Is'nt it true also, that over past several years, manufacturers (empowered by consumers) have been producing products smaller and smaller to the result of being almost un-useable due to their miniturisation.Take cellphones for example (although we are still woefully behind here in US). They got to almost postage stamp size when people finally realised that this was abit silly and un-useable. There is an optimum size for anything when dealing with people, due to eyesight/physical size, but the trend was to get as small as possible for awhile.Maybe this is a driving factor in the diminitive size of some of these recorders.
