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Re:Google Glasses Make Their Questionable Debut at (New York... by owenjones on Monday September 10, 2012 @12:20PM (#4500558)
Maybe I'm not remembering correctly but wasn't the iPod the first MP3 player to combine a disk harddrive with flash memory? Thereby allowing it to store gigs of music when the rest were touting 64 - 128 MBs of storage?

Seems like a pretty big deal to me.

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Re:Google Glasses Make Their Questionable Debut at (New York... by jff on Monday September 10, 2012 @12:36PM (#4500639)
No. The early iPods used a hard drive, the later ones used flash for storage. The iPod was not the first device to provide a hard disk for large storage; look up the Personal Jukebox and the Creative NOMAD.

(I know it came post-iPod, but I loved my Creative NOMAD Zen Xtra. 60 GB drive and it would play all day on a charge, no trouble (wish my Android phone could pull that off))

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Re:Google Glasses Make Their Questionable Debut at (New York... by Evbn on Monday September 10, 2012 @04:21PM (#4502017)
Apple added the 16MB flash buffer which was less common.
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