Music player maker iRiver released the Clix MP3 player a week or 2 ago. We were all set to ignore it as being merely an incremental improvement to last year’s U10, until we saw that the Clix is now CNet’s top-rated MP3 player.
CNet gives the Clix a rating of 8.7, which makes it about 5% better than any other MP3 player, including the iPod…at least according to CNet. The reviewers especially liked the styling and the buttonless user interface to Windows Media Player 11. CNet also thought highly of the device’s integration with the soon-to-be-available MTV Urge music download service. They even went so far as to say that the device is ‘close to perfect’ – strong words indeed!
Clix costs $199.99, has 2GB of storage, a 2.2 inch QVGA screen and the battery lasts for up to 25 hours. iRiver characterizes the Clix as a multimedia player, supporting music, photos and video, but the video frame rate is only 15 fps.
It will be interesting to see how much market share Microsoft/MTV/Urge/Clix takes away from Apple/iTunes/iPod.
iRiver Clix – product website
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I’ve felt that way about a lot of products/movies/etc. in the past: I was all ready to ignore them when suddenly they become big hits!