Talk:N3:Misc Thoughts
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[edit] The N3 is already obsolete, do this instead
Hard disks are 20th century technology. Flash cards are $15/GB retail at newegg.com today and will be under $10 by the time the N3 comes out. Please do a flash player! Bag the N3 if you have to, I can't see why anyone would want to buy it. The flash player should have a CF slot and an SD slot, and run on one AA battery, NOT lithium ion. Two slots would allow up to 12GB of storage (today, 8GB CF card and 4GB SD card), or 24 GB using 16GB+8GB cards that have already been announced. With both kinds of slots it would satisfy users of both formats (I have several CF digicams and a Marantz PMD660 CF recorder); and with two slots, it would allow copying from one slot to another.
Forget the FM transmitter and song database junk, that stuff is useless, just use Rockbox or something similar.
If desired, the player could have a built-in nimh charger that you'd activate by pressing a small button within a few seconds of connecting the player to a USB port. By default (i.e. unless you presss the button), it should not charge the battery, so you don't charge a non-rechargeable battery by accident. And it should do some voltage analysis to make sure AA battery in it was really an nimh cell.
Another feature I've been asking for on dapreview.net: the player should have built-in noise cancellation, for listening on an airplane. There would be a mic on the player that measures the low frequency ambient noise, and mixes it out of phase into the earphones with the music. There would have to be some profiling for the freq response of the individual earphones, since people have different preferences about what earphones they like, and the earphones all need different equalization for the noise cancellation signal. I think I described on dapreview how this should work. If I can find it, I'll paste it here. Basically when you buy new earphones, there'd be a UI feature that lets you manually null out the noise in a bunch of separate frequency bands. Then you'd save the profile for those earphones in the player's memory. I thought of this while on a plane trip with my Sandisk Sansa M260, where listening at normal volume levels wasn't very nice, because of the background noise. I've thought of buying noise-cancelling headphones, but why not just build it into the player? I don't understand why nobody does this. Phr 04:38, 12 August 2006 (CDT)
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Sorry,but 12 gb isn't enough - 24gb isn't enough - i don't see the N3 having a top model under 80gb Whats wrong with an FM transmitter? -its a great little feature... What do you mean: "song database junk" we can hardly go by dirs...and its not a big job. Rockbox is more about getting something running, rather than something for a retail device.- Why not just buy an existing rockbox target? I like the sound of the USB charging. -though it has not been decided whether to use AA or Li-on batterys. I also like the idea of low frequency canceling in the player itself, but things would change by the earphones - some are basically earplugs anyway. I don't see it as a main feature, though if someone could figure out how to code it, neuros is very for the home coder ;).
