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iRIVER release Firmware Upgrade which
makes it a USB Drive
iRIVER release Firmware Upgrade which
makes it a USB Drive
02/01/2005 09:43 PMThis is one of the smartest moves that iRiver has made in a very
long time. No longer will you by default have to use their proprietary
application to get media onto the device. This opens the way for the
iRiver MP3 players to be used easily with Windows Media Player. I know
several Podcasters are jumping for joy.
I was able to sync my Podcast subscriptions very easily with
Windows Media player. The following link takes you to the IFP-700
series firmware download page. [iRIVER
Firmware Upgrade 700 Series]
iRiver Adds Ogg To Audio Player Firmware
iRiver Adds Ogg To Audio Player Firmware
12/24/2003 09:18 PMSesse writes "iRiver has just released firmware updates for its
iFP-300T and iFP-500T flash memory-based audio player series.
According to a news story on ...
Cry Me An iRiver: Firmware Delays Upset
Fans
Cry Me An iRiver: Firmware Delays Upset
Fans
07/07/2004 02:41 PM
There's a rumbling in the
iRiver support forums, and depending on who you ask, it's either the
overblown groaning of a few dissatisfied customers, or the sound of
thousands of unhappy users forsaking iRiver for the likes of Archos,
Creative, and (lord help them), Apple. The issue is one of firmware,
and a lack of updates for the H Series (specifically the iHP-100) line
of hard disk players. In April, iRiver promised
firmware fixes for the players, like on-the-fly file deletion and
playlists, as well as a fixed shuffle mode and gapless playback. But
then in May, the firmware was delayed<
/a>, and since the original June release date for a second
firmware release has come and gone, some users are getting very
upset.
Rockbox Plans Open Source Firmware For
iRiver Gear
Rockbox Plans Open Source Firmware For
iRiver Gear
09/08/2004 03:45 AMiRiver Preps Linux-based Media Player
iRiver Preps Linux-based Media Player
06/11/2004 07:21 PMTwo Nice New Players from iRiver:
iFP-900 and H300
Two Nice New Players from iRiver:
iFP-900 and H300
05/18/2004 07:31 AMiRiver has two new music players coming up, both of which sport nice
looking color LCD displays. The silver iFP-900 has a 1.2-inch LCD (the
two units in the pictures probably definitely aren't to scale), 40
hour play time with a rechargeable battery, real time MP3 encoding
from line-in, integrated...
iRiver H300 Series Player Pricing
iRiver H300 Series Player Pricing
05/28/2004 11:00 AMDPReview has a little more
information about iRiver's upcoming H300 series players, with much of
the same information we reported previously, but this time with a
price: ¥47,800 (~$430) for the H320 20 GB version and ¥59,800
(~$540) for the H340 40GB version. That's more expensive than the
iPod, even, but you get a color screen, 16 hour battery life, and a
device that meets the USB On The Go specification (USB Host,
basically) so that you can connect almost any USB device to the unit
and transfer files back and forth without a computer. (Thanks,
Junki!)
Rea
d [DPReview]
Related
Two Nice New Players from iRiver: iFP-900
and H300 [Gizmodo]
iRiver H300 Series Officially Announced
iRiver H300 Series Officially Announced
09/22/2004 04:24 PM
We mentioned the new iRiver H300 series launch a
little bit earlier today (just a link), but we thought we'd give them
a big US welcome with this healthy, near life-sized image. With the
launch of these new 20GB and 40GB players with color screens, 16 hour
battery life, and the ability to played both free and restricted WMA
music (and OGG Vorbis, nerds!), plus all the usual iRiver tricks, like
a built-in FM receiver and real-time MP3 encoding, well... things are
finally starting to look up in the hard disk player market, and we're
glad to see it.
The H300 players should be available for purchase both on iRiver's
site and retail in early October for $329 (20GB) or $429 (40GB).
Press release after the jump.
iRiver T20 and T30
iRiver T20 and T30
06/22/2005 01:58 AM
In
addition to the attractive U10, iRiver has also
announced the T20 and T30 [pictured left and right, respectively],
both of which are not anything special in the 'function' department,
but have fairly unique designs. The T30, especially, looks as if it
could be holding the power core that drives a giant mecha, as long as
that power core was a AAA battery. The T20 happens to be the first
iRiver player with a sliding USB plug, a feature of which we are
fans.
iRiver
U10, T20, T30 introduced in iRiver 2005 Lanching Show [MisticRiver
via I4U]
iRiver IFP-790
iRiver IFP-790
07/07/2004 11:06 AMSympatico Jul 7 2004 3:39PM GMT
iRiver T20
iRiver T20
06/24/2005 04:03 PM
I use my Shuffle
regularly, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't cheat on it with other
flash players. The iRiver T20 is kind of like that cool young thing at
the office, all flash and excitement. You just want to pop out its
sensuous USB port again and again while the poor, morose Shuffle sits
around the house waiting to yell at you when you walk through the
door. "I have a lanyard," it screams to you as you hit the fridge for
a beer. "I have a lanyard!"
The T20 includes an LCD screen (!!!), line-in MP3 recording, and
plays Ogg files. Priced at $99 for 512MB and
$139 [UPDATE - It's Pounds, baby, Pounds, not
Dollars. I don't know. Multiply by two, essentially, to get dollars.]
for the 1GB model, I'm thinking that if you're considering a flash
player, you may want to consider one of these instead of that
plain-Jane Shuffle.
iRiver gives iPod shuffle a wake-up
call [T3]
Auto disk mount without user login
causing disk mount failure
Auto disk mount without user login
causing disk mount failure
03/28/2005 10:01 AMI had the OS X disk automount option enabled so that my external
FireWire disks were mounted when no user was logged into the GUI.
However, it created a problem of somesort in that none of my disk
images would mount any more....
More iRiver PMP and PMC Details
More iRiver PMP and PMC Details
05/19/2004 10:42 AMIgnoring the fact that the squared-off iRiver PMC-140 has a better
looking case than the PMP-140, why would you ever want to purchase
one? Here's the formats the PMP-140 plays: AVI, ASF, MP4, MPG / DivX
3.x, DivX 4.x, DivX 5.x, XviD, MPEG4 SP, Advanced SP, MPEG1. Here are
the...
iRiver H10 Official
iRiver H10 Official
12/19/2004 03:01 PM
iRiver officially unveiled the H10 today in Korea,
the 5GB hard disk-based player that looks a lot like a mini Creative
Zen Touch (or Zen Micro, even). It's got pretty much the same specs as
everything else in this segment, except notably the 1.5-inch screen.
It'll be available on the 22nd in Korea for around $340. If they want
to make it in the American market, let's hope they drop the price a
little before it gets here.
iRiver
H10 is out! [DAPreview]
New iRiver PMC-100 Pictures
New iRiver PMC-100 Pictures
07/29/2004 01:10 PM
DAPreview found
some new hi-resolution shots of the upcoming iRiver PMC-100, the
Microsoft-based Portable Media Center that is the cousin to the
non-Microsoft PMP-120/140. It looks considerably different than the
original, more slab-like mockup we'd shown you, but it does look a lot
more practical to use. It also looks like it is probably just a
remolded bit of plastic that fits over the same hardware that powers
the PMP-1xx series players.
I still like the old design better, but I also know which one I'd
rather hold in my hands for two hours at a time.
Read
- Fresh pics of the iRiver PMC-100 [DAPreview]
Related
More iRiver PMP and PMC Details [Gizmodo]
More Hands-On With the iRiver PMC-100
More Hands-On With the iRiver PMC-100
09/02/2004 08:03 AM
SorobanGeeks got their hands on the iRiver PMC-100
series, the Microsoft Portable Media Center player that's expected any
day now in stores. They also had a short sit down with the Vice
President of iRiver's parent company, who seems to have a real hard on
for Microsoft in the upcoming portable player wars, because the "PMC
OS will work in total harmony with the future operating systems of
Microsoft." I suppose that's true in a sense, but I still think that
until someone can provide plug-and-play functionality, be it Big M or
someone else, none of these players are going to be widely adopted.
They're just too big of a pain to use.
You know who should make a portable media player? TiVo.
Read -
iRIVER Press Conference... 1่res photos live de leur PMC !!!
[Akiba.SorobanGeeks]
iRiver N10 First Impressions
iRiver N10 First Impressions
08/06/2004 10:01 AM
SorobanGeeks passes on some
first impressions straight from Korea of iRiver's new wearable flash
memory MP3 player, the N10, as well as some pictures that are probably
stock photography but that I hadn't seen; this picture showing how the
headphones double as a necklace was especially interesting, I thought.
You guys know how I feel about flash memory players -- I like them,
smaller is better, but I just hate paying so much for so little
storage -- but on up side the prices for the N10 are at least
somewhat more reasonable than some players in the past -- a 1GB
version should sell for around $440. If that's still too painful just
wait. The hardware to decode MP3s is a fraction of the cost and the
price of flash memory should continue to fall for a while.
And you know what's making me come around on these flash players?
Cool designs like pendants. That's what they should have been doing in
the first place. If I'm going to get reamed for a 1GB, it should at
least look cooler/more interesting than an hard disk player.
Read
- N-10 En Direct de Seoul ! [Akiba.Soroban]
Related
iRiver N10 OLED Flash Player [Gizmodo]
iRiver PMP-140 (P)Reviewed
iRiver PMP-140 (P)Reviewed
07/26/2004 10:55 AM
Soroban Geek's Portable Media World got their webbed
hands on a pre-release version of the iRiver PMP-140, the upcoming
personal media player that is the one that isn't the
Windows-branded Portable Media Center (that's the PMC- models).
Although the review is a little heavy on pictures and a little light
on opinion, they seem fairly impressed with the device. It does look
nice enough (from a feature perspective, at least; its case is ugly as
sin), and I've got fairly high hopes for this one. DRM-free means, if
nothing else, greater ease of use as a rule of thumb.
Read -
Teasing Preview iRIVER PMP-140 (UK/US) [PMW.SorobanGeeks]
Related
Sony HMP-A1 VAIO Video Pocket Review [Gizmodo]
More iRiver PMP and PMC Details [Gizmodo]
iRiver IHP toolkit 0.3.0
iRiver IHP toolkit 0.3.0
04/20/2004 04:54 PMA utility for the iRiver IHP series.
iRiver IFP-790T - 2 Thumbs down!
iRiver IFP-790T - 2 Thumbs down!
12/24/2004 12:46 PMI am using the iRiver IFP-790T as a backup recording device when
recording the Geek News Central Podcast. Of the 18 shows produced we
lost 1 due to a PC crash and I vowed that would never happen again. So
as I record the show on the PC the iRiver MP3 player which doubles as
a voice recorder is my failsafe mechanism.
Today on the Daily Source Code with Adam Curry he mentioned he owns
nearly the same device, and drew some of the same conclusions I did.
The thing sucks. It's a great recorder but you have to use iRiver's
proprietary interface that has DRM management to get files on and off
it. Windows does not recognize it as a external drive and it records
in some proprietary format.
I really wonder who these companies have on staff testing their
products, don't they have a clue on how the real world works. I guess
that is why the Apple iPod is as popular. Someone just needs to figure
out how to record at a high bit rate on the iPod. [iRiver]<
/p>
iRiver H10 Review Excerpts
iRiver H10 Review Excerpts
12/22/2004 01:36 AM
The first review I've seen of the iRiver H10 has popped
up at Club iRiver, a site which, for all its positives, happens to be
in Korean. For those of us that don't speak that tongue, Mistic River
has excerpted a few of the highlights from the review, including word
that the front area of the H10 is "nearly about the size of a business
card." I can get with that, especially with a lovely color screen.
iRiver
H10 - First Look [MisticRiver]
iRiver H320 Reviewed
iRiver H320 Reviewed
06/21/2004 09:06 AM
SorobanGeeks got
their hands on one of the new iRiver H320s, the 20GB hard disk MP3
player with a color screen, USB Host capability, radio, and
microphone. It looks excellent, and besides some complaints about the
quality of plastic used for the casing, performs as advertised. The
USB Host functionality means the H300 series devices can serve as
portable hard drives for digital cameras, and I suspect that feature
combined with the color screen will make these players a big hit for
photographers. They do say the remote is sort of useless since it
doesn't have an LCD, but I tend to disagree. Like the iPod's remote, I
find that simple remotes are more than useful enough for their main
purpose, which is to skip a track or two and to pause your music
without pulling out the new device. On the upside, if you need an LCD
remote, the units from the iHP120 (an older iRiver player) will work
with the HP300 series just fine.
Read
[Akiba.SorobanGeeks]
iRiver U10 with D-Click System
iRiver U10 with D-Click System
06/22/2005 01:58 AM
iRiver is showing off new products, including this U10, with
a very interesting "touchscreen" interface. I put the "touchscreen" in
"quotes" because the D-Click system is not a traditional one like a
PDA, but instead a screen over some buttons, which can be clicked by
pressing down. So really, it's less advanced than an actual
touchscreen, but I still like the idea, even with the inevitable
finger grease.
I'm not looking forward to the capacity, though, as the U10 is
listed to be available in sizes only up to 1GB. That's a shame mostly
because the U10 will also support MPEG4 and Flate Lite, as well as
audio files. It's pretty, though, but that might just be my love of
test patterns shining through.
iRiver
U10, T20, T30 introduced in iRiver 2005 Lanching Show [MisticRiver
via I4U]
iRiver U10 Poses with CEO, Model
iRiver U10 Poses with CEO, Model
06/22/2005 01:57 AM
It's either feast or
famine. New shots of the U10 prove that it is much cooler than
originally thought. This little bugger plays video and is about as
small as a package of playing cards. It is so cool, in fact, that it
might just be my lust item for the next week or so until someone comes
out with the combo Hello Kitty/beer maker/LCD video player/back
massager. That would then become my favorite item in the world.
Images [Aving via i4u]
Related
iRiver U10 with D-Click System
iRiver iFP180T @ XtremeNews
iRiver iFP180T @ XtremeNews
07/12/2004 04:05 PMiRiver PMP-120 Shipping in July
iRiver PMP-120 Shipping in July
05/26/2004 12:20 PMIGN has a write-up on the PMP-120, the portable video/media device
from iRiver. Apparently, its sister product, the Windows Media Center
PMC-120 won't be out until later this year, but the Linux-based
PMP-120 is expected to be out fairly soon....
iRiver N10 OLED Flash Player
iRiver N10 OLED Flash Player
07/23/2004 09:21 AM
Korean MP3 fabricator iRiver
has announced a new flash-memory-based pendant-style player with a
16-shade OLED display. Dubbed the N10 (INTENZ!), the unit will be
offered in 128MB, 256MB, and 512MB options. Apparently, the N10
already sells in Europe for around $360 (yeah, no way, right?). Flash
players are extremely neat in function and size, but pricing like that
is just painful.
Read - Product Page (Korean) [iRiverKR
via I4U]
Combo CD-A/V Player Unveiled By TI,
iRiver
Combo CD-A/V Player Unveiled By TI,
iRiver
09/07/2004 12:01 PMTechWeb Sep 7 2004 4:01PM GMT
iRiver H320 (Almost) Hits The Market
iRiver H320 (Almost) Hits The Market
09/22/2004 10:30 AMiRiver PMP-100 Series On Sale (Maybe?
Soon? We Hope?)
iRiver PMP-100 Series On Sale (Maybe?
Soon? We Hope?)
08/03/2004 10:50 AM
iRiver's PMP-100 series
portable media players have gone on sale today via the iRiver e-store,
with other online retailers to follow later in the week. Two models
are available for now: the PMP-120, with a 20GB hard drive; and the
PMP-140, with an eight-million amazing awesomes drive (or 40GB, if you
want to get all technical). Prices are $500 and $600, respectively
(ouch!).
For the record, if portable video is in your sights, these are the
units from iRiver you probably want. Instead of being tied to Windows
Media Center (that's the PMC-100 series), they'll pretty much play
whatever you decide to throw at them without a pesky transcoding. Of
course, now that I've written this, I still don't see them available
for purchase on the e-store, no matter what iRiver's press release
might say.
Read -
Press Release [MobileMag]
Read - e-Store
Page [iRiverAmerica]
Related
New iRiver PMC-100 Pictures [Gizmodo]
iRiver PMP-140 (P)Reviewed [Gizmodo]
Update: So MobileMag informs me that iRiver informed them that
the PMPs are quite literally stuck on a slow boat from China. Maybe
you should have held back on the press release then, huh?
doodlebug
