It becomes increasingly difficult for me to continue posting every new MP3 player that comes out, and I think I'm sort giving up. But hell, here's another.

Green House has announced that they will release the "Kana M-bird," a portable audio player with built in speaker in late March. The estimated price is 23,800 yen. Black, White, and Red body colors will be available.

The Kana M-bird has a 200mW speaker o­n the body for listening to audio without use of earphones. It has a 512MB flash memory capacity, and can playback MP3, WMA and OGG format files.

Also o­n the body is an FM tuner and mic. A voice recorder function provides up to 73 hours of recording time (16kbps ~ 192kbps supported), and the unit can also record directly to MP3 from the line-in jack. The interface is USB 2.0, supported under Windows 98 SE, ME, 2000, and XP.

On the body is a 20 x 22mm size LCD which allows for selection of 10 backlight colors; it supports the display of Japanese filenames, song names, artist names, and other info. Power is supplied by a lithium ion battery providing roughly 15 hours of playback time when using headphones. The body size is 66.8 x 38.6 x 18.7mm (W x D x H), and it weighs like 53g.

Inspired by:
http://arena.nikkeibp.co.jp/news/20050314/111727/

Press Release:
http://www.green-house.co.jp/news/2005/r0314a.html