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Iomega HipZip

Description: Model ID 31424 / Iomega HipZip - Digital player - PocketZip 40 MB - WMA, MP3 - blue, grey metallic / Introducing the HipZip Digital ... more

Iomega HipZip ... Audio Player. This portable device gives you skip-free, CD-quality sound in a cool, compact design. The HipZip Digital Audio Player offers you solid protection from accidents or spills. And the full metal housing on each PocketZip disk offers an equally durable media. One 40MB PocketZip disk carries over 80 minutes of your favorite music that you can play on your HipZip digital audio player. Move your music from one PocketZip disk to another without any reformatting, and then carry it in your HipZip digital audio player wherever you go. Whether you're in your office or at the football game. PocketZip disks are uniquely serialized, so your player can tell one disk from another. You use your serial number to lock content onto your disk. Also, the Windows Media Player 7 comes with Windows Rights Manager, so your content cannot be opened on an unauthorized disk.

Newest Review: ... of your CDs. As the discs were originally for laptops, they can also hold any other data, meaning that this player also ... more

... doubles up as a removab le drive. The Hipzip player is among the best MP3 players out there, it sounds good, looks great and operates very well. The battery life exceeds 12 hours playback, and while the odd cut out happens it hardly affects it. The only thing I can say bad is that after updating the firmware my player died within a week and had to be replaced. Iomega were great about it and I had a new player inside a week, but it was a worr...more

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Iomega HipZip: Very Hip !! (488 words)
by - written on 11/09/01 (Very useful, 313 readings)
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A little while ago Iomega, one of the leaders in digital storage, created a laptop-specific portable drive called the Clik drive. Smaller than a Zip drive, this replaced the cartridges with small discs each capable of holding 40Mb of information. The drive wasn?t a big success, but the way they have decided to use the discs now is quite brilliant. MP3 players are all the rage, smaller than portable CD players are and with no skip. However the downside is the small memory amounts. The most a lot of the players offer is 64Mb, with the odd offering up to 128Mb. The Iomega Hipzip player has replaced this idea by using the Clik discs as the memory. This ... Read the complete review

Unlimited music capacity! (241 words)
by - written on 07/05/01 (Very useful, 387 readings)
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The trouble with most MP3 players is that they have limited music storage, 64MB holding only an hours worth of memory, with each upgrade costing around £100. This is why the Iomega HipZip is special, very special indeed. Instead of having flash memory cards, it uses PocketZip discs (or click!) to store all you loved tunes on. With each 40MB disc only costing around £10, the HipZip is the first MP3 player with the option of carrying around huge amounts of music, literally. Although there are "juke box" style MP3 players out there, but they have built in hard discs, so even then the storage may be massive but it's still limited. The HipZip is very ... Read the complete review

Technical Details for Iomega HipZip

Product Description	Iomega HipZip digital player
Product Type	Digital player - PocketZip
Enclosure Colour	Blue, grey metallic
Localisation	English / Europe
Sound Output Mode	Stereo
Equaliser	Digital graphic
Supported Digital Audio Standards	WMA, MP3
Built-in Display	LCD
Digital Storage Media	PocketZip - removable
Capacity	40 MB
Headphones	Headphones - binaural - stereo
Battery	1 x player - Lithium Ion
Manufacturer Warranty	1 year warranty