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Creative Zii Egg Announced
Jul 30, 2009 Creative, MP3 Players, PMP Leave a comment
Creative is at last being more creative as the new Zii Egg announced. The new Creative Zii Egg is the world first StemCell computer. It is Creative’s first touchscreen player, which is powered by ZMS-05 processor. It features a 3.5″ multi-touch screen and capable to output video in 1080P.
Don’t be surprise that for as low as $199, you’ll get bunch of features, such as Wi-Fi b/g, Opera browser, X-Fi, Open GL ES, dual camera, and much more. It comes with a SDK platform call ‘Plaszma’, which provides all the developer tools, libraries, documentation and sample CODECs needed to create the next generation of media-rich networked applications. A Zii-optimized Android will be included as well.
Zii Egg is actually developer version device which aim for OEM manufacturers, who need a market-ready player and easy platform. Creative Zii will be introduced for the mass market.
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Philips GoGear Muse Announced
Jul 19, 2009 MP3 Players, Philips, PMP Leave a comment
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
[ via iMP3 ]
Philips China Annouces GoGear SA065
Mar 26, 2009 Philips, PMP 2 Comments
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 ]
SmartQ 5 Hands On
Mar 24, 2009 PMP Leave a comment
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
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
ICOO V616 2GB Just $15
Mar 18, 2009 MP3 Players, Others Players Leave a comment
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.
[ via iMP3 ]
iPod Shuffle Only Works with Apple Earphone?!
Mar 16, 2009 Apple, MP3 Players Leave a comment
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 ]
More reading:
iPod Shuffle 3rd Gen Reviewed by CNet
iPod Shuffle 3rd Gen Dissected by iFixIt
iPod Shuffle 3rd Gen Deals
Credit Card Sized MP3 Player
Mar 16, 2009 MP3 Players, Others Players 6 Comments
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.
[ via PCPOP ]
Philips Mix Announced
Mar 11, 2009 MP3 Players, Philips Leave a comment
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.
[ via iMP3 ]
Sneak Peek at SmartQ 5
Mar 10, 2009 PMP Leave a comment
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 ]
Thanko Sport MP3 Introduced
Mar 9, 2009 MP3 Players, Others Players 3 Comments
Japanese Thanko recently announced the new headphone-style MP3 player, Sport MP3. It has 2GB of memory, and plays MP3, WMA, WAV audios up to 5 hours continuosly. It is also light-weighted, only 42g. It won’t burden you while you’re excising.
It only costs 4980 Yen (approx US$50). Not a bad choice for the sport lover on the move huh
[ via AV Watch (babelfished) ]
