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 ]
June 23rd, 2006 by Chi An
Meizu Miniplayer (a.k.a Meizu M6) was getting a lot of attention since it was launched. And now, it is dissected by one of the owners. PCPOP has published some pictures of this naked Meizu Miniplayer 2GB.
Let see what is so special inside the Miniplayer!
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June 5th, 2006 by Chi An
Picture above shows an engineering sample of upcoming RAmos V100 PMP that features a 2.5″ low-temperature poly-silicon TFT LCD display. V100 is also the first flash-based PMP to play Real Media video. Besides, it also plays flash movie and comes with NES emulator.
Pictures below show the new RAmos V100 with case:
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May 31st, 2006 by Chi An
The first Rockchip-based model, RAmos RM100 is getting more attention due to it’s high cost/performance ratio. It is definitely a steal to get a RM100 512MB with 2″ TFT LCD for just RMB499 (approx US$62).
iMP3 recently reviewed the RAmos RM100 and gave it a high mark which is overall 5/6. It has a solid case surface and does play XVID video smoothly @ 20fps on its 2″ screen. However, it does not come with built-in FM tuner.
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May 26th, 2006 by Chi An
Meizu Miniplayer was officially launched in a press conference on 25th May 2006. Chinese iMP3 has received the sample unit of Miniplayer on the next day and posted some close up pictures. It is much more smaller than I expected. It is an iPodized PMP, indeed.
Let see some preview before the review to be done 
Meizu Miniplayer with iPod feel
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