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July 28, 2005

New: Olympus MR500 m:Robe 20 gb mp3 player/camera with touchscreen

More digital devices have been incorporating mp3 functions as storage grows. Now, Olympus has introduced a new digital audio player with an integrated 1.22 megapixel digital camera.

The Olympus MR-500 comes with a 20 gigabyte hard drive for the storage of MP3 and other digital audio files as well as digital photographs.

That's enough space to store several thousand songs and many hundreds of pictures, depending upon picture size, according to Olympus.

Stored photos can be displayed using a built-in LCD with a resolution of 640x480 pixels.

The MR-500 even comes with a remix-play mode, which allows users to combine pictures and sound data stored on the unit's hard drive.

Most features of the combo-player can be controlled using a built-in touchpad.

The MR-500 is available now at the retail level and costs around $450.

Posted by mp3fan at July 28, 2005 8:56 AM