Silicon Labs - First fully-integrated FM radio transceiver in a single chip.

Announced as the industry’s first, a single-chip FM radio transceiver family has been introduced by Silicon Laboratories. The proven, patented digital architecture of the Si472x transceiver combines the functionality of the Si470x FM radio receiver with the Si471x FM radio transmitter in a single 3mm x 3mm x 0.55mm package. Competing solutions require at least [...]

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Ford Teams Up With Microsoft to Deliver Sync.

DETROIT, Jan. 7 — Ford Motor Company today announced the launch of a new factory-installed, in-car communications and entertainment system that is designed to change the way consumers use digital media portable music players and mobile phones in their vehicles. The Ford-exclusive technology based on Microsoft Auto software, called Sync, provides consumers the convenience and flexibility [...]

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Review: Samsung YP-T9b portable media player

Once again, Apple is accountable for geek hysteria with the announcement of its multi-faceted iPhone; rumoured for a UK launch Christmas 2007. However, cast your gaze beyond the horizon of white headphones and you’ll see some new challengers to the throne; including Samsung’s ultra smart YP-T9b. With prices starting at £89 for a 1Gb model and rising [...]

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Sandisk Sansa C250 MP3 player

Sandisk have been doing a good job of releasing portable music players that provide a good deal of flexibility. The Sansa is a budget 2GB model that may not play back video, and needs to be used with the custom USB cable, but otherwise does a good job of providing an alternative to the iPod [...]

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PMP Today is a weblog concentrating on bringing the most current news and reviews of the portable media player products. Along with the news in this rapidly growing market, PMP Today will be reviewing products by the leading companies, as well as the numerous newcomers. What will be covered? Everything from technological advances, new product releases [...]

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Cowon D2 premium digital media player.

Time was when Asian digital media players scored highly for the range of features they offered but rated dismally when it came to their looks. Cheap-looking silver-painted plastic, too many buttons, crude on-screen graphics - it’s no wonder the iPod’s clean lines and simple UI took off… Times have changed, and the players coming out of [...]

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Teclast T59

Touch screen windows CE based PMP with WiFi, GPS and DMB

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Archos 704 photographed in the wild.

Hot on the heels of Archos releasing the source code for its Generation 4 lineup of portable media players comes a bevy of snapshots of the company’s elusive 704 “mobile DVR,” complete with claims that it’s already available for purchase in some parts of the world. While we’d seen a few grainy photos of the [...]

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Sony’s NW-A800 Series outed.

Things are finally heating up on the Sony DAP front, with those NW-A800 players we’ve been hearing about finally getting their first spy shots thrust into the public eye by the shameless Sony fanboys at ATRACLife. Not a lot of info can be divulged just yet, other than those 2-8GB capacity and 10 hour video battery [...]

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iRiver X20 Media Player.

iRiver has a new PMP that will be available in Japan in a few weeks called the iRiver X20, which is another nice product from iRiver, but with no features that really that stand out as exceptional from the rest. The X20 has all the features you would expect in an audio and video playing portable [...]

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