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Gacme GM-X600: Something old, something new, something borrowed + some glue
comment: 10 | Monday, October 31 (2005) 07:49PM | Posted by Robert Sinke
Why come up with anything yourself if you can combine two of the most successful flash DAP concepts of them all into one package? Chinese Gacme - Generic Abbreviation for a Company Making Everything, or whatever - already ripped off Samsung's YP-F1 and Sony's NW-E4/5 series... so it was about time that they came up with something "original". And so, the GM-X600 saw the light of day. On the drawing board, that is... can't imagine this being real already.

The fine gentlemen over at Gacme chopped an iPod shuffle to bits and pieces, kept the navigation wheel and glued some cube-like player (we instantly associate anything resembling half a cube with MobiBlu's DAH-1500 for no reason, such an unfair world it is) on top of it - tadaaa... another DAP in the bank.

This thing supposedly has the following features: MP3 / WMA / WAV support, Voice recording, Built-in FM tuner + recorder, USB2.0 mass storage compliance, OLED display: 2 colors (right... now look at that picture... uuuh, does not compute), resolution: 128 x 64, Built-in flash memory capacity: 128M / 256M / 512M / 1G, Playback time per charge: over 7 hours, Weight: 32g (including battery).

Sounds like a worthless battery performance to us. Not that it's very likely that any of us will ever encounter one of these things in person, but it kept both you and ourselves busy for another 21 seconds, didn't it?

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Allen
Location: Dub Vee Ooo
Comments: 1511
Oct 31 (2005) 07:58PM  

Aguh why arent they dead?! I thought the memory price and supply crunch, (because of the nano) destroyed the kind of companies that make daps like this?!




Robert Sinke

Comments: 1221
Oct 31 (2005) 07:59PM  

only the weaker ones. now ponder as to what "weak" would have to imply if stuff like this keeps crawling through the woodworks.

Although I must admit, I kind of like the concept art picture thingy




Kam3

Comments: 53
Oct 31 (2005) 08:09PM  

that abbreviation is classic! lol




Jamin7489

Comments: 55
Oct 31 (2005) 08:17PM  

alright 7 hours playback!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice





themushroom

Comments: 87
Oct 31 (2005) 10:46PM  

This will be the iPod killer.

Mark my words.





supertoad

Comments: 25
Oct 31 (2005) 11:17PM  

isn't there a panasonic player that looks kind of like that?




supertoad

Comments: 25
Oct 31 (2005) 11:20PM  

found it






dan325it

Comments: 58
Nov 01 (2005) 01:25AM  

One word -- riduculous.




dan325it

Comments: 58
Nov 01 (2005) 01:25AM  

One more word -- ridiculous (spelled correctly this time)




blessingx

Comments: 27
Nov 01 (2005) 09:33AM  

You sure it's inspiration isn't Donkey Kong and Maytag?

Anyway at least its form factor is thinner than the MobiBLU. Maybe it will work around your neck or in your pocket this time.




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