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Tag Archives: Swimming MP3
Hands-on: Waterfi’s Spotify Streaming Swimming Music Player
I’m a Spotify person. Sure, there are many audio services, but the one I listen to virtually the entire day (and at night with the kids) is Spotify. Largely because it works anywhere I am in the world, without funky … Read More Here
FINIS Neptune Swimming MP3 Player In-Depth Review
When FINIS announced the new Neptune swimming MP3 player two months ago I was skeptical. I was pretty happy with the previous generation – the SwiMP3. It was smaller, and and thus for most swimmers, that’s a critical selling point. … Read More Here
The Great Swimming MP3 Player Shootout
This past summer I started a swimming MP3 player test, one that I feel I can finally conclude. I ended up buying just about every popular swimming MP3 player on the market, and then started testing them – one after … Read More Here
The Weekend: Motorola MOTOACTV, Zeo Mobile, Jawbone Up, long battery tests
I didn’t exactly plan on having as many different gadgets arrive this weekend as occurred – it just sorta happened. But holy cow – there’s some really cool stuff in here! Like increda-cool. I can’t wait to get full in … Read More Here
Running from Irene
The weekend started out rather calm – with a nice Friday evening swim at the outdoor pool. I had ordered a slew of different underwater MP3 players over the past few weeks, and for reasons unknown to me they all … Read More Here