RE: Wireless In-Car MP3?

["Hawes,Timothy Edward \(GEG\)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mal,

Maplin were selling something similar. It was a SFF computer and 3"
(guessing) LCD screen & buttons. The HDD was in a caddy so you'd pull
the caddy out, put it in your desktop PC, dump your mp3s to it then slot
it back in the car. The HDD wasn't huge, maybe 40GB, but enough for a
couple of songs on the way to work ;-)

I had a quick look on the Maplin site and can't see it now, typical :-(
Price wasn't too bad either, comparable to an IPOD IIRC.

Cheers,

Tim H.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mal Lansell  Sent: 15 July 2004 18:01
>
> I'm wondering if anyone knows of such a beast...
>
> I was sitting here while burning a CD to listen to in the car
> on the way home from work that it might be an idea to buy a
> car stereo that could play MP3 disks (so I wouldn't have to
> burn so many disks!).
>
> Then I thought why not connect a portable Mp3 player instead
> - I could download music to it and have different tunes each
> day without having to burn disks at all.
>
> _Then_ I thought, well wouldn't it be cool if the player had
> a wireless lan connection - I could grab music from my home
> network before setting off in the morning, and not have to
> keep bringing the thing indoors (the player not the car) to
> be plugged into the PC.
>
> I know I could do this with a Wireless PDA, but is there
> anything that can be permanently fitted to the car that would
> do that same thing?
>
> If not, there's a gap in the market for someone to fill! :-)
>
> Mal

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