This post isn’t for the fiscally-challenged my friends, so look away now if the inside of your wallet hasn’t seen the light of day for a while. Despite looking sexy and no doubt sporting their usual high standard in sound quality the latest DAP from Bang & Olufsen, the BeoSound 6 will set you back six hundred big ones. I’ll give you a moment to get over the shock …. yes a DAP for more than an iPhone, what are they thinking? Well, quality over quantity as usual with B&O. Your $600 gets you a 4GB mp3 player with 40 hours of battery life, which talks nicely to both Mac and PCs. It sports a small 128 x 160 res screen that doesn’t play vid and comes with a slim fit leather case which conveniently hides the A8 earphones that come with the unit when not in use.

So what about the quality I hear you asking, well according to the blurb

Its superior sound performance rivals that of home audio systems. When compared
to other MP3 players, BeoSound 6 has a very clear and pure CD sound
quality, due to its high performance on signal to noise playback.

Hmm, whilst I’m sure the masses won’t be beating a path to their nearest B&O dealership to pick up one of these puppies, there will be B&O fans out there who’ll be happy spending the pingers on the unit. And just in case those fans do have more money than sense some hard-earned cash left over then they can grab the bluetooth headset EarSet2 for a snip at US$350 too.

If anyone out there does have one of these suckers then let us know if the quality really is worth six hundred dollars.

Source: PR News Wire

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This MP3 player from Walletex comes with 128MF and up to 2GB of storage space and it really might be the world’s slimmest mp3 player. Walletex has previously released a Flash drive, about the same size, that fits exactly into a wallet. This seems to be the idea with the new Walletex MP3 player. It’s so slim that can very well fit a wallet and at that size you don’t expect any display or any ‘useless’ functions, but you get a very compact and sturdy player that you can forget you’re carrying. I have no information yet about the lifespan of the battery but even with all the features removed I don’t expect anything extraordinary with a device this thin.

The Walletex Flash drive

The Walletex player uses a USB adapter for headphones and it plugs directly in the computer so it’s all easy to use. There is no pricing information yet but the “music on the go” lovers out there are sure to be interested in this thin gadget.

This review was possible due to OhGizmo! and I4U.

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