The MP3 Players

Wow, Apple is looking for the lucky person who purchase the billionth song at its iTunes Music Store! Some luxury prizes are ready to be awarded to the lucky person! The billionth song buyer will be rewarded one 20″ iMac, 10 iPod 60GB (5 white, 5 black) and $10,000 worth of iTunes Music Card. Besides, Apple also awards one iPod Nano 4Gb and $100 worth of iTunes Music Card for every 100,000 songs starting at 950,100,000.

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Samsung is going to ship the new flash-based MP3 player, YP-Z5 this month. The company has added YP-Z5A (4GB) and YP-Z5Q (2GB) flash-based audio players to their US website. Both of them are available in black and silver color. The suggested retail prices are $199 and $249 for YP-Z5Q and YP-Z5A respectively.

Samsung YP-Z5 was first introduced at CES 2006 last January. It features an 1.8″ TFT display, MP3 / WMA / WMA-DRM10 / OGG audio playback, PlaysForSure subscription support, JPEG photo viewing / slideshow / wallpaper, DNSe 3D audio processing, and 35-hour battery life.

[YP-Z5AB (4GB Black), YP-Z5AS (4GB Silver), YP-Z5QB (2GB Black), YP-Z5QS (2GB Silver) via SamsungHQ ]

Sony finally decided to discontinue the production of Walkman Bean. The jellybean was critiqued since first introduced last August. However, the spokesperson hints that an upgrade could be on the way.

Sony Corp. will discontinue its Walkman Bean portable music players in April, less than six months after the colorful, kidney-shaped player hit the market, according to several UK media reports. The company confirmed the decision to UK newspapers The Telegraph and The Independent.

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Chinese PCPOP recently received a sample unit of LG FM20 to be reviewed. The website has published some close up pictures of this stylish MP3 player before it is reviewed. It looks so cool!

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It is common to see a mobile phone that plays MP3 music. But how about MP3 player that comes with mobile phone functionalities? The Chinese Jingwah Electronic has made a breakthrough to the market by introducing its lastest MP3 player, JWD GM300. The core feature of GM300 is to playback MP3 and WMA audio files. However, it does come with several basic functionalities of mobile network connectivity, text messaging and T9 input.

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