Hm. Go back in time and dig up that huge news post on Neuros' future. Included into that article was some optimism on the upcoming 442 model - which supposedly got its name from some muscle car. Well, Neuros has taken the next step in realizing their 442-dream, so we've found out. Mechanical 136.1 x 78 x 26.5 mm Impact resistant stainless steel housing Weight: 325g Display 3.6” Color TFT (320x240 resolution) Storage 40GB HDD I/O USB 2.0 high speed SD/MMC slot, mini USB slave mini B to A Headphone jack, A/V line in jack, A/V line out jack, DC jack Battery Rechargeable Lion battery, Up to 9 hours continuous audio playback, Up to 5 hours continuous video playback Supports MP3, ADPCM, WMA, AAC-LC Composite video output to TV: NTSC/ PAL Playback of MPEG4, DivX 3.11/4.0/5.0/, WMV v9 Video Recorder: MPEG4 SP with MP3 or G.726 audio or AAC, 30fps@640x480 resolution, MS ASF format, AVI format (Divx)

Ok... looks nice on paper, and it's going to be fully Open Source (supported by neuros)... but we've seen this thing pop up before. Most recently, we saw it at CeBIT. Austin already mentioned something about it in this article. Quote from that report, referring to the pictured player:

"We saw a very generic-looking PMP in a display window, which we stopped to ask to about. The company rep we talked to seemed to be the company owner as well, and he was very embarrassed about the whole thing. He said that it was only their first generation PMP, and that we really didn't want to see it.

A rebranded version of the original Sampo PXD1

We pressed on, so he reluctantly got it out and showed it to us, but he stressed that we really didn't want to buy it. "It's just like all the others," he said, "Not very good. You might want to come back after 1 or 2 more generations." So, we have to award this guy The Worst Salesman of The Show award, but we do appreciate the honesty."

And when digging up memories from last year... THIS news post popped up. That's right, same casing for sure... almost one year old. Hope Neuros manages to implement all kind of cool software features, next to the Open Source thingy. Pictured PVP will probably just be used as a basic platform... but it's kind of weird nevertheless.

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