March 26th, 2009 by Chi An
Philips’ distributor and OEM partner in China, Keen High Technologies Ltd, recently announced the upcoming GoGear SA065 during annual meeting with their dealers. An engineering sample was introduced to the dealers during the event. The source reported that the new GoGear SA065 will be powered by Rockchip RK2706B solution and supports China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB) standard.
There is also another PMP device, GoGear SA054 in the company roadmap. However, there is no sample showed in the event. The proposed SA054 supports TV-Out with better YUV instead of a common CVBS. Probably, we’ll see something with HDMI output in near future also.
[ via iMP3 ]
March 24th, 2009 by Chi An
We’ve seen the real SmartQ 5, and we know that it runs on localized Ubuntu. What will you get for paying RMB899 (approx US$132)?
For the price of a iPod Nano
, you’ll get a so-called MID powered by Samsung ARM11 S3C6410 667Mhz, 128MB DDR memory and 1GB of flash memory. It features a 4.3″ Touch Lens screen at 800 x 480 pixel resolution. Though you can’t make a phone call through this device, you still connect to the world with its WIFI 802.11b/g and Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR modules. It also supports USB OTG, USB Host and up to 32GB of SD card extension.
It looks quite promising, but the bad thing is that it only available in China now. I think I find some way to get this device 
We have some screenshot here (Thanks to fellow in ZOL)
The interface
Bluetooth Manager
Wifi Manager
More screenshot after the jump
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March 10th, 2009 by Chi An
Here is how the actual SmartQ 5 look like. There are no more fake photoshoped images. The SmartQ 5 is not just an PMP, probably a MID as the company claims. But you can’t make a phone call from this device.
The SmartQ 5 runs on its own Linux distro. It features a 4.3″ touchscreen display at 800 x 480 resolution. It supports WIFI and Bluetooth connectivity. It has also FBReader installed. After all, it only cost you RMB899 (approx US$132)!
[ More images at iMP3 ]
March 4th, 2009 by Chi An
Cowon D2+ is now officially available for US folks, with the similar price tag of previous Cowon D2. The price is $139.99 for 8GB model, and $179.99 for 16GB model. As other Korean-made PMPs, you’ll not able to find DMB TV module in this model. You can order the PMP through Cowon’s US storefront, JetMall now!
Specifications:
- 8 or 16GB, and support SDHC extension memory
- 2.5″ Touchscreen display @ 320 x 240, 16M colors
- Support MP3, WMA, Ogg, FLAC, WAV audio
- Support MPEG-4, AVI, WMV video, with TV-out
- Up to 52 hours for audio, 10 for video of battery life
[ via DAPreview ]
March 2nd, 2009 by Chi An
This is the first hand experience of iMP3 member on his new Ainol V6000HDA. The so-called HD PMP is not really HD actually. The 4.3″ screen display at 800 * 480 resolution, a weird 15:9 ratio. Playback for RMVB and FLV is fine, but it’s terrible when comes to AVI movie. Most of the AVI movie can’t even be loaded. Its plastic casing is just as good as a thumbprint scanner. Audio is basically below the par. Luckily, it’s not all bad. The TV-out is working fairly good when output the video signal to a 16:9 CRT television.
[ via iMP3 (babelfished) ]
