As an owner of an iRiver iHP-140, I both love it’s cool hardware features and have an intense dislike of it’s trashy incomplete firmware. While the machine is great, the software is somewhat lacking compared to what Creative or Apple offer users.
Playerblog and Slashdot are reporting on the announcement from alternative firmware group RockBox to standardise on the H-series as their preferred target for their next generation firmware.
RockBox started out by making alternative firmware for the now very obsolete Archos music players. The iRiver machines are technically more capable, and are made from parts which are better documented - it is to be expected that a porting effort should yield faster results.
It was widely reported that the current firmware release was Delayed for more than 4 months, and I even mentioned this in a previous report on this blog. It’s possible that the existance of a 3rd party firmware maker will encourage iRiver to compete, and perhaps meet their own deadlines for a change.
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