Why not consider a phone / audio player combo? I always have to have a phone and refuse to carry and/or deal with the hassle of two devices. I have used both the treo 600 and 650 and love it. I'm sure there are lots of other alternatives phones as well.
On the plus side, you only have one device that does a lot. On the minus side, you have somewhat limited storage. What I currently use: Treo 650 Aeroplayer (free w/ogg decoder) Seido 2-in-1 headset I convert my bin/cue flac files on the fly to Ogg Vorbis with some custom perl scripts that I wrote (using a very handy utility called ACDIR which processes bin/cue files nicely). It takes about ~1 minute per CD to convert the files and copy them to my SD card. I do them in batches so I don't really care how long it takes. My 2GB SD card holds about 35 CDs worth of music (ogg at quality setting of 4). My Treo's battery lasts all day long (8 hours of listening + phone use) with plenty of juice left (30%). I really couldn't ask for a better device for me! Enjoy! George -- mrthreeplates ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mrthreeplates's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=565 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21370 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
