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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, PMP, Philips 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
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Popularity: 3% [?]
Philips China Annouces GoGear SA065
Mar 26, 2009 PMP, Philips 1 Comment
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.
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Popularity: 18% [?]
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
Popularity: 15% [?]
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.
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Popularity: 17% [?]