Sometimes you can buy a cheap, white-box device and find it’s better than the brand name item.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, sometimes you can buy a Sly Electronics SL014G MP3 player.<\/p>\n
That dies a few days after the 90-day warranty runs out.<\/p>\n
That has an extensive, useless UI crammed in to a micro-sized screen – but no shuffle function.<\/p>\n
Whose battery doesn’t last long.<\/p>\n
That forgets where it is in the playlist whenever it’s plugged in to a USB power source. Or something.<\/p>\n
That, perhaps like all non-Sony devices, takes a loooong time to skip to the next song.<\/p>\n
Oh well. Better luck next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sometimes you can buy a cheap, white-box device and find it’s better than the brand name item. On the other hand, sometimes you can buy a Sly Electronics SL014G MP3 player. That dies a few days after the 90-day warranty … Continue reading