China-based Ainol recently introduced the new T20, which aims to join the crowd in the Beijing 2008 Olympics Games. The company wish to stand out from others by providing analog tv tuner on it. Besides, the T20 also comes with video input, which allows you to watch video from cable tv. The suggested price for Ainol T20 2GB is RMB600 (approx US$83)
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I’d talked about several PMPs with NES emulator, one of those is Ainol V1000 Plus. It is now reviewed by iMP3 staffs. They have made the conclusion that V1000 Plus as below.
Pros:
Comes with fine quality display (2.5″ QVGA LTPS)
Feature rich application
Decent design
Cons:
Slow data transmission speed
Lack of media conversion software
The people of iMP3 probably left out one point. The V1000 Plus is cheap. For just RMB599 (approx USD76) or lower, you can get a 1GB player with these features!
We did report Iwod G10 PMP with NES emulator before. Now, Ainol also make their new V1000 to emulate more old school console games! The new V1000 is powered by ADI Blackfin series processors that runs at maximum 400Mhz. It allows you to play those oldtimes 8bit NES, 16bit SFC and Sega MD games.
Other than its gaming features, the V1000 also capable to playback AVi videos on a 2.5″ QVGA display. Besides the usual MP3 and WMA codec, it also supports FLAC lossless codec for better quality of audio experience.
Philips audio chips has gained high reputation in the industry after the successful implementation by Korean MP3 players such as iRiver and MPIO. Since then, some Chinese makers has marked their Philips-powered MP3 players as high quality products. Here is another one that do so, Ainol A6. It is built on Philips PNX0101 solution. Who knows if the quality is really good? The best thing is its cheap price. You can get an Ainol A6 512MB for just RMB399 (approx US$50) with nice packaging.
