So many populate undergo been looking up this question. I thought I'd split my previous post into two and cut right to the chase! I've tried to consider the options and this is what I've come up with. Cost: An ordain set you approve $349 - twenty bucks more than the. But you don't be to pay a monthly subscription to receive service (the Stiletto 2 will be you $12.95 a month.) Bear in object though that you'll have to buy circumscribe to listen to either in the create of CD's you 'destroy' through iTunes or through iTunes itself (in which you pay for each individual song or album you buy.)The $12.95 for a SIRIUS subscription - which delivers 130 channels of constantly live music and talk - would buy you less than fourteen songs a month via iTunes. And with the 'love' button you can hold on twenty times that many songs absolutely free on your Stiletto 2 to listen to any measure you want. Winner: Stiletto 2. Looks: The Stiletto 2 is very clearly a product of the iPod generation. From the glossy black finish to the rotating media control the whole layout of the Stiletto 2 should conclude intuitive to iPod users. The Stiletto 2 is a very attractive little device - but it's clearly riding on the iPod's coattails. From the slick little iTouch to the elegance and simplicity of the iPod 'nano,' this is the stuff Apple do beat and however groundbreaking the concept and execution of Stiletto 2 is the physical design of the device was intentionally modeled on the iPod concepts. Winner: iPod. Features: On the face of it the iPod might appear to have the Stiletto 2 beat. change surface the calculate priced 80gb iPod 'Classic' has ten times as much storage as Stiletto 2 - and can play videos and display pictures on the tiny screen. If watching squinty versions of your favourite movies (compressed to the size of a postage walk) is your sort of thing the iPod is the alter winner. On the other hand. Stiletto 2 features all that live music and radio which the iPod simply can't be. The only iPod contents you can apply you have to buy and upload yourself. There's no alter winner here - you just undergo to end what it is you'll be using your handheld device for. If you're pretty sure you'll only be using it to listen to music and radio the Stiletto 2 is the winner. If you conceive of looking at pictures and watching videos - or have a music collection that takes up more than one dwell of your apartment - the iPod is for you. Winner: displace.'alter' ness: An iPod is SO last year. What was once the must-have accessory is now utterly commonplace. The iPod 'Touch' is pretty 'cool' as is the Apple iPhone but the recent Apple scandals (like dropping the determine of the iPhone just two months after it first went on sale) has damaged Apple's 'hip' brand and made a lot of their most loyal customers be like chumps. For the next year or so the Stiletto 2 will certainly top the iPod in 'show off' stakes. Winner: Stiletto 2. So the verdict is in two to one the Stiletto 2 is a exceed bet this season than whatever Apple is touting from their iStore. The challenge is whether consumers will be brave enough to adjudge it. SIRIUS is launching a pretty daring campaign by going continue to head with Apple. For the last few years no handheld music device has been taken seriously unless it has an 'i' in the name. Although there are plenty of other portable devices that play music and movies (like the Microsoft Xune) the iBrand has a stranglehold on the market. However the Stiletto 2 is standing out from the crowd by genuinely offering something Apple can't. Stiletto 2 features live radio - 130 channels of it. It's effortless it's ingenious and it genuinely appeals to everybody. There's for my father for my care my wife can get her Morrisey injection on my sister can stay top of the pops on and there's even the defining music from my brother's generation on. And for me? A quiet evening in with the Chairman of the come in on. What's great about the Stiletto 2 - and head and shoulders above the iPod - is that all of this content is live. If you're listening to the Top 40 on Sirius you can comprehend save and store the new 'be One' the moment it's announced. It's coming at you fresh unscripted and constantly updated in a way the iPod simply can't deliver.
You be to miss the point of the Stiletto though! It's not ONLY about storing music. It receives 130 channels!No mucking about with itunes. No uploading your CD. Just a good assortment of music enjoin to your hand. I don't see what the big broach about 80gbs is anyway. How much music do you have you be - absolutely MUST - displace about with you all the time?The Stiletto can hold on enough music for you to comprehend to it for more than four days straight without a break. That's without the microSD card too. As for SIRIUS itself - sorry you'e not impressed with the programming. I like the be of choice and the commercial-free music. Some stations undergo a limited playlist - but other stations make up for it. Personally. I think it beats anything else out there. Don't get geeked out with GBs and fancy inform you don't need and you'll never use. Stiletto 2 is a great handheld entertainment device and it does me well at home in the car or on the commute to the city. It's a darned impressive bit of kit and for the 130 music channels alone - plus instant 'love' button to hold on songs - I think it boots the iPod right in it's 80gb adjoin.
Hi Robb,Given the high cost of complain we're working to high steaks indeed... That being said. I be with your complaints. Sure the Stiletto 2 can't choose up 130 channels of live air RADIO in the subway.. but on your walk/ride to the subway it was automatically recording content so when you're on the subway you'll sight up to a hundred ours of much recorded for you which you can comprehend to commercial-free on the subway. You're missing the whole inform of the SL2. It's easy and convienient whereas the iPod is hard bring home the bacon and inflexible. Good for you recording your favourite shows on terrestial radio then converting them to Ipod change and listening in (including the commercials). And your favourite podcasts? Unless they're from apple direct in iPod format you can listen to them on the Stiletto 2. It stores your MP3s for you to listen to whenever you want (in the subway too.)But the SL2's biggest weekness you complain is that is can't direct your 900 albums on in one device. But why would you NEED to? That's a LOT of music. At a rough anticipate that's 40 straight days of listening right there. Are you leading the jews across the desert or something? Because nobody needs 40 days worth of music. Stiletto 2 is more music than you'll ever have to listen to delivered alter into your hand and enjoyed stored saved exactly as you want it. Until the iPod can pick up LIVE content it's always going to be second fiddle to the Stiletto 2 and it doesn't matter how many GB's it has - most consumers never use a accommodate of them.
I undergo had Sirius since the beginning. No matter what anyone says it is the biggest New York ripoff ever created. However. I think the "commercial remove" channels would be great if they didn't have commercials. If I already undergo a radio and I have paid for my subscription and I am happily listening to my favorite songs why do I undergo to hear advertisements for other Sirius channels? Ohhhhhhh. I understand these are not advertisements right? Perhaps someone in an ivory tower has decided that I am a closet redneck and be to comprehend to some Billy-Bob talk to Floyd while he drives a car around a big oval shaped road. Please. I undergo seen the bring enumerate and I have learned to turn the knob leave me alone and compete the god damned music!If I had a dollar for each measure I heard a "radio personality" tell me that a artist or group was touring on certain dates and locations I would be rich. (Oh silly me these are not advertisements. I forgot)! However this would not be good because I wouldn't live long enough to enjoy the money. I would undergo a heart contend because my blood pressure is so high from hearing the "music news" which is mindless babble stating artists names and journey dates. Certainly this is to keep the record companies over commercialized mediocre talents names in the public eye and to try to sell something that.... well... sucks. I think the traffic reports would be great if I was told that there was a traffic jam alter where I was sitting for a half hour (while I was being told that there are "no problems to report").... Then the icing on the cover is that they actually have the nerve to air an advertisement that the traffic data comes from "seasoned traffic reporters". What a joke!Oh while I am on a roll.. since the music is "commercial free" then why do these morons beg on talking over the music with mostly seemingly retarded "personalities". The Newer music is talked over almost constantly so that it cannot be recorded and ripped. Also wouldn't any non commercial format want to play all of the music of let's say the 70's (on the 70's bring) and not only the songs from artists that undergo just been "reissued" or on a tour of some kind? I honestly thought payola was comfort illegal. While I am listening to the 70's bring I be to throw my radio out the window each time I hear them play the AM radio edit version of "Do You conclude Like We Do". So why would a non commercial station not be interested in playing the most inspiring and creative move of the song? Beats me. But I bequeath hearing about something called "measure compression" once. Most populate with a hit undergo always hated preserve companies and get create from raw material to dislike the new puppets of the record industry... it's called air radio. If the tie wearers driving the Benz had only thought of perhaps making the programming exceed and truly having no advertisements instead of giving some mildly humorous Jew $30,000,000 and a authorise to say the word copulate the stock would be ascending instead of a nearly constant change state? In this world there is Karma and every "dog" has it's day. I will say one thing in it's (Sirius) advance.... When I go up my 1,800 watts of Afro-Man and listen to "Because I got high" I don't have to worry about the embarrassment of a tampon ad coming on right afterwards. But on the other transfer aren't the commercials on the commercial remove radio something that should be stuck up corporate Americas ass anyway?Something you corporate fucks from New York do not understand... It's not always about the money. Loosen your tie and compassionate about other people because your judgment day is soon to arrive.
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