendly, Creative’s Zen Touch digital music player is a treat for your eyes as well as your ears. And–with features like touch-sensitive navigation, 24-hour battery life, light weight (under half a pound with battery), and a staggering 20 GB\/10,000 song capacity (64 kbps WMA)–the tiny unit leaves little room for wondering if it’s right for you.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Did you catch that parenthetical remark? In market-speak, “under half a pound” almost invariably means “we engineered the weight down to a few hundredths less than 8 ounces.” Now, I don’t know about you, but every ounce matters for something that is “pocket-friendly” – and therefore likely to be in my pocket.<\/p>\n

On the positive side, the tradeoff for the 41% weight penalty over the iPod is a whopping 24-hour battery life. If it even approaches half of that it’s going to collect some devotees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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