iRiver Gramophone Concept
iRiver has come up with concept product that will cater to consumers that are really really old people who like to kick it old old school. At IFA, the company presented the concept gramophone speaker (shown above) attached to an iRiver Spinn. The speaker can be plugged into existing headphone jacks, giving that authentic gramophone feel to your modern device. Although it is not the most attractive speaker, given the number of ’steam punk’ devotees out there iRiver just might be on to something here.
iRiver UNIT2-S Communications Device Concept
Another new iRiver project being shown off is a simple multimedia communications device dubbed UNIT2-S. This device has a lot of attractive functions with 4.3″ AMOLED touch-screen display, 30GB hard drive and Li-Polymer battery. It can work as a video phone, digital photo frame, web browser, FM radio, flash gaming rig, SMS/MMS receiver, and audio / video player with DMB television tuner (shown below).
iRivers R1 DAB Radio Conept
iRiver’s R1 DAB radio concept that is equipped with internet functionality, DAB, and FM radio or audio streaming from a PC or local storage. The audio is delivered through a pair of 2W stereo speakers.
All in all very impressive. Although these products remain nothing more then concepts it is not difficult to see the UNIT2-S becoming reality, even the gramophone speaker might have a chance to see the light of day. Another fine demonstration of iRiver’s growing ability to innovate.
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