Olympus M:robe 500i Review

Ron Harris from the Associated Press reviews the new Olympus M:robe MP3 player/digital camera and says its basically just a 'shiny brick'.

Quote from the review:

“When you converge lackluster media delivery into one device, you essentially get a shiny brick.

Olympus thinks consumers want a 1.2 megapixel digital camera (with no zoom and no flash) controlled by a color touch-panel screen. Olympus also thinks you’ll want to mix some of your images together with music and watch a slideshow on the palm-sized screen with all the fingerprints you’ve just smudged on it while taking the photos.”

Ouch, looks like the m:robe got slammed hard. Maybe thats why you will be hard pressed to find reviews of this player on the web.

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