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iRiver U10... 8GB through 1-inch hard drive?
comment: 19 | Monday, July 25 (2005) 08:37AM | Posted by Robert Sinke
We speculated about the possibility of iRiver's U10 appearing in high-capacity editions a while ago, and guess what we found today: a template page for the 8GB U10. No price being mentioned over there yet, but the webshop is also offering the "regular" 512MB & 1GB editions of the U10... what's the point in plunging random figures and numbers in there, right?

The page mentions a 1-inch micro-hdd being used, which could trim the price down to bearable levels (iRiver was said to consider the use of flash memory for the high-capacity versions as well). Given the fact that the 2GB version has also popped up already, and costs about 279 Euros ("available in August")... 8GB worth of flash memory would probably be "a tad" too expensive . Also, this 8GB thing is a bit thicker in size than its flash mem-based counterparts - 69 x 47 x 21 mm vs 69 x 47 x 16mm. Still compact enough, I guess.

No indication on release date, unfortunately.

UPDATE: an anonymous user has brought it to our attention that the webshop has recently added an estimated release date for the 8GB version... "October", that'll be next October then.

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Fluidity

Comments: 190
 		Jul 25 (2005) 09:24AM  

An 8GB version of that might be pretty cool, the lower capacity ones aren't really going to be worth it to me really but almost 10GB in something this cool looking would be pretty tempting.



JrezIN

Comments: 70
 		Jul 25 (2005) 09:40AM  

Now I'm interested!
Can they use a standard USB2 port too?



Anonymous

Guest
 		Jul 25 (2005) 10:29AM  

anyone know if there any disadvantages to flash memory over HD-based memory (apart from price) at the larger end capacity?



Parijizzle

Comments: 58
 		Jul 25 (2005) 10:40AM  

Slower transfer transfer speeds with some flash memory.



Ehhhhh

Comments: 40
 		Jul 25 (2005) 11:58AM  

I am really excited about this product... however my wallet isn't.



chicubs

Comments: 915
 		Jul 25 (2005) 12:20PM  

Wow, iriver may have a hit on their hands.



Anonymous

Guest
 		Jul 25 (2005) 01:15PM  

As long as it doesn't end up as crappy as the m:robe 500, I might pick up one.



jet_fighter00
Location: California
Comments: 148
 		Jul 25 (2005) 02:17PM  

U10, is... just... so... cool! Must resist buying these little flash DAP's.



farscape2

Comments: 91
 		Jul 25 (2005) 02:20PM  

8 gigs is more like it, when I first heard about this player I thought it was awesome, untill I saw the memory specs... but 8 gigs... that's a start at least



Michael
Location: New York City
Comments: 2786
 		Jul 25 (2005) 02:29PM  

U10 is definitely the best thing i've seen in a while. It's going to be crazy expensive though.



dd

Guest
 		Jul 25 (2005) 09:27PM  

dd



someone

Guest
 		Jul 26 (2005) 01:12AM  

THERE IS a release date posted (at least potentially).. is OKTOBER (can't you people read German!?)



tonywalk

Comments: 3
 		Jul 26 (2005) 06:10AM  

Don't know where you saw October but the PDF releases in both English and Deutsch both say mid August. Mind you, they also say the 2 Versions are 512mb and 1gb, whereas the specs pages on both English and German sites say 1gb and 2gb .



Robert Sinke

Comments: 1221
 		Jul 26 (2005) 07:13AM  

They updated that only recently... after I posted the news anyway. Sneaky Germans .



JrezIN

Comments: 70
 		Jul 26 (2005) 07:41PM  

R U Crazy> I remember looking some screenshots of U10 before and the player didn't had a standard USB2-mini connection. But I maybe wrong... can you point somewhere showing the standard connection? That'll be great!



ev4rmore`

Guest
 		Jul 27 (2005) 07:01AM  

wat r you trying to say? sony`s not that old... buh it is true that samsung is fully rockin` the jap`s arses...
go samsung, go iriver.


JrezIN

Comments: 70
 		Jul 27 (2005) 11:53AM  

...anyone (human, not trolls)?



Vigiz

Guest
 		Aug 12 (2005) 01:32AM  

I wonder how much more it will weigh compared to the standard flash U10? Any thoughts?

Wouldnt want to look like a vulture after having it around my neck... And speaking of neckband, i havent seen where you attach that yet....



lester

Guest
 		Sep 02 (2005) 10:52AM  

mm just wonderin whether i shuld get this u10 8gb or the psp any1 wiv any ideas?? psp or u10??



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