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2GB iriver clix is now Official
comment: 19 | Monday, May 15 (2006) 04:55AM | Posted by Michael
Is it just a renamed U10 or something different? Now you can be the judge, since iriver officially posted the player on their site. We were the first to leak info on this player, although many of us weren't too impressed with the similiarities to the U10. With these new pictures of the screen, there does appear to be some changes made to the GUI. The player is officially retailing for $199.99 and can even be ordered right now. This price is set competitively with the Ipod Nano, but offers a lot more bang for your buck.

FEATURES

• 2GB Capacity
• Ultra-bright, 2.2” color display
• MP3, WMA, and Ogg
• Plays video (MPEG4 simple profile, 15fps)
• Plays downloaded games (Macromedia Flash)
• Built-in digital FM tuner
• Integrated voice recorder
• Text Viewer
• Up to 25 hours of battery life (28 hours on the U10 series)


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Thanks, designfabulous
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estat

Comments: 67
 		May 15 (2006) 05:16AM  

4GB for $249 and then we might be getting somewhere.



Thebassness
Location: In a crappy little place called duluth,ga
Comments: 168
 		May 15 (2006) 05:51AM  

Yea seriously bigger capacity! But im still tempted to get this the u10 wa samazing........i wonder why the battary is 3 hours lower though



Michael
Location: New York City
Comments: 2786
 		May 15 (2006) 05:53AM  

Most likely because the now playing screen has album art on it.



PeterDLai
Location: San Diego/Los Angeles, California
Comments: 149
 		May 15 (2006) 05:59AM  

Holy crap. I hope CNET isn't right:

"Unfortunately, the U10 outperforms the Clix in practice as well; while the older player achieved an amazing 31.5 hours of playtime (music only) in CNET Labs' tests, the Clix squeezed out only 16.3 hours in preliminary testing."



Roger767

Comments: 206
 		May 15 (2006) 06:19AM  

HAHA all these clix lovers said this was gonna be better then the normal u10. Seeing these specs nothing has changed. Only the Price is now reasonable 200 bucks for 2 GB just like the iPod Nano. But with more features (compared to the Nano)



Michael
Location: New York City
Comments: 2786
 		May 15 (2006) 06:20AM  

Umm Roger the GUI is changed. The original person who told us about the Clix said it looked like the U10, but the GUI was built from the ground up and he seems to be right about that. So it does look better than the U10.

[ edited May 15 (2006) 06:23AM ]



Roger767

Comments: 206
 		May 15 (2006) 06:24AM  

Why change the GUI wasnt it already good and easy??? Seems to me like a marketing trick to gain attention to a good flash player that got neglected by the succes of the Nano.
Dont get me wrong I like the Clix. The 1gb u10 costs 210 euros here in the Netherlands, hopefully the Clix will change some price-points.



Dominic
Location: Ireland.
Comments: 2396
 		May 15 (2006) 06:27AM  

ah 15fps, for real, sickening!!!.....i'd say this, in two-three years of development and technological advancements could be my perfect dap. then again you could say that about any dap.



Michael
Location: New York City
Comments: 2786
 		May 15 (2006) 06:29AM  

The U10 sold fairly well here believe it or not. A good amount were sold at the Best Buy's here in nyc. With WMP11 and Urge coming out they saw room for improvement with the now playing screen which is why there is now album art and a rating system. Apparently MTV worked directly with iriver to make sure the GUI worked flawlessly with the Urge music service. There is no coincidence that this player is launching the same time as WMP11.



Roger767

Comments: 206
 		May 15 (2006) 06:31AM  

thnx for the explanation ssj!



chicubs

Comments: 915
 		May 15 (2006) 09:08AM  

What can I say? Its awesome, like the U10, but, come on, the major complaint with the U10 was capacity, and all they do is bump it up one gig. Dissapointing...very happy to see the competitive pricing, though.



Roger767

Comments: 206
 		May 15 (2006) 09:19AM  

I just installed wmp 11 and im very disappointed. The interface is slick. But the way wmp organizes your music is chaotic, even while all my id3 tags are fine. It even ignores your id3 tags and goes on the net to add its own. Hopefully your not stuck with wmp when transferring music to the iRiver Clix.



gimmix

Comments: 7
 		May 15 (2006) 09:28AM  

i'll buy me an e10 then ...



Lacene
Location: Standing Here, Confused By Your
Comments: 827
 		May 15 (2006) 09:33AM  

speaking of WMP11, the screen background on the clix looks suspiciously like the background on the install wizard for the WMP11....coincidence??

U10's are now selling on amazon.com for $164 & change....I thought they were considered expensive...was there a major price drop??

the clix's are selling at bestbuy.com for $229, but are already shown as 'backordered'.....



Lone

Comments: 973
 		May 15 (2006) 10:18AM  

That Bestbuy price is higher than the MSRP (199) and the actual price it's going for on various webshops (195-205).



derwersei

Comments: 15
 		May 15 (2006) 02:27PM  

clix sounds like a children's toy to me, u10 was better imo...
well i won't buy it anyway if i don't get real ums/msc but crappy mtp instead



MrCookie989
Location: San Luis Obispo, CA
Comments: 33
 		May 15 (2006) 02:31PM  

Note: Clix now supports flash lite 2.0 (from what I've gathered, the U10 only supports 1.1)



Allen
Location: Dub Vee Ooo
Comments: 1511
 		May 15 (2006) 06:33PM  

Ogg vorbis is nice, but a higher capacity would make it nicer



Design Fabulous

Comments: 1038
 		May 15 (2006) 07:25PM  

Told you guys that it had a new interface.



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