14 DAY TRIAL // There is not much to say about Bang and Olufsen, except that they are a major Danish company that designs and manufactures audio products. Their significant innovation in the industry was in 1925, when they've invented a radio that worked with alternating current, when most radios on the market were running on accumulator batteries. Today the company seems to resort to the people that are rather rich than smart.
Since then, the company is trying to keep up with the latest trend in the industry. This fact is proved by its latest addition on the company's portfolio, The Beosound 6 portable MP3 player. It uses flash memory and a color screen. The new player is planned to launch this summer.
The player is said to work on A8 earphones, that come in a specially designed leather case and a spicy 180 bucks price tag. It might look good, but as long as they're not professional, I couldn't care less.
Unlike the Beosound 2, version 6 does not use the SD cards, it just relies on an internal memory of 4GB. At a first glimpse, the player's interface resembles the one of the Samsung's YP-Z5 mp3 player.
Not to mention the design also takes after Z3. It measures 3.5" x 1.7" x 0.5" size and the battery is said to last 24 hours. It reveals a 1.8"64k color LCD and supports MP3 and WMA file formats. No FLAC, no nothing.
The annoying thing is that the insanely expensive 800 bucks a pop - "Yes, you got that right!"mp3 player will sport a single capacity of 4GB flash memory. If not, there is always the memory-less and screen-less Beosound 2 that retails for around USD 500.
All in all, all the attempts of the Bang and Olufsen company to go nano could be nothing but a copycat episode with a hilarious price tag and a rich but brainless audience. The rest is purely tech sophistication, without the "high" in it. This might just be envy!