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JIVE Magazine Rating: 5 out of 5 Take Your Card With You's

Release Information: Frontier Labs presents the ultimate entertainment improvement à la NEX IA style. The NEXBLACK is on track with your mobile life. Apart from playing your MP3‘s and WMA‘s at finest stereo sound quality, this full-featured gadget includes a highly improved fm tuner, line-in and a state-of-the-art recording device. Ultra-fast USB 2.0 and expendable memory ensure you the accessibility Frontier Labs has always represented. Its chic retro design includes a black LCD screen and makes the NEXBLACK rather attractive. But instead of hiding this cool device from your colleagues, mates, siblings and others, you better jump and run.

FEATURES:
— Remote control
— Infinite memory and storage expansion via CF/Microdrive*
— Simple drag and drop file transfer via super fast USB2.0.
— 5 band user programmable equalizer with 5 preset sound modes.
— Fully interactive high resolution LCD and supports ID3 tags.
— Smart play functions including resume, random, repeat one, repeat all, repeat random, repeat folder, and random folder.
— Supports multiple formats, MP3, WMA, WMA with DRM 9 and Ogg Vorbis
— Built in FM Radio and FM Record in MP3 format (bit rate selectable)
— Direct line in encoding in MP3 format (bit rate selectable)
— Multi-language support
— Sleep timer, multiple folder support, auto shut down and play lists support.
*tested to work with most standard CF cards and Hitachi/Seagate Microdrives.

FAQ:

SO HOW DO I POWER THIS PLAYER? With 2 AA batteries

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO: > 95dB

WHAT?S THE DISTORTION RATE? < 0.5%

WHAT?S THE MAX OUTPUT? 25mW x 2

WHAT?S THE SLOT? Type I/II Compact Flash

HOW BIG IS THE NEXBLACK? 80mm x 65mm x 22mm

HOW LONG DOES IT PLAY? 20 hours for Compact Flash/12 hours for Microdrive*

HOW FAST CAN I TRANSFER MY FILES? About 1MB/seond

HOW ABOUT THE FREQUENCY RANGE? 20Hz to 20kHz

FILE FORMAT AND BIT RATES SUPPORTED: MP3/WMA DRM9/Ogg Vorbis-- 16Kbps - 320 Kbps & VBR

RECORDING BIT RATES: User selectable

FM FREUQENCY RANGE: 87.5Mhz to 108Mhz

FIRMWARE: Flash based, firmware upgradeable

SUPPORTED OS: Win98SE/ME/2000/XP & Mac OS

*Actual playing time depends on the battery used and the memory card used.

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