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Some Hot New Portable Music Players Just In Time For Christmas

by bhoughton on July 9th, 2007

It may be July, but the folks who bring us cool devices to listen to our music on are already plotting their strategies for making sure that we spend our hard earned Christmas cash with them.

We’ve got some insider scoop on what you can expect in your stocking this Christmas:

• Microsoft’s Zune player has yet to hit its stride.so you can expect the computer giant to throw lots of cash and new features at consumers to get them to interested. Zune utilizes wireless technology (WiFi) to share and download songs and rumors have Microsoft enhancing those capabilites and perhaps adding wireless gaming and maybe a phone.
• Slacker is a newcomer that plans to deliver customized radio streams to a portable device via both sattelite and wi-fi. Think of its a personalize XM or Sirius satelite radio. Pretty cool if they can pull it off. The device will also store and play your personal music collection.
• Apple’s iPod always keeps their plans to secret but we’re sure they’ll unveil something cool. And by Christmas lines for iPhone will have calmed down and some of the bugs worked out making this a good time to look seriously at this cool media phone.
• The Wi-Fi-enabled Sansa Connect allows users to stream radio and download subscription music from the Yahoo Music Unlimited service directly to the device. A Rhapsody enabled device is likely up next.

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