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Some were innovative in their way -- Karma was the world's first gapless portable (and still one of very few), and the world's first portable to play a lossless compressed format (and still one of very few to play an open lossless format) -- but it's hardly "keeping in step with the MP3 player market".

Peter


Can't let this slide. The PJB100 from Hango (licensed from Compaq) was the first gapless portable in fact the first harddrive portable (if you don't count the Empeg). Release in 1999, it should have sold better but was not marketed well like the ipod is. It got great reviews in the Mags, but when the ipod and other harddrive based players came out they got great reviews too instead of being criticized for lacking key features the PJB100 had like gapless playback and user replacable batteries. Like the Empeg team they had a prototype for a even better unit, but Compaq was bought by HP and they canned the project. I would have bought a Karma but they never came out with the 40gig model and nowadays it's possible to put an 80 or even 100gig drive in a PJB.

Kelly