The MP3 Players

The awaiting Apple event, One More Thing, will be started couple hours later. It is expected that Steve Jobs will introduce the new 5th generation of iPod. The most questioning issue is that does this new iPod play video.

While most of the people speculated new iPod video is coming to town, Think Secret reported that there will be no iPod video in the event. However, their source had found reliable clue that new iPod video will be released in the event. New iPod is expected available in 30GB and 60GB with 2 colors for each model. The prices most probably remain as current iPod 4G, which US$299 for 30GB and US$399 for 60GB.

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Apple is gonna to give a big surprise again! It has announced a “One More Thing” event on the coming October 12, at California Theatre venue in San Jose. Most of the Mac fans expect that Steve Jobs will introduce the long waiting 5th Generation iPod, which capable to play video with new Toshiba Perpendicular Disk. If this is true, then iTunes Music Store will provide downloadable music video and movies too!

Well, let’s wait and see how true is it!

{ via iLounge }

SigmaTel was famous with their integrated solution once ago, especially for those models at low/mid price range. However, Sigmatel’s solutions are less preferable nowadays as they were claimed that they don’t supports video playback. There are more and more models are made with ATJ20852085 - a low cost solution from Actions.

Thanks to Socany - a Chinese MP3 player manufacturer, Sigmatel are now able to play video files. Their engineers have managed to develop new firmware that may supports video playback. With this new feature, it means that we may see more variations in low/mid end MP3 players with color LCD in near future. SigmaTel will definitely take back the market share soon as they have better quality!

{ via iMP3.net }

Just few weeks after launching of iPod Nano, there is a lot of complaints about easily scratched iPod Nano and some said they received iPod Nano with broken screen, just like this:

[Picture from Wikipedia]

Regarding these issues, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller has made such responce:

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Wow, the world is talking about iPod Nano now! Playlist has just posted the first impression on their new iPod Nano. It is a very general review, nothing much about its performance.

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