RE: Wireless In-Car MP3?

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah - pretty sure it was the M-Station that you're referring to ... I
think
Maplin did them for a bit but I know CPC used to do them too and they were
plugging them in their special offers brochures for ages trying to get shot
of them.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mal Lansell [mailto:mlansell@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 16 July 2004 09:30
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Wireless In-Car MP3?
>
> Sounds intriguing.  Are you sure it was Maplin?  I don't
> remember seeing anything like that in their catalogue...
>
> Mal
>
>
> Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG) wrote:
>
> >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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