August 23rd, 2006 by Chi An
Forget about the Miniplayer clone. There is a rumor says that Meizu to make new version of Miniplayer, called Miniplayer 2. It is expected to have 2.6″ LCD display, and runs Windows CE on its 533Mhz core.
Besides, Meizu also plans to introduce the new Music Card (M3), which is a cut-down version of Miniplayer without video playback function. The Music Card will have 1.3″ OLED display instead of 2.4″ QVGA LCD. The Music Card will not comes with FM tuner built-in. All these cut-down has made it to have thickness of 6.9mm!
[ via ZOL ]
August 23rd, 2006 by Chi An
Is Meizu making its Miniplayer smaller? No! Let see properly. It is the new Zino 810 which hass similar design with Meizu’s Miniplayer but in smaller dimension. It sizes 74mm x 48mm x 9.3mm and weights only 40g. From the given specification, it is most likely based on the new Rockchip solution.
We have MSC Dino A that cloned iPod Nano. And now, we have Zino that ripoff Miniplayer!
Zino 810
[ via iMP3 ]
August 21st, 2006 by Chi An
Motorola m25
I’m sure you probably more familiar with Motorola cellphones, but what about its MP3 player? I personally don’t know anything about it until I read a review on Motorola m25 by sagapodk of iMP3.
Probably, you may find that this m25 looks familiar. You are right, the m25 is made by Rio. Even the bundled software is also powered by Rio! Thus, the quality is also backed by Rio 
Well, let see what is inside in it!
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July 15th, 2006 by Chi An
China-based Actions Semiconductor will soon announce its new ATJ2098 chip, which is an upgrade version of ATJ2097. It will be mainly made to improve the stability and the size of the chip. The new ATJ2098 will packaged at LQFP 80 pins. Its dimension is about 10 x 10mm. There is no new feature is reported so far.
Meanwhile, Delux Technology is going to release a new iShow which is based on this new chip. Its features are most likely with other ATJ2097-based players, but with an 1.8″ 260K colors TFT LCD. It does play video at resolution of 160 x 128.
Delux iShow
Stay tuned. We will keep you updated on this new solution 
[ via iMP3 here, here ]
July 8th, 2006 by Chi An
Do you still remember LG’s Shuffle-lookalike UP3? Well, the Korean giant has just another added two members into this series, which are UP3 Flat and UP3 Sharp accordingly.
LG UP3 Flat is a screen-less MP3 player but just LED indicators. It does playback MP3, WMA (DRM supported), OGG, and ASF audio. Its built-in battery allows up to 10 hours of playback continously. The dimension of UP3 Flat is 78 x 24 x 9.5mm.
LG UP3 Flat
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