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By Richard Menta 4/24/06 A few years back when I was reviewing the Neuros MP3 portable it came with a service called HiFi, short for Hear it, Save it. HiFi would identify the songs the unit recorded from the FM band (through some form of fingerprint technology) once you connected it to your PC and the Net and then populate that info into the player. It worked fairly well for popular songs, but the services library at the time was still limited and had difficulty with more obscure music. Anyway, MusicMarker offers a service somewhat similar to that and they have now released their first portable to take advantage of it. |
 Venzero |
The Venzero One is an 8GB Microdrive-based player that offers such now standard features as FM Tuner, voice recording and plays tunes in the Play MP3, WMA, WMA DRM and WAV formats. The Venzero One sports a 2" color TFT display to view pics and videos, the latter which the unit can handle if it is in the AVI format similar to the early Archos PMP units. The player comes in at 3.8 x 2.3 x 0.55-inchs and weighs in at 3.4 ounces.
The Venzero has its own integrated file manager called Shareport, which allows users to share files with other USB devices without the need for a computer. The unit is available in June for $289.
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