The MP3 Players

Even though the price of Zen Micro Photo was annouced at CES 2005, the company spokesperson told the medias that the pricing is not confirmed yet. Creative had proposed the retail price of US$299 for 5GB version and US$349 for 6GB version. However, Apple introduced the 30GB version of iPod Photo at the price of US$349, which as at the same line as the Zen Micro Photo.

Creative’s Zen Micro Photo is the award winner of “Best of CES” in the “Audio to Go” category. The device comes with 1.5″ OLED screen, which captures 262,144 colors. It allows users to watch and share slideshows of photos while playing the music at the background.

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Update: More pictures of Creative’s Zen Micro Photo

The Korean MP3 maker, mobiBLU has announced the company’s latest flash-based model, DAH-1700. The model is available in the strage capacity of 256MB, 512MB, and 1GB with the color combination of Yellow/White, Red/Black, and Blue/Silver respectively.

mobiBLU DAH-1700 supports audio playback of MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV and ASF files. Besides, the player also able to play MPEG4 and JPEG with its 65K OLED display. It comes with 11 types of preset EQ with SRS WOW sound effect supported. No complaint with its sound quality while the design is really a piece of art!

It seems that mobiBLU has made an evolution in their product design. See also their DAH-1500

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One of the strong point of iPod is that its full range of accessories from Apple and other third party manufacturers. Creative has begun to do the same works after iPod’s footstep. Creative has released a traveldock that specially made for its Zen Micro, called Zen Micro Traveldock.

The 4-speaker traveldock is featured with NeoTitanium Microdriver Technology with may produce high fidelity sound. This portable speaker is designed to dock, charge and playback music from Zen Micro on the go. An IR remote control is also included in thep package that can provide wireless control to the users, which up to the distance of 26 feet.

This speaker is sold at Amazon at the retail price of US$149.88

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Finally, Philips confirms its GoGear Micro Jukebox HDD084 to be released in the consumer market. The product is officially listed in Philips’ website.

Philips introduced this model at 2005 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on January 2005.

The Philips’ HDD084 features the storage capacity of 3GB that can play MP3/WMA/WAV formats audio. It has a white colour backlight LCD display with the resolution of 94 x 64. The player is light enough as it is just weighted 78g with the dimension of 86 x 53 x 16.7mm. However, battery life of its 610 mAh li-ion battery is not mentioned.

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Airplay features an easy-to-read, illuminated digital frequency display. When iPod shuffle begins to play AirPlay automatically transmits on the last used radio frequency. Selecting a new frequency is easy, simply find an unused FM frequency on the radio then press AirPlay’s tuning buttons to select the same frequency.

AirPlay for iPod shuffle is powered and charged by the attached auxiliary power adapter, which plugs into your car’s cigarette lighter or auxiliary power outlet. Whether the AirPlay is transmitting or not, it continues to charge the iPod shuffle.

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