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The Mystery Gadget

Posted May 19, 2005 1:51 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: A call for an open media gadget by frazier
Parent article: A call for an open media gadget

Oh, OK...it's an iRiver H340. A nice device, but frustrating because it could be so much nicer.

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The Mystery Gadget

Posted May 19, 2005 3:58 UTC (Thu) by bk (guest, #25617) [Link]

The Rockbox project is working on Free firmware for the H1xx series of iRiver players, hopefully they'll support your H3xx model too pretty soon. Other than the screen (color on 3xx, 2 bit greyscale on 1xx), the architectures are very similar.

Of course I agree with the theme of your article; we wouldn't need to wait for volunteers to hack free alternatives if the devices were free and open to begin with.

The Mystery Gadget

Posted May 19, 2005 6:51 UTC (Thu) by edomaur (subscriber, #14520) [Link]

It could also have been a Cowon iAudio. Ogg, FM, 40GB, USB2, etc. But the user interface has been ultra-botched. Slow boot and astonishingly counter-intuitive interface.