Are You a Slacker? October 1, 2008
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Are you a Slacker? or an I-Podder? Later this month, Slacker introduces it portable digital music player and the questions are already coming. Is it an iPod? Is it an old-fashioned transistor radio? These are just some of the questions the Slacker portable digital music player will have to answer when it hits U.S. stores this month in time for the lucrative holiday season.
Owners of the more than 160 million iPods out there no doubt love their sleek digital music players and their favorite music. But even favorite music gets old, and that’s where the new Slacker G2 comes in.
The $200 Slacker is a new Web radio-enabled player whose makers hope will go one better than the iPod by helping music fans to update their songs while on the go — and for free.
Here’s how it works: Users pick from a variety of pre-programmed and personalized stations on the Slacker website (www.slacker.com), ranging from those that play classic jazz to ones that play the latest indie rock hits.
They can then save their favorite stations to the Slacker — about the size of a small deck of cards with a 2.4-inch color screen — by linking to their PC either via a standard USB port or by a wireless Internet connection.
The Slacker G2 comes in a 4GB version that carries 25 stations, or around 2,500 songs, with around 1GB of personal storage space for MP3 audio files. There is also an 8GB version that carries 40 stations, or 4,000 songs, has 3GB of personal storage and sells for $250.
WiFi access makes the device particularly elegant since it refreshes your player with new music for each station saved on the player every time you connect. Once an updated station is saved, users can skip ahead on songs, or save the ones they like to a personalized station on the Slacker player.
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