The MP3 Players

The new Hacha we mentioned some days ago is now unveiled. The model that took about one year of development together with the world’s largest NOR Flash provider, Spansion is the new Hacha R280!

The new R280 is powered by the ARM926EJ-S 240Mhz core that built-in with DSP and Java accelerator, and 16MB SDRAM (max 128MB). It also features a 2.83″ QVGA display and maximum 8GB flash memory. It also supports miniSD expansion up to 2GB. Another highlight of the R280 is that suports Macromedia Adobe Flash and Java applications through firmware upgrade. Don’t worry about the battery life, The company claims that it can play audio and video up to 30 hours and 5t hours respectively.

Well, the retail price is still unknown and it will probably be available after the X’mas. I hope it can be cheap as other’s China brands

[ via iMP3 ]

Ho, ho, hooo…. the white x’mas is coming soon. Have you order your x’mas present for your loving one? No? Let see some MP3 players that worth for every cent you spent!

1. Creative Zen Vision:M 30Gb vs Apple iPod 5.5G 30GB

Don’t limit yourself just look for Apple iPod. Instead, Creative Zen Vision:M may be a good choice if you want to play media in most of the formats! Though it doesn’t look that sexy as an iPod. It still do its job, plays pretty music and it is about $40 cheaper than an iPod.

2. Sandisk Sansa e280 8GB vs Apple iPod Nano 2G 8GB

Sandisk has just slashed the pricing of its Sansa e200 series. Sansa e280 8Gb is only $188 at Walmart! Fruthermore, with that such attractive price, you can get a Griffin black leather vizor for free. The new price is about $50 cheaper than an iPod Nano 2G 8GB!

With the extra money through these deals, you can spend it for second X’mas present or just get an extra pair for portable speaker like Creative Labs SBS Vivid 60. Hurry up, get your stuffs shipped on time

We did report that iRiver is planning to release their new S7 series. A few hours later, the iRiver S7 will be official unveiled! The S7 is generally a screenless S10. Well, let see some brief techinal specs!

• Supports MP3, WMA, ASF, OGG (Q10)
• 15mW＋15mW Outputs
• Supports SRS WOW 2.0
• D-click systems
• 42 × 30 × 9.6mm
• 15g
• 9 hours of battery life

Without the lcd display, the new S7 is now even smaller. Suggested retail price for iRiver S7 1G is 89,000 Won (approx US$96). With no doubt, it will be an iPod Shuffle 2 killer. But, I think Reigncom should revise their price before iRiver S7 can be a true killer!
[ via iRiverfans ]

The Japanese harddisk maker, Toshiba, has announced that the company will start to ship its new 1.8″ harddisk from 5th January 2007. The new harddisk is MK1011GAH with 100GB of capacity. Let us make a wild guess on the 6th generation iPod. Will the next iPod have 100GB of HDD, touch screen and wireless network connectivity?

We did tell you about Meizu Music Card few months ago. And now, we have a little bit more details on it. Picture below shows the partial of the upcoming Meizu Music Card (a.k.a M3). It is slim as 6.9mm and width 39mm, which is quite close with the iPod Nano. The source also reported that the M3 front panel will have 3 buttons.

Well, should be call it just another iPod Nano rip off? Probably not, it does play WMA Lossless where iPod Nano doesn’t do it

[ via ZOL ]