The Cynic Says……

This is something I can’t quite figure out… Why in the hell don’t we have any bluetooth-enabled mp3 players out? I mean, I’ve seen a few that are flash-based and 512MB at the largest, but I’m not even sure they’re available in the US. Frankly, I think it’d be a great idea to have a hard drive based mp3 player that also had bluetooth. You can buy bluetooth headphones now, so you’d be able to listen to your music without having to worry about wires getting caught on stuff. You could also easily sync your files from your PC to your mp3 player without having to hook it up to your PC everytime. It wouldn’t really be practical to transfer 5GB of data over a bluetooth connection but being able to dump a few mp3’s over to your player without having to fool with the cables would be a nice touch. Hell, we’re adding bluetooth to most of our other devices so why not our mp3 players as well? I mean, if a 6-10 GB hard drive based mp3 player with a color screen and bluetooth came out, I’d sell my iriver in a heartbeat and buy it provided that it also supported Janus (thus allowing me to transfer subscription music from Yahoo to it). I wonder what the reason is that we’ve never seen one. Perhaps a lack of demand for it?