Media Players for AA Passengers
Thanks to a new deal with Archos, American Airlines will be handing out portable media players along with stale pretzels and warm bottles of water to their passengers. Business and First Class passengers on international flights out of New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco will now find Archos 704 portable media devices (pictured) waiting for them pre-loaded with films and music, along with Bose QuietComfort 3 Acoustic Noise-Canceling headphones.
Meanwhile, passengers on flights between Chicago O'Hare and LAX will be able to get their mitts on Archos 604 devices, complete with earbuds that we hope get some sort of disinfecting between flights. The 604 will again be free for those at the front of the cabin, while the the poor sods in Coach Class will of course need to pay if they want one.
Alas, flyers won't get to keep these costly portable media players, and we have serious doubts about anybody figuring out how to use these things, since they're no iPods in terms of user-friendliness.
No word on how much they'll cost to use in Economy class, but hopefully it'll be a better deal than the $2 they charge for a bag of nuts these days.
From Engadget
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