Written on June 22, 2008 – 3:00 am | by Bogdan Alex |
As if there weren’t enough players whose denominations start with the letter ‘i’ on the market, the Chinese decided to make yet another Apple clone. This time it’s an iPod Shuffle clone, as its diminutive size points out. It even sounds like an Apple product: the I Sport W18 mp3 player. Right… but this little clone right here brings some key features that Apple omitted from the iPod Shuffle.

The player is powered by a 90nm Sigmatel 3710 chip which allows the W18 to provide up to a whole day of music, thumping at a 95dB signal-to-noise ratio quality. The player even includes a small LCD screen, pretty good for timing your morning runs with the built-in stopwatch. It can be easily attached to an arm band so you can run as fast as you like without getting the little thing smashed. However, the earphones could prove to be a bit of a problem.

The I Sport W18 comes in colors such as black, blue, red, yellow, and green, to match your favorite sporty gear. As this is a Chinese product, there details on pricing or availability were somehow omitted from the press release translation, but it is most likely that the player will be available only in the Asian parts.