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This is the most fun I’ve had on the computer all day. Time to plug in the headphones, put on the Trance Music and turn up the volume on the ONDA MP4

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With doom and gloom coming to us in every direction, those clever folks at ONDA have the perfect gadget, the ONDA VX747:

to beat those credit crunch blues. Simply plug in and play and the world of failing banks and simply fades into the distance as your favorite MP3s & videos take over. It’s large 3″ touch screen blazes true colours in 16:9 cinemascope and it’s 8GB multi platform processor plays practically any file you wish to throw at it - no more incompatible files! And the best ’till last bit: It’s £30 cheaper than the much smaller iPod Nano! Beat that Steve Jobs.

Gadgets! A few years ago a mobile phone used to be size of brick, and now they are on par with Star Trek communicators, and even the cheapest models come with video playback. It’s common now to be on the streets of London and see almost everybody talking on their mobile! Even in cafe’s loving couples can be seen sitting together enjoying an intimate conversation…not with each other, but with a friend on their mobile.

And as the next generation of mobiles keeps on developing, lead by the iPhone, is there really any need for an MP4 Player? Well, yes of course there is! Firstly come on guys, why have just one gadget when you can have two. Also no matter how great the iPhone becomes, do you really think that Apple are going to let it kill the iPod?

No way! In fact, quite the opposite, the more iPhones Apple sell, the more they are iPods they are selling. It’s really quite simple, no matter how great a mobile phone becomes, it will never be a totally substitute for your MP4 player, with 4 big reasons:

1. Battery life, mobile phones just eat up battery time - where as a well run MP4 player can churn out 30 or 40 hours of music.
2. Memory - How many mobile phones offer 32GB or 40GB of storage? The top of the range iPod Touch has 32GB, and Archos have several players with a mind blowing 160GB storage, including the Archos 605 Wifi.
3. Video - The latest MP4 players have very fast processors such as the ONDA VX747 that can play all the most popular video file formats without compression. Mobile phones just don’t have that kinda’ technology
4. Displays - OK, fares’ fare here, the iPhone does have a great screen, but do other phones come even close to that? I don’t think so. When watching video is coming even popular on MP4 players, a great screen playing a full 30 fps is a must!

We all know an MP3 player plays MP3’s, so what does an MP4 player do then? Play MP4’s…

Well, not quite. The term ‘MP4 Player’ was originally a Chinese marketing term for a portable media player. Their idea was that it should make their players sound like an improvement or a successor to an MP3 Player. 

And as technology progresses so fast, the term MP4 Player, generally means now an ‘all singing, all dancing’ media player…one that really does do everything, from playing all your music & video files to being a clock, FM radio, digital voice recorder, text reader, game, camera, and more. In fact anything else that the manufacturers can think of to an on to them!

The most recent ground breaking features on these players have been due to the development of faster processors. This allows the top range MP4 players to play multiple video file formats, including Real Player, Flash, MPEG, DAT, WMV and many more. A good example of this is the ONDA VX747.

Music on the move - with MP3 players becoming smaller and smaller and yet able to hold entire music collections on them, it’s interesting to consider what are you listing to…

Now, here’s an interesting fact on music:

In 1996 a study on Heavy Metal group AC/DC’s song ‘Back in Black’ was found to significantly increase the rate of growth in cancer cells, while traditional Indian music called Sama Veda was found to significantly decrease the growth rate of cells.

You can listen to them both here, see what you think!

AC/DC Back In Black
Traditional Indian Sama Veda Recitation