Polaroid Freescape 4360 PMP with WiFi
by Sze | Filed under Portable Media
Polaroid presents the new Freescape 4360 (aka MPU-043315B) portable media player that comes with 60GB capacity and supports WiFi connectivity. Polaroid Freescape 4360 has a 4.3-inch LCD display with 480×272 resolution, integrated FM tuner, support for MPEG4, WMA, WMV, MP3 and JPEG files. The player may support also DivX with plug-in in the furture.
The player supports TV Out. The 60GB storage space should allow you to store all your favorite media while the integrated WiFi would allow you to stream music or videos.
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I have a Polaroid Freescape. Had it for less than a week. Crashed 3 times on the first day connecting it to PC.
Crashes constantly and requires paperclip to reset. Had problems connecting to wifi network and doesn’t seem to store settings sometimes? but it did automatically update firmeware once online though yet to download Podcast!
Requires windows media player to sync files across to the PMP, which I don’t use any media player only K-lite media player classic. I have problems getting it to recognise Genre after copying across files or albums. MP3 headers set using ID3Tag.
Video took a bit of sorting
xvid codecs
bitrate 512kbps (though can go higher)
video size 320×240 (despite its screen size)
frame rate 24
Audio
MP3
2 Channel (Stereo)
44100Hz
Bitrate 96kbps
apparently it also supports H264 codec but I can’t get that to work only WMA and AVI, xvid (good picture)
Also doesn’t seem to charge in Standby? leave on all night but battery state still the same in the morning. If You shutdown to charge, the PMP turns back on when AC power connected so You have to leave on all the time to charge the thing? if you connect AC then shutdown still doesn’t charge.
I paid £79 from amazon though I wouldn’t buy again I would go for a solid state flash drive instead! Cheap External 60GB drive with an onboard player. But really the crashes make it nearly unusable?