Philips GoGear Muse Announced
Jul 19, 2009 MP3 Players, PMP, Philips
Philips recently introduced the new GoGear Muse, which comes with FullSound and noise-cancellation. The new GoGear Muse has a similar layout of previous GoGear Ariaz. The size is bigger than Ariaz to fit its 3″ LCD 262k colors screen. The screen runs at 400 x 240 resolution that may display up to 7 lines of text. GoGear Muse also comes with Philips AY3831 noise-cancellation earbud to give you better audio experience. Its 750mAh polymer li-on battery can last up to 25 hours and 5 hours for audio and video playback respectively.
Media Formats Supported:
- Audio: MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, OGG, APE, FLAC, RA
- MPEG4 SP/ASP: D1 resolution @ 30fps, 4Mbps bitrate, AVI & MP4 extension
- MPEG4 AVC/H.264: VGA resolution @ 30fps, 1.5Mbps bitrate, MP4 extension
- RMVB: VGA resolution @ 30fps, 1Mbps bitrate, RMVB extension
- WMV9: VGA resolution @ 30fps, 1Mbps bitrate, WMV extension
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Popularity: 3% [?]
ICOO V616 2GB Just $15
Mar 18, 2009 MP3 Players, Others Players
AOC recently announced the company new ICOO V616 MP3 player, which aims on entry level market. Its size looks small, and has a mono color OLED screen. The company claims that it has long battery life for audio playback. Not much detail disclose, other than its dirt cheap price. It costs only RMB99 (approx US$15) for 2GB.
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Popularity: 17% [?]
iPod Shuffle Only Works with Apple Earphone?!
Mar 16, 2009 Apple, MP3 Players
Guys at Boing Boing dissects the earphones of the new iPod Shuffle, and found a tiny chip, coded 8A83E3. It could be just a normal chip that read and transmit a button click to a digital signal. As the new iPod shuffle has no button on the device, all the functions are controlled by its earphones. It seems Apple is making advantage from its 70% of the market share. The company can make a decent revenue by just turning the earphone chip into a licensing scheme!
By adding such a chip to headphones, Apple could force third-party manufacturers to pay fees to make headphones for its iPod Shuffle—after all, the device has no controls, so normal headphones are useless.
[ Boing Boing via CrunchGear ]
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Popularity: 17% [?]
Credit Card Sized MP3 Player
Mar 16, 2009 MP3 Players, Others Players
This is a credit card sized MP3 player made by some Japanese brand. It has a OLED display with dimension of 85 x 54 mm. It’s thinnest part is about 3mm. If not because of the 3.5mm audio jack, I won’t realize it is actually not a credit card. It’s really thin huh?!
Well, no other information disclosed about this little thing.
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Popularity: 19% [?]
Philips Mix Announced
Mar 11, 2009 MP3 Players, Philips
Earlier we reported that Philips Mix will be available soon. Now we have a closer look at it. Well, it is a very basic digital audio player, which bring you back to old school day. It is small and light-weighted, about 26g. It is said that this little thing plays audio up to 25 hours continuously. For those left-handed, Philips does care about you. There is a setting to flip the OSD 180 degree.
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Popularity: 7% [?]