Quick Review of the Rio

Alex Tosheff writes "Hey, came home today and my Rio MP3 player was waiting for me on the doorstep! It's smaller than I was expecting (about 2x the size of a pager but weighs only 1/2 as much). It comes with a grey parallel pass-through with a pcmcia-type connection socket on top. It really feals like a toy :) Although the pictures have shown a fold-up pair of headphones, it really comes with the ear-bud types and a note explaining the change. As for the quality, it depends of course on the bit-rate, but the songs (ahem) I own on my system are sampled at 128Kbps and sound way better than a tape. There is an interesting chart on the box thaty I will scan and post if anyone is interested..." Those buggers look pretty sweet. Still not enough memory, but its a good step in the right direction.