The MP3 Players

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 ]

Just after few hours I pointed out the latest iPod Nano ripoff, an Alibaba trade lead of exactly same item hit my mailbox. A manufacturer from Shenzhen, China had sent me a message about its clone iPod Nano.

According to the information provided, the fake iPod Nano is built on Action’s ATJ-2085 solution. It features Samsung’s NAND chips, which varies from 256MB to 1GB. You can get it for as low as US$35 ( or maybe lower) if you could make volume purchase.

I believe you may see more and more this kind of ripoff soon as this model will be the so-called public model. Most of the manufacturers are able to clone it!