UPDATE September 16, 2011:
First, I want to say thanks to all people who love and support FiiO, especially those friends who give us precious advice during the process of developing FiiO X3. But at the same time, I want to say sorry to all friends, because development of X3 has been frozen.
There are several reasons of freezing the development of X3. First: the supplier. FiiO X3 using master chip and relative Firmware which are supposed to be provided by our suppliers ,but the supplier cannot give us qualified software within the limited time . Though we have granted them some days extension, they’re still unable to give us any predictable schedule. Secondly, the system is not so delicate in the present time. Take these reasons into consideration, we decided to freeze the X3 now , really sorry for that, hope all friends can understand us.
During the process of developing X3,in one hand, We want to express our thankfulness to all those who support and interact with us,
on the other hand ,I want to express the apologies to all. We don’t perform all promises because half of the resources of project X3 not all controlled by us. We will learn from this lesson. Before making a commitment, we will be preparing for everything and will not let all dear friends down.
As we all know these are normal problems that will be appeared during the development of projects. But this problems can not make us stop our plans on the development of DAP. Now we try to find more new resources and open platforms such as Android in order to develop more satisfactory products.
ETA: Indefinite.
Price range: $150-$170 :D
"About our HD DAP, it will not expensive, and will be different to any current DAP ! but will have most special feacture which listed in preview replies!
I will post the outlook and main features before the end of this month!"
1, the size is about the same as E7, so it can really put into your pocket;
2, With line out/ coaxial digital out; I can find any other DAP have both output! of course there are Headphone out;
3, WM8740; depend on our E7, it is good enough to most of you! and in fact, it is almost the best solution to balance the cost, performance, playtime and size;
4, FiiO dock so you can dock it into our E9, we learn from Apple, it is a user friend design we learn from Apple!
5, Hardware key control!
6, folder/files browsing!
7, Not a ordinary solution like rockchip,
8, 320*240 TFT display so we can involve in some kind of music library like artist, album, cover and style!
We don't want to make a expensive DAP , but we also don't need to make some cheap DAP, what we wants to make is a total innovation, high quality, high performance,and affordable , slim DAP ( of course it can not compare with iPod or Sansa ).
Anyway, it is under developing, although the hardware is decided but we can still adopt lots of your request, for example about the Gapless playback, but we need to find out whether we can do it !"
"OK! just some updating!
1, We will put the gapless in our X3, and there may have a switcher option in the setup menu!
2, The X3 will not come with a earphone or headphone, you may need to buy one for yourself!
3, Of curse, I guess, there will have lots of combo, like X3+E9, X3+E11, X3+ E??(LOL, seems we need to develop a DAC AMP with coaxial in ), and X3+TF"
No internal memory; MICRO SD (Not SD.) cards are used, and SDXC is probably compatible, but nothing firm yet. (This is a guess by me and not an official statement.)
"We just decide to make a small change to our X3, so it will be more slim and a little longer! I hope we can put a large battery inside so the playtime can over 10 hours to 12 hours or even more! And X3 will support 192k/24b FLAC, WAV, APE. * 192k/24b need to be confirmed! In fact, we are carry a working sample but it is handwork prototype so the key is unreliable! but it do play 192k/24b music!"
Battery life: about 10 hours.
So, why would I get this over a J3 or something?
1. Coax/line out
2. Better (likely) DAC section, and likely HP out.
3. 192/24 support
4. Physical buttons, so operable in a pocket.
5. Seems to be affordable
Does none of that interest you? Then this is probably not the player for you.
Edited by Ishcabible - 9/28/11 at 10:33pm
