Onda VX878 Portable Media Player: Throwback Review (2008)
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- In the late 2000s, the market was saturated with portable media players from hundreds of different vendors, ranging from unbranded iPhone clones to high-quality Windows Mobile devices. The Onda VX878 occupied the "middle class" of that equation by offering 2GB of storage, a 2.4" QVGA touchscreen, and UA-cam video playback capabilities, all for a cost of around $85 ($110 today, adjusted for inflation).
In 2008, I finally got around to filming a short review of the device, but it was never published... until now. Instead of just playing the raw video without context, I thought that this would represent an excellent opportunity to engage in a retrospective discussion about the market, which, while radically different today, carries a number of interesting parallels.
List of portable devices shown in the video: (in order of ownership)
IBM WorkPad C500 (rebranded Palm m500)
Nikon Coolpix S1 Camera
Onda VX878 portable media player
HP iPAQ 4150
HTC Diamond
Samsung Epic
Samsung Galaxy Note 2
Motorola Moto X Pure Edition (XT1575)
Interesting postscript: I had to completely re-render this entire video because apparently it is no longer acceptable to have even 20 seconds of "Gold on the Ceiling" playing. Sigh.
@3:50 I was just thinking... sounded pitch'd down especially for a 13 year old boy LOL
Hah! The easter egg at the end has some of the original audio in all its glory.
Wanna listen to some tunes?
This is the device on which to do it!
Does anyone know where I can stream "Monty Python and The Holy Grail" in 720p?
I can only imagine trying to transcode that for playback on the VX878. Especially on the HP Pavilion ZT1250 that I was running as my main computer back then.
Let’s go your back
That's the best place to go.