Flash iPod Mini Just Announced
Category: Apple/Mac OS...
Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2004 at 01:08 PM [GMT-6]

Steve Jobs is two hours into his keynote speech at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, and he's just announced Apple's entry into the flash-based (as opposed to teeny hard drive) portable music player market:

iPod mini: 4GB of memory. 0.5 inches. Sells for $249. The size of a business card. Uses the same user interface as the "big" iPod. Solid state scroll wheel. Buttons have been added right to scroll wheel. FireWire and USB 2.0, either interface charges from the battery, connects via a dock-like connector. iPod mini also comes in colors: Gold, blue, pink and green anodized aluminum. Apple expects to ship in February in US, elsewhere in April. From MacCentral's live keynote coverage

Way cool. Flash-based players are the Next Big Thing.

Update: Here's the official scoop. However, now that the final specs are published, I find that the iPod Mini is not flash-based after all. It's just a smaller hard drive. I'm now officially confused about the flash announcement...

Update #2: Daring Fireball has a good analysis of the market dynamics for Apple's newest iPod.

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Steve said that it competes with the flash based players. You can buy a flash-based player for $200 with 256m, or you can buy an iPod for $250 with 4gig. "It will be the best $50 you ever spent."

The keynote stream is still availible.

Posted by: Phelps at January 6, 2004 11:44 PM

I tried for 30 minutes yesterday to connect to the live feed and finally gave up, relying instead upon the very confusing "live" report from MacCentral. Judging by other posts and forums, I wasn't the only one confused by the reports. Thanks for the clarification.

Posted by: Eric at January 7, 2004 06:37 AM

I don't care about the iPod, but I sure did want that 4GB flash card!

Posted by: Scott Chaffin at January 7, 2004 09:21 PM

but I sure did want that 4GB flash card!

Yeah, especially if I could get it for $249!

Posted by: Eric at January 7, 2004 09:27 PM
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