07/25/2006, 4:20pm, EDT

Tuesday, July 25th

DMC unveils iPod nano competitor

Digital Mind today unveiled its new line of portable media players featuring complete podcast capabilities and software, which stand to compete with Apple's iPod. DMC is offering its credit card-sized iPod nano-like player with 4GB of storage, a color display, photo viewing capability, recordable FM radio, and voice recording capability in either black or white. The device is priced at $130, and is "half the price of the inferior iPod nano," according to Jim Collier, DMC's president and CEO. "Our other podcast-enabled portable media players start at less than $50. [...] All of our products are podcast-enabled and are bundled with Applian Technologies Replay Radio software so that our customers can experience the rapidly evolving world of podcasting seamlessly."

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Elektrix

Only for Christians?

07/25, 5:06pm, EDT

Didn't expect it from the news story, but the actual site is pretty heavy on the idea of using this thing to listen to audio Bibles (specifically for Christians, as well). They seem to only mention the uses Christians would have for this player...

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Also.....

07/25, 5:10pm, EDT

According to the store, this thing is .67 inches thick (no wonder they don't show any side profile views of this). The iPod nano is 0.27 inches thick, and even the 5G iPod is .4 inches thick. Comparing this player to the Nano seems like a joke.

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dpaanlka

way to be

07/25, 5:44pm, EDT

of course another pathetic rip-off. copying the general layout, but replacing the fit and finish for crappy plastic buttons and chunkier build..

yeah, this is really going to be a nano killer

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TheBum

inferior is the word

07/25, 5:50pm, EDT

I'd definitely use the "inferior" word, only I'd apply it to the DMC device's interface. My hands and wrists hurt when I think about trying to navigate through thousands of songs with those buttons.

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jdonahoe

only weighs 6 ounces!!

07/25, 5:59pm, EDT

the 30 GB Video Ipod weighs 5 ounces.

I think that website link is a separate group. This one had more spec info:

http://www.digmind.com/

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ZinkDifferent

'podcast enabled' ???

07/25, 9:27pm, EDT

What does 'podcast enabled' mean? They say this word a lot, but I don't think they know what it means.

It can play AAC podcasts, or H.264 vidcasts? I didn't think so.

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srswart

Return Policy

07/26, 12:02am, EDT

DMC's return policy is pretty restrictive. http://www.digmind.com/customer_support/policies.html#WarrantyPolicy

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