I’ve already spent some time stepping away from streaming with another digital audio player, but the Snowsky Echo sits in a slightly different space. Where something like the Innioasis Y1 leans heavily into affordable nostalgia as a concept, the Echo feels more like an attempt to refine it, to
It’s funny to have been on the front end of the rapid consolidation of devices only to see the tail end of it when we distribute them again.
I remember, back in like 2005, camera phones and media phones were starting to properly come out, and I didn’t want it. I had a cell phone and an mp3 player and a digital camera, and I kinda liked it that way.
I mean it’s definitely pretty phenomenal. I actually still have an 80 gig iPod from back in the day. It is a superior music player.
But I just can’t see myself carrying that around and my phone. Nowadays, most of the music that I listen to is Pandora or YouTube music.
I have a mp3 collection on my phone but it’s very curated.
I miss my Palm and Ipaq…
I had a palm centro and it was the coolest phone in my highschool. I had a non-phone palm device before that too, as a hand-me-down. It had the writing system for text input which was really cool. I loved those Palm devices.