November 8th, 2005 by Chi An
MPIO recently announced that its latest MP3 player, FY700, will be released later this month. MPIO FY700 has applied Multi Level Cell (MLC) NAND flash in consumer market.

MLC technology may effectively double the capacity of flash memory and lower down the production cost. It seems to have more tough fight between Apple and Korean makers in future
{ via AVing Visual News }
November 7th, 2005 by Chi An
Japanese Evergreen has made a minor changes on its DN-CCMP series MP3 players. 512MB version of DN-CCMP (DN-CCMP512) is now available in Evergreen online store at the price 6,980 Yen (approx US$60). Meanwhile, prices of 128MB and 256MB version are reduced by 1,000 Yen to 2,980 Yen (approx US$25) and 4,980 Yen (approx US$42) respectively.

DN-CCMP is the MP3 player that intergrated with headphone. It plays MP3 audio files at 16~256kbps bit rates. With built in li-on battery, it can play up to 10 hours continuosly.
{ via AV Watch (babelfished) }
October 30th, 2005 by Chi An
Korean blogger, Xenix has written a detailed review on his Samsung Yepp YP-T7F. Well, babelfish did very bad in Korean translation! I hardly understand the whole article.
From pictures Xenix taken, we can know that YP-T7F has solid body and a friendly user interface. I believe Xenix is satisfied the 1.2″ TFT LCD screen, which capable to display 65K colors.

{ Reviewed by Xenix }
October 28th, 2005 by Chi An
While a lot of China manufacturers imitate others’ design, some of them is trying to prove their ability with their own design. Picture below is upcoming PMP of SVA - HM1000, which is patented.

HM1000 is powered by a 200Mhz DSP and 64MB SDRAM. The DSP (SD7001cb) is developed by SVA’s engineers. It is speculated to have 20GB of storage capacity with CF card supported. According to the source, HM1000 supports playback of real media(RM/RMVB) video!
{ via iMP3.net }
October 26th, 2005 by Chi An
We reported that Samsung YP-T55 appeared in Chinese website last week. Now, member of iMP3.net, Shoei, has spotted even more pictures of it!

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