The MP3 Players

According to the press release, the users can search music, menu and pictures stored in the phone by turning the wheel-shaped jog-disk. Besides, the users will be provided a music controller for remote control.

The phone is featured with 50MB of internal memory. An extra 256MB of external trans flash memory card will be provided. The sound quality will be enhanced by its dual speakers.

{ via Telecoms Korea }

Major Japanese record companies, including Columbia Music Entertainment Inc., Avex Group Holdings Inc. and Toshiba-EMI Ltd., have agreed to provide songs for the service. However, Sony Corp.’s Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. has yet to agree on contract terms with Apple, it said.

Apple has sold nearly half of billion songs in 19 countries since the launch of iTunes in the United States two years ago.

{ via Reuters India }

Chairman Steve Jobs said Sunday night that support for the radio-like programs downloaded from the Internet will be included in the next version of the iPod software, iTunes, due within 60 days.

Jobs made his announcement at “D3: All Things Digital,” a technology conference sponsored by the Wall Street Journal in San Diego. His remarks were reported by several technology journalists in the audience.

The Apple chairman was “slightly dismissive of populist programming,” said Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media Inc., a technology publishing company.

“Current plans call for podcasts to be free downloads,” wrote Mena Trott, co-founder of Six Apart Inc., and also in the audience. “Users will submit their podcasts and Apple will be hand picking the content it makes available to iTunes users.”

Before his speech, Jobs also met with Adam Curry, the former MTV disc jockey who has tirelessly promoted creation of radio-like programs for download. Later in his own podcast, Curry reported he was “able to provide a lot of input,” and told Jobs the iPod hardware should also record. “I can guarantee you this is going to happen,” Curry said.

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But we were further amazed by MP3 -FM transmitter that works the same as iTrip for the iPod. Mp3 songs stored on the internal or expandable memory can be streamed to your car’s FM tuner by using the any unused frequency band.

{via Sounds & Pictures Magazine, Malaysia}

Wow, now a mobile phone not just play MP3, but works as a FM transmitter also

Shure have just released their E4c earphones. These are the in-ear type with various mouldings (sleeves) that fit on to the actual phones so you can get a comfortable fit.

The E4c’s do superbly and it seems that bass, midrange and treble have all improved. A big advantage of using in-earphones is that they block off almost all external sound (which can be detrimental to your health if you use them in a situation where you need to hear things going around you). Not being distracted by external noise means the volume of the device you’re listening to can be turned down, which has two advantages i) battery life is extended and ii) more importantly, there is less distortion and notes sound truer.

While sitting on the underground you could just hear the station announcements on the public address system, but not much else. The music playing was ambient dance music and you could really make out the nuances etc. Unfortunately the only downside of blotting out everything made you realise even more how miserable everyone looked.

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“Wow, another great earphone from Shure”

This is my first impression of the Shure’s E4c. You have no doubt against the quality of Shure’s stuffs. if you want excellent sound reproduction, noise isolation and good looks, go for it. But remember, the retail price is around US$370 USD299.99!