[ian]

There's a good picture of the Nitrus 4gb on Wired News (http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0...w=wn_tophead_3) (seen on Riovolution)...looks pretty good!

 

[D-EJ915]

That looks nice, is the price still going to be $250 in the US??...I still think support for all formats would be nice.

 

[mister__big]

The new Nitrus seems to be much better looking than Rio's previous offerings, but the non-symmetrical shape might not be comfortable to hold. Will it come in an actual case or in the same cheap draw-string bag like the Karma?

 

[austonia]

geez.... Rio has to jump on the iPod-white bandwagon. I'll keep my stealthy black Nitrus, thank ya

 

[ProFingerSk8er]

IMO the orginal nitrus looks better, just spray paint the thumbstick black

 

[TheMuffinMan_01]

i dunno, that one looks pretty damn spiffy.

 

[bong]

i'll have to agree that the plain, shiny black on the existing 1.5 gigger looks better. but i've read somewhere that the Nitrus 2 gen looks even better, so i'll wait.

 

[FrostyMMB]

By now everyone should assume that anything successful from Apple will influence similiar products from other techology companies. Like it or not, it should be expected.

 

[CrawlingEye]

I've always been partial to silver/black. I really like how it looks.

 

[lan]

I like the original (blank and red) because it matches my clothes and headphones

 

[ian]

Quote:

Originally posted by FrostyMMB By now everyone should assume that anything successful from Apple will influence similiar products from other techology companies. Like it or not, it should be expected.

That's funny. Who was the first company using the small 1" hard drives (cornice, now hitachi)? Rio, last summer with the 1.5 GB Nitrus. The 4GB Nitrus was even announced before the iPod Mini's (by a few hours).

It doesn't look white, it looks silver. I think the idea was to reduce the fingerprints that showed up on the shiny black 1.5 gb Nitrus.

 

[Hunterboy55]

That looks nice. Although i would hope that fingerprints don't show on the silverish part. Then i would like this better than the 1.5 gig nitrus.

 

[e-r0ck]

it doesn't really look anything like the ipod's white color... just like another color they made to differentiate between the 1.5 gig and the 4gig.

i dont really think they're copying apple's success with the color. i just think its similar so everyone assumes it was influenced by the apple.

 

[Skeeve]

personally I think a far closer match to that colour is probably the old rio500s colour, except that wasn't shiny.

 

[austonia]

i asked about new firmware at riovolution.com forums and UK Rio Engineer said this:

"Yes, there is new firmware in the works, going ahead for several releases that add many features (including some UI improvements).

Bear with us, it will emerge - some of the changes are pretty big (bigger than the "small" tweaks that have been happening to Karma) so there is a much longer gestation period, so to speak."