The MP3 Players

It has been quite some times since we talked about thte Meizu Music Card. Finally, it is unveiled to the public. Like its big brother - Meizu Miniplayer, it comes with black and white color. If it has a Clickwheel button, it will pretty much a iPod Nano cloned

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We did tell you about Meizu Music Card few months ago. And now, we have a little bit more details on it. Picture below shows the partial of the upcoming Meizu Music Card (a.k.a M3). It is slim as 6.9mm and width 39mm, which is quite close with the iPod Nano. The source also reported that the M3 front panel will have 3 buttons.

Well, should be call it just another iPod Nano rip off? Probably not, it does play WMA Lossless where iPod Nano doesn’t do it

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Forget about the Miniplayer clone. There is a rumor says that Meizu to make new version of Miniplayer, called Miniplayer 2. It is expected to have 2.6″ LCD display, and runs Windows CE on its 533Mhz core.

Besides, Meizu also plans to introduce the new Music Card (M3), which is a cut-down version of Miniplayer without video playback function. The Music Card will have 1.3″ OLED display instead of 2.4″ QVGA LCD. The Music Card will not comes with FM tuner built-in. All these cut-down has made it to have thickness of 6.9mm!

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Yahoo Japan launched a new online music service Monday. To compete with Apple’s iTunes Music Store in Japan, the latest service allows free streaming of any of 100,000 songs before buying them.

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Other Internet music services in Japan offer only 30 seconds from free sampling, making Yahoo’s the first to offer free listening to full-length songs, Yahoo Japan spokesman Masaki Hanyu said.

However the quality of free music is only comparable to FM radio. Higher quality of musics are only available for paid download. The free offering also generate advertising revenue to Yahoo Japan. Toyota Motor Corp. and Asahi Breweries Ltd. are lined up to advertise on video commercials preceding the free songs.

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As reported before, Apple has launched its iTunes Music Store (iTMS) in Japan on 4th Aug 2005! At the press conference at Tokyo, Steve Jobs announced that iTMS is live with million songs in AAC format.

These songs are from 15 record companies, where 90% of them are sold for 150Yen (approx US$1.35) each and the less are 200Yen (approx US$1.80) each.

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