Which is the most hackable portable media player out there?
Neuros made media players that had an open firmware that was designed to be hacked. Nothing much came of it (and the players mostly sucked), and the players aren’t being produced anymore, but you can probably still get them for cheap in eBay auctions and the like.
Definitely investigate the Nokia 800. A variety of media player apps are available for it but the best is UKMP (Google it; videos showing it in use are available). The N800 has wifi and you can also browse the web with a fully-featured browser. Effectively it’s a mini-computer. Get a bluetooth keyboard and it’s damn near a real computer. Now is a good time to buy because the price has been slashed because the all-new N810 is due soon. However, factor in buying 2x 8GB memory cards too (one for each of its memory slots). Incidentally, I’m posting this from an N770, the N800’s older brother.
