Smallest MP3'er...

[Intrigued]

http://www.mobibluamerica.com/dah1500.html

I feel like rolling some dice just now...

[Corey]

What a terrible shape. I don't think some of these manufacturers "get it", i.e. THICK = BAD. The best thing about the shuffle is that it's thin. At a full inch thick, this one's not going to fit anywhere discreetly. Even in your front pocket, at one inch thick, you're going to notice it's there. Also for sports it's akward, if you wipe out against a shuffle, no problem, but if you wipe out against an inch-thick cube you're going to get hurt no matter which corner/side you impact on. It's a charlie horse waiting to happen.

[Intrigued]

Though a good argument I would counter with the fact that a long slinder unit could "bend" and thus break in one's pocket, upon sitting.

So, a cube (less than an inch. 1 inch = 25.4 millimeter) may be just right for the music-in-ya-pocket folks (me) out there.

Well, it's a choice that we can make at least.

[Corey]

Naw, you can't bend a shuffle.

[Intrigued]

That's just it... it would break (not bend)

[Corey]

Not a chance. Check one out sometime they're sturdy. Pretty much no matter how you collide, it's going to shunt to the flat. These things are built superbly, very little danger of breaking one. On the other hand no matter which way you collide with a one-inch cube, it's going to hurt, that's a 100% guarantee.

Accidents aside, put a one inch cube of something in your front pocket, it's not a comfortable size or shape. Or even for wearing around your neck like a shuffle, because the cube is always going to bounce around and will never lay flat. Sounds like a tooth clacking good time.

Can you imagine wearing a little cube around your neck and someone throws you a football and it hits the cube? OUCH! Imagine if it hit the corner of the cube? Double OUCH! That's a two week bruise at best. By contrast if a football hit your shuffle you'd be tagged but fine because it would distribute the impact. Worn around your neck there is literally no way for a football to drive the corner of a shuffle into your sternum, whereas the opposite is true of a cube which is probably going to catch you with a corner/edge 2 out of 10 times.

A cube is a non-optimal shape for a portable MP3 player, so is a sphere. The best is the "stick of gum" shape adapted by the shuffle followed closely by the credit card shape of iPODs. The stability of the flatness is essential for sports, an MP3 player which bounces or swings like a cube/sphere is useless for sports. At least a sphere bounces predictably, a cube is a wildcard, every now and then you get a corner in the sternum or a whack in the tooth.

I remember catching a few lift tags in the teeth back when I used to ski a lot and it's no fun. We used to put the lift tags on our zipper tabs but then when you zipped up your jacket and put up your collar the thing was flapping around by your nose. By halfway through the season you'd have a massive wad of 20-30 tags waving around your forehead like some sort of exotic truncheon out to clobber you. The faster you ski, the more devious its strategy becomes, until finally at full speed the wind turns it into E. Honda's "Thousand Hand Slap" from Streetfighter.

Look, all I'm trying to say is that they should make MP3 players which try and clobber you from time to time. That's all...

[Intrigued]

Think on this...

My cellphone (Motorola v220) is the same thickness of this MP3 cube shaped player and my cellphone has never given me a problem with such thickness!

[Worm]

Gee, and all this time I was thinking size didn't matter

Apparently it does.

[Intrigued]

Gee, and all this time I was thinking size didn't matter

Apparently it does.

As long as you can still bend it and it comes back () then you are still good to go! Whaaaa? I'm talking about MP3 players...