.. which adorns the back cover of this week's U.S. News and World Report, claims 16hrs battry life, and has a LCD screen read-out that looks an awful lot like another little mp3 player we know (
the iPod). Even the controls are similar. Take a small package with LCD screen, implement some odd input device (in this case a scrolly wheel, in the iPod case it was the circular trackpad) along with your normal forward >> and back << buttons, your play/pause.. and kazaam - profit?
Microsoft, never too quick on the draw, is just going to let others
make the portables for them