The MP3 Players

iRiver Taiwan has run an outdoor advertising campaign in Taipei city. The campaign will last for a week from 22nd August to 28th August 2005. Products shown on video billboard are the upcoming T10, T20, T30 and U10.

Here are some pictures of the video advertisement.

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Some quick updates of iRiver U10 and N11 here. U10 was not released on 22nd August as we expected. iRiver’s manufacturer, Reigncom has announced that it plans to release two flash memory types, U10 and N11 in September. It is most probably 2nd September 2005.

As we reported, N11 is the enhanced version of N10 with built-in FM tuner, Ogg Vorbis (up to Q10) supported, lower power consumption, and USB 2.0 interface supported. Well, it can also be called the deluxe version of N10. It has a stylish Swarovski crystal in the center of the product with a thinner necklace string. It is featured with a 16 OLED display.

However, the price is somewhat pricey. The recommended prices are 198,000 Won (approx US$193), 240,900 Won (approx US$234) and 297,000 Won (approx US$288) for 256MB, 512MB and 1GB respectively.

{ via AVing Visual News }

iMP3.net is very fortunate to receive the latest iRiver U10 to be reviewed. It was just released on yesterday in Korea. While waiting for the review, let see some picture of iRiver U10 in action.

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Yahoo Japan launched a new online music service Monday. To compete with Apple’s iTunes Music Store in Japan, the latest service allows free streaming of any of 100,000 songs before buying them.

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Other Internet music services in Japan offer only 30 seconds from free sampling, making Yahoo’s the first to offer free listening to full-length songs, Yahoo Japan spokesman Masaki Hanyu said.

However the quality of free music is only comparable to FM radio. Higher quality of musics are only available for paid download. The free offering also generate advertising revenue to Yahoo Japan. Toyota Motor Corp. and Asahi Breweries Ltd. are lined up to advertise on video commercials preceding the free songs.

{ via BusinessWeek }

Get bored with your dull-colored headphones? How about getting a trendy bikini headphone? Well, the headphones are manufactured by ZUMREED, called ‘BORDER/MUJI’ . It has 15 different colors and can be folded while not in use. The recommended price in Korea is 38,000 Won (approx US$37).

{ via AVing Visual News }