iriver Takes T10 to 2GB

By Geoff Duncan August 15, 2006

iriver Takes T10 to 2GB

iriver has revved up its T10 portable media player: the diminutive units now sport a 2 GB memory capacity, and now offer direct support for spoken word content from Audible.com—and also ship with and offer for a free selected Audible.com book download.

The iriver T10 is a PlaysForSure-compatible flash-based digital media player offering up to 45 hours of music playback time on a single AA battery. The T10 supports music subscription services like Napster and Rhapsody, offers an integrated FM tuner and recorder, a voice recording function, and an integrated color display. The T10 works with MP3, WMA, and Ogg Vorbis audio files (and now with material from Audible.com, but, alas, does not work with AAC or protected content from Apple’s iTunes Music Store), and supports USB 2.0 for transfer to and from Windows XP PCs.

To promote the T10’s compatibility with Audible.com spoken content, folks who buy a 2 GB iriver T10 can select one of the following Audible.com titles as a free download:

1984, George Orwell
It’s Not About the Bike, Lance Armstrong
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
The Soul of Capitalism, William Greider
Talk to the Hand, Lynne Truss
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
a 12-month subscription to Scientific American

“iriver is committed to providing valuable features, content and services to our device customers,” said Jonathan Sasse, president of iriver America, in a statement. “We are thrilled to continue offering direct access to Audible’s impressive library selection of quality digital audio content including books, radio broadcasts, magazines, news and podcasts.”

The 2GB iriver T10 is available now for $149.99 at retail locations, via Amazon.com, and at the iriver eStore.

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