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MSI Digi Player 600 – Another iPod Shuffle Lookalike
May 10, 2006 MP3 Players, Others Players View Comments
MSI recently introduced their latest Digi Player 600 in Europe. It is a very typical iPod Shuffle lookalike MP3 player with display. Digi Player 600 only comes with 1GB of storage capacity. It features a tiny 65K colors OLED display, Fm tuner and voice recording that an iPod Shuffle doesn’t have. If you don’t mind the tiny screen, Digi Player 600 may also playback video for you!
MSI Digi Player 600 is now only available in Europe for 50.71 Euro (approx US$65), including VAT.
Popularity: 7% [?]
iRiver B10 and F10?
May 3, 2006 MP3 Players, PMP View Comments
Is iRiver making its iPod Killers? Again, a new iRiver product is found through Korean Radio Research Laboratory (RRL) approval list. A new model was added on 25th April.
It seems that iRiver is not just making B10. On 4th April, a member of Korean Naver mentioned that two new iRiver models will be releashed soon, which are iRiver B10 and F10. Both of them are seemed to be another WiBro products, both of them will be PMP that supports online games.
Watch out this space for more updates!
via [iRiverfans, Naver and MisticRiver ]
Popularity: 13% [?]
Matsunichi MF228 – Another Football MP3 Player
Apr 29, 2006 MP3 Players, Others Players View Comments
It’s about another 6 weeks to wait for Fifa World Cup 2006. If you’re a soccer fan, you probably take take a look at Matsunichi MF228. Matsunichi announced that its football MP3 player, MF228 will be available worldwide by 1st May 2006. It specs is almost same as Shiro AS, except its diameter. Matsunichi MF228 has a diameter of 45.2mm while Shiro AS is 37.4mm.
Specs:
- 80 x 48 OLED display
- Supports MP3, WMA, WAV audio playback
- Built-in FM tuner with 30 presets
- Voice recording, FM recording
- Built-in lithium-polymer battery
- Up to 10 hours battery life
- Stopwatch, timer
[Product Page via ZOL ]
Popularity: 9% [?]
Colorful Truly FD102
Apr 28, 2006 MP3 Players, Others Players View Comments
You probably seldom heard of Truly’s MP3 players. It is more well known to OEM BenQ‘s Joybee series. The company recently released a low-end FD102 with colorful cases. The colorful FD102 is built on SigmaTel’s STMP35xx solution. It features:
- White OLED display
- MP3, WMA, WAV audio playback
- built-in FM tuner with 30 presets
- USB 2.0 Full Speed
- SRS WOW supported
For RMB399 (approx $50), you can get a Truly FD102 512MB with SRS WOW supported. Pretty nice pricing huh 
via [ZOL ]
Popularity: 6% [?]
Sony CE-P Uses ALi Solution
Apr 27, 2006 MP3 Players, Sony View Comments
The new Sony CE-P series was speculated to be based on SigmaTel’s solution as it is manufactured by A-MAX, who has strategic partnership with SigmaTel. However, a member of iMP3 has discovered that it is powered by ALi M5661 solution. It is rare to see an ALi-powered MP3 player in the market, only Newman A50 found.
ALi’s M566x HS USB2.0 Controller with Audio DSP solution is developed to provide a cost-effective multi-mode solution for portable audio application with high-quality multimedia-level music/voice record & playback capabilities. With built-in high-performance programmable 24-bit DSP and Turbo MCU acceleration engine, embedded data buffers, highly-integrated USB2.0 controller and other integrated mix-mode features, ALi M566x HS USB2.0 Controller with Audio DSP solution enables a most compact and yet feature-rich design for state-of-the-art digital audio player turn-key solution .
More about ALi M5661
Popularity: 15% [?]
