What Ever Happened to the Nokia MP3 Player?

Ipod, Ipod Shuffle, SE Mp3 Player... yes these are all new.  Seems like mobile manufacturers are beginning to play a role in todays portable music upcomings.  But what ever happened to the Nokia HDR-1?  Nokia's MP3 player was out about 2 years ago, before all of this portable music craze took off.  People were still carrying around these huge portable cd players.  Now that the music craze has gotten a bit of a blast, the HDR-1 is gone.

For those that have not seen or heard of it, its not the Nokia 3300 music phone that I'm talking about.  Nokia made a cool device which was tiny and portable, operated with a mmc and also functioned as a headset but did very well as a stand-alone mp3 player. 

Its not that I don't think the ipod isn't cute or anything (come on, it comes in pink!), its just I know how much time in the day that I have.  4gb of music is cool, but its not something that I would need. 

The HDR-1 originally came with a 32mb mmc, but now with the larger mmc's available that means more storage space.  Supported audio formats are AAC and MP3, and it also has a radio, however, I rarely use it.

The newer headsets that I've seen being announced by Nokia seem to allow listening to your phones FM radio and/or MP3 player via the headset.  But the HDR-1 had all of this built in already.  Lol, I was using a Nokia 3390 when I got this headset, but it is compatible with any of the phones that have the 2.5 jack. 

I do hope that their will be a future revamping of this device, since I can't seem to understand why its gone in the first place.

Comments

[brian]

its hideous looking!

[escaflown]

hey. sup?

im one of the happiest man than on the world cuz
i got one of this cool mp3 playa.

greetz
e.f.

[Allan]

Hi Darla,

I think you samrt enough, I see so many problems answer by you. Would you lik eto help me solve my problem reagrding HDR-1.

I cant use my player, the display olny show blinking "NOKIA" and same with the light.
But after I connected it to PC via USB, it works.
I can use the feature, and play the song, use the volume button and everything is normal.
But, if i took the USB from the player, suddenly it turned to the blinking mode :)
So, I only use if the player connect to PC.
Please help me....i dont have any idea to solve it. Coz nokia care in singapore and indonesia couldnt help me too.

Please help me,

William Allan Pramudyanto
allan_pramudyanto@hotmail.com