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Ainol V1000 with NES emulation
comment: 10 | Monday, October 16 (2006) 04:54PM | Posted by Lone
Speaking of game-playing PMPs, another one popped up today, courtesy of IMP3.

Said unit is the slick-looking V1000 from Ainol, and in addition to AVI and MP4 video support (at 30 frames-per-second), the device seems capable of playing NES, SNES/SFC, and SMS ROMs on the go. Don't care about classic games and video? Ainol's player does MP3, WMA, and FLAC audio. Unfortunately, 512 MB and 1 GB are the only listed capacities, though the built-in SD slot sort of remedies the issue. At least the display seems good enough: 2.5" with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels (identical to the Creative Zen Vision:M in those stats).



Important stuff like rated battery life is unavailable at this point; Ainol doesn't even have the V1000 product page up yet.

LINK (IMP3) via Engadget via The MP3 Players

Thanks, sdsdv10
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musicman

Comments: 338
 		Oct 16 (2006) 05:31PM  

Is that pronounced 'anal'?



Lone

Comments: 973
 		Oct 16 (2006) 05:37PM  

That was the first thing I thought of when I read about it.



pecker

Comments: 501
 		Oct 16 (2006) 05:46PM  

I h8 the name love the look lol

button layout of 4 under each other would be crap 4 snes thou wouldnt it?

id buy it if it was hdd neway



dap_pad

Comments: 519
 		Oct 16 (2006) 05:48PM  

Even these cheapo Asian DAPs are playing FLAC, why can't the other big time companies support it? I like the design, it'd be cool if the wheel stuck out a little bit and you could use it as a control wheel...
[ edited Oct 16 (2006) 05:49PM ]



timmins

Comments: 270
 		Oct 16 (2006) 06:19PM  

pretty innovative, the design allows the player to be used horizontally and vertically, in both cases it wouldn't LOOK out of place either.



Steve

Comments: 1197
 		Oct 16 (2006) 10:38PM  

Is that pronounced 'anal'?


I was gonna say that until I read the first two posts. Ah, what the heck: Is that pronounced "anal"?

button layout of 4 under each other would be crap 4 snes thou wouldnt it?


Yes, it would. That's why they put them on top of each other instead.

Kinda cool though.

[ edited Oct 16 (2006) 10:57PM ]



kadajawi

Comments: 51
 		Oct 17 (2006) 01:04AM  

Why these players all seem to play FLAC but not Ogg Vorbis? Still looks interesting though.



enCORe_XTG

Comments: 317
 		Oct 17 (2006) 02:24AM  

...
sort of engrish name, love the looks, the name's not, least better than Gemei (pronounce ghay-may) ...


Mikc

Comments: 43
 		Oct 19 (2006) 12:59PM  

Well then, lemme burst your collective anal bubbles.
The thing is most probably called AYE-EE-NOL or A-EE-NOL.
(as in "Hey, we golf")

Though it still sounds like ANAL bwahahahahahaha!!!



adam917
Location: North America
Comments: 12
 		Oct 27 (2006) 11:56AM  

Cool thingy. I like that ability to play FC/NES, SFC/SNES, & SMS ROMs on the device. I could load severeal hundred or thousand ROMs on a single flash card and play plenty of classics.

How much does it cost & how long is the battery life?



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Step666
Apple, perhaps, is a bad example for the reason Pondy points out.

But the point in general stands, most people don't want to carry round multiple devices, especially not two that are near-identical in terms of features.


In other news, the Eels are amazing live.

Pondlife
largely=larger

See atrocious.

Pondlife
cab=can.

Damn my typing sucks atm.

Pondlife
Well that was partly in what I said

But the Touch comes in largely capacities too doesn't it?

For the touch and iphone I think we cab assume a fair amount of ibuyanythingfromapplesyndrome.

bloodycape
From what I can tell from visiting mac forums, there are quite a few users with the Touch, and the iPhone. Partially for the reason Pondlife said. Not to mention it the case of Apple the Touch cost less for more space(v. iPhone).

Pondlife
So you only have to deal with the one interface but have a music back up on your phone for when mp3 player battery goes. Cheaper than buying two phones.

Well hopefully.

Step666
You wouldn't buy a Touch if you had an iPhone though, would you?

So, if you have a high-end Android handset (which a number of people here either do or are looking at getting), why would you then buy a second device that gives you the same functionality sans the phone element?

bloodycape
It is partially the same reason why the Touch is doing well.

TheDarkSide
Not everyone wants a phone, so what's so hard for some of you to comprehend?

Step666
I don't see why you'd buy either of them over a Galaxy S (or one of it's sister devices).


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