Why can't somebody take simple smartphone hardware and make a modern media player that is not a phone?

Because you can do that with any phone and just not use the phone part?

Because I want something half the size of a phone. I don't need a giant screen, I just want a player that can do music or audiobooks and be light enough to run with.

I find myself researching, trying to find the smallest lightest old phone that either has decent internal memory or a micro SD slot, but it's not easy. Most phones are massive compared to an iPod shuffle

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wmf 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There are a ton of these and they're all behind your "company I've never heard of" blind spot.

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robotresearcher 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Here's a one in close to the form factor of the last iPod Shuffle: https://www.fiio.com/m5

	▲	asimovDev an hour ago \| parent [-]
		They have an AI assistant on the webpage and it says that the shortcut to activate it is cmd+Q (on Mac this is a global shortcut to quit an application, akin to alt+F4) which is absolutely psychotic. I wonder if in chinese macOS the shortcut is different or something or the person designing it uses windows and just thought ctrl+q(uestion) makes perfect sense

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jayGlow 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

you could use a smart watch, not nearly as much storage but for playing music while running it can work well enough.

	▲	arthurfm 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There's a case [1] for the Apple Watch that turns it into an 'iPod'. It's also quite similar to the Pod Case concept [2]. [1] https://thetinypod.com [2] https://www.behance.net/gallery/72386255/Pod-Case-for-Apple-...