Complete Guide to Android Smartphone Audiophile http://geeknizer.com/complete-guide-to-android-smartphone-audiophile Phones for audiophiles: 5 Android handsets with quality sound processors...

1 - we pay $699 for X7 (or enough of us) --> FiiO makes good profit 2 - we do not pay $699 for X7 (or not enough of us) --> FiiO makes loss So, this is not exactly a rhetoric, but rather a simple free market reality.

Why is that - simply because 'seller' (supply) is only one part of the equation. The other and equally important is the 'buyer' part of it (demand). According to this nice, simple and logical scheme of things, FiiO is 'seller' (they work in 'supply' part of the chain) - and we are 'buyers' (we...

I would not call 'paying full price for the desired product' any sort of 'entitlement', it is simply not true. Likewise, FiiO guys are damn lucky to have us as their customers, it kind of works both ways. Ditto profits.

You raise very good and reasonable questions. Perhaps, some of the answers may be found in this article: 10 technologies made obsolete by Android smartphones http://www.androidauthority.com/10-technologies-obsolete-android-smartphones-405956 Smartphones are like the Swiss Army knife of the...

I guess X7 should work with any wireless hard drive, not only Samsung, using either some Android file management app which supports Samba (SMB), or the Android app bundled with the drive (for Samsung Wireless drive, there's Android app imaginatively called Samsung Wireless, from Seagate...

Yes, one can always erase some old music in DAP in order to upload some new music... yes, one can always carry some more microSD cards... but, at some point some DAP users, who are forced to go through those related repetitive processes regularly (and not necessarily a small and insignificant...

I am very curious about what audiophiles in China say about FiiO X7, surely there must be some threads in local Chinese forums, dedicated to X7, similar to this one in English? Earlier in this thread I came across claims like 'X7 is for Chinese market', so logically the major target audience...

FYI: Google's Project Ara http://www.projectara.com | http://www.projectara.com/faq | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara Project Ara is the codename for an initiative by Google that aims to develop an open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones. Maybe at some point some...

Yes, James talked about it, and yes you repeated it more than I can remember - so what? Yes, China has the most people, and FiiO is based in China, and FiiO is interested in Chinese DAP market - but all that does not necessarily automatically provide the right answer to your last question...

You keep talking that X7 is designed/intended mostly for the Chinese DAP market, without actually providing any reason for such an extravagant move, albeit hypothetical. Then perhaps you can explain, why anyone can routinely see many FiiO products (including X1, X3 and X5) all over, available...

@olddude In my last posts, I talk more about convergence (which is, IMHO, a very interesting topic, closely related to X7), and less about mSATA (and even that more about m.2 SATA NGFF), but for some reason you only see and react to that magical word 'mSATA'. Again - I am not jumping on you...

I am not hinting - for that, I have no inside information from FiiO, to begin with. 'The discussion about mSATA has been put to rest' - apparently I missed something, 'put to rest' by whom, and why? (also, mSATA is on the way out, and m.2 SATA (NGFF) is on the way in, there are some...

'FiiO is very clear about the specs' - sure. 'FiiO is entirely open and truthful and clairvoyant about the final specs' - I hope not, after all this is market and very serious competition, to put it mildly. Productive or not to continue the discussion - not reason to get nervous, we are just...

HummingBoard i2ex http://www.solid-run.com/products/hummingboard/linux-sbc-specifications http://volumio.org/get-started I guess the official Volumio support for HummingBoard (from Solid-Run, makers of Cubox) is only a matter of time.

@headwhacker I only wanted to say, the more a producer ventures into some neighboring territory, the more his product will be regarded and perceived under that territory's angles/rules/practices, and compared to other products in that territory too. UPDATE, price comparison, roughly: FiiO X7 +...

Apparently, with the introduction of Android+apps in X7 audio player FiiO decided to venture deeper into the 'convergence territory', or to go iPod Touch way, so to speak.   But, in that smartphone/tablet/media player convergence territory there are already quite a few serious players, like...

If I understand correctly, this is the latest available to users list with FiiO X7 specifications (maybe with exception of 2nd microSD slot, which may be sacrificed in favor of some other components, like wifi, if I remember the related information from FiiO developers correctly): 01...

Just of curiosity, what if we take ALL of the wishes and desires of users in this thread into account, and produce some sort of 'portable reference DAP' or 'what that hypothetical all-inclusive X7 would be like, if I made it using the available components', delivering ALL of the desired...

@Mython I feel your pain, brother! However, even though the latest official information from FiiO development team might be disappointing to some of the potential buyers and users of X7, I guess it's not the end of the world.   Simply because there are some alternative solutions...

It seems to me that some of you guys confuse this fascinating 'X7, the Flagship DAP from FiiO' topic with some other, mostly irrelevant topics like 'the legality of file sharing' or 'how to be a good policeman' or 'my way is the right way' or 'shame on those non-paying torrenting bastards' etc...

You are forgiven   Metaphorically speaking -   Your point: 'I really need this many bullets in my gun, because there are that many criminals in the neighborhood'.   And my point: 'I do not need to justify the number of bullets in my gun to anybody, because we have 2nd Amendment'.   Yes...

Mython, you make pretty convincing argument, talking about Hi-Res music and the objective need to have more storage space in a modern audio player.   However, I do not feel the need to justify my music or other audio material choices, their size etc even before almighty FiiO.   Yes, Hi-Res...

  I beg to differ.   Portable device or not, with mSATA/m.2 memory options there is no such thing as 'limited physical space', not anymore.   When there is mSATA (or m.2) slot and support in audio player, the storage space finally becomes a non-issue, users can buy and use as many mSATA/m.2...

  If I were a FiiO decision maker, I would try not to make assumptions (like headwhacker and olddude do) regarding what users are supposed to do, in what way they are supposed to listen to their music, what their real needs are (as opposed to what they themselves think they are), how much space...