FlashTrax Digital Multimedia Storage and Player

[Pride Of Lions]

http://www.smartdisk.com/eWeb/smartd...FlashTrax1.asp

There's a lot to like here. It's not intended to replace anyone's PIM abilities, but as a media manager, it's pretty cool.

Things I like:

3.5" LCD
Hard drive (80GB!, WOW!)
Plays music, videos, reads .TXT files (eBook reader?), displays different photo formats
USB 2.0
Swappable battery
Software upgradable
Video-out capability
Adequate user-interface
Remote (!)

Things I didn't like:

Compact Flash (and Microdrives) only, no SD card support without media adapter
Kinda bulky looking (but since it's not intended as a PDA replacement, but rather a DVD player replacement, it's actually OK)
The implied geekiness involved with actually getting your money's worth in this product and ripping your DVD's to load up the hard drive. I can do it (now), but the normal end-user doesn't know how and thus won't truly see this product's value.

True technology here, big things getting bigger and small things getting smaller.
POL9A

via Tapland.