my new toy
My old Jornada 548 Pocket PC finally died the other day, so this meant I had to do some upgrading on some of my digital devices. I must confess, my old Joranda has served me well over the years. I picked it up for a sweet deal back in the day when I was working at Staples in Saskatoon. I earned credit for product knowledge from the HP website, combined with the free keyboard that Staples was throwing in I got the whole deal for about $80; that was back in 2001.My primary use for the old Jornada was as an electronic organizer (it had Pocket Outlook, which is great), and as a word processor. The keyboard function was great for taking class notes. Fortunately, I have recently acquired the use of a laptop, so I don't have to worry about being without a word processor in a history class. However, I am missing the most recent use that I had for the old Pocket PC: listening to audiobooks.
For the past few months I have been a subscriber at http://www.audible.com and I have enjoyed listening to audiobooks (especially when I was delivering newspapers), but also when I am waiting for the bus or when I am cooking or doing some of other stuff around the house. I have seriously been missing the audiobooks ever since the Jornada died, so I started looking for
a replacement. I found a great buy at Futureshop (which is a terrible thing to say if you have ever been an employee at Staples) on a 1 Gig Sankdisk MP3 Player for less than $125.Part of what makes this preferable to something like the iPod shuffle is the digital display, and the price of course. I just picked my new toy up today, and I am looking forward to getting my audio locked and loaded.
posted by Jason at 10:45 p.m.
2 Comments:
I remember the day when you got your Jornada - that was sweet.
Enjoy your MP3 player - 1 Gig is quite huge - can you also use it to store PC files with that thing?
The Sandisk 1 Gig runs about $120 Canadian, which is cheaper than the 512 MB iPod Shuffle. Plus, the Sandisk has a display, which is huge.
I picked up a shuffle a couple of months ago and I returned it after two days. It might be good for listening to music, the iTunes software is very cool, however on more than one occassion it lost its place in a large section of an audio file (6+hrs) and it was very difficult to find the spot again because it doesn't have a display. Additionally, the search feature does not accelerate, so it takes a very long time to search through a large audio file.
There is one disadvantage with the Sandisk: it doesn't have an internal rechargable battery, like many of the new MP3 players right now. For that reason I almost picked up one of the new Sony players, some of them can charge up 3 hrs of playback time after only 3 mins plugged into a USB port - now that is sweet! The only thing that held me back from picking up one of them was the fact that they are not yet compatible with Audible software.
Post a Comment
<< Home