Flipster 128 MB Personal Multimedia MP3 and MP4 Player

Rating:
Summary: Decent, but you can do better
Review: The Flipster looks cool, pretty much like a clamshell cell phone. It works well, too, playing specially encoded video files (a conversion tool for Windows is included) as well MP3, WMA and AAC music files. You can also load various picture formats on the 2.5" screen, which is smallist. But seriously, this is really a half-cripped WinCE device, so for this money you might as well get a Pocket PC that has a built-in SD slot. For example, the Toshiba e755 has both SD and CF slots and can thus support up to 2GB of storage (or more in the future), and comes with wi-fi, AND is cheaper than the Flipster... and, of course, the e755 is a Pocket PC so it can do much more. If the Flipster were hard drive-based, it could be cool for my money. As it is, it arrives too late with too few functions.

Rating:
Summary: Decent, but you can do better
Review: The Flipster looks cool, pretty much like a clamshell cell phone. It works well, too, playing specially encoded video files (a conversion tool for Windows is included) as well MP3, WMA and AAC music files. You can also load various picture formats on the 2.5" screen, which is smallist. But seriously, this is really a half-cripped WinCE device, so for this money you might as well get a Pocket PC that has a built-in SD slot. For example, the Toshiba e755 has both SD and CF slots and can thus support up to 2GB of storage (or more in the future), and comes with wi-fi, AND is cheaper than the Flipster... and, of course, the e755 is a Pocket PC so it can do much more. If the Flipster were hard drive-based, it could be cool for my money. As it is, it arrives too late with too few functions.