Victor Lu XA-AW33: Floating PMP for Your Bathing Pleasure

The Victor Lu XA-AW33 PMP has an ingress protection rating of IPX7 or in layman’s terms is water-proofed for your bathtub. It even has jellyfish-like bluish glitter to help you sleep while listening to music. Obviously, it isn’t a portable media player because it doesn’t have a screen and, presumable, no video file support as [...]

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Apple’s iPhone Set for a June 11 Release?

The world’s favorite media player + phone is going to be available June 11, according the CNET News. It was as simple as CNET calling Cingular’s customer service (800-947-5096) where a helpful sales manager spilled the beans. A June 11 iPhone release makes sense for CNET, this being the day WWDC07’s (Apple’s World Wide [...]

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Nokia N95’s First U.S. TV Spot and Poem

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS54VEJF5Gw[/youtube] This is the newly released N95’s first TV ad in the U.S. and as you can see, it has a much improved cool factor in comparison with the “World in Your Hands” commercial, which is also posted here after the jump. One can surmise that either Nokia uses a different advertising firm in the [...]

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Haier WiFi PMP Images From CTIA

American firm Haier is the maker of the Black Pearl MP3 Phone, one of the world’s most compact cellphones. Their new product, a Linux-OS WiFi portable media player has iPod form factor in a metal casing, which has improved from the smudge-prone stainless steel introduced in January. It’s got a QVGA LCD screen, 30GB [...]

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IMAX F202S - 4GB PMP with 2.0MP Camera.

It’s great to see that China is on the right path of increasing storage space on the new portable players from dinky 512MB or even 1GB. IMAX is putting out a player that will have 4GB internal flash memory, while keeping the SD card slot, so there will be plenty of space to play around [...]

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Aigo Manufacturer to Offer Music, Movies in China

Huaqi Information Technology Company, makers of the Aigo E828 2 GB MP4 player and the Aigo F335 30 GB MP4, is now a licensed music and movie distributor for their own line of PMP products. Aigo players are also available throughout the world and have recently forecast a 20 per cent increase in its Russian market [...]

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iRiver X20 Now in the U.K.

The iRiver X20 first announced for the Japanese market is now available in the U.K. for £149 for the 8GB mode (2 GB and 4 GB models are also available) from this website. And excellent music player with video playback , the X20 supports AVI and WMV and plays videos 30fps, plays MP3, WMA, [...]

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More Zune Updates: Market Share Slips

There’s more about the Zune firmware update today. In February, Zune’s market share has slipped to 8.7 per cent in the hard-drive based players market. While Zune still places second behind Apple’s iPod, Zune’s market share has been slipping since December 2006 when it had 10.2 per cent of the market. In January this [...]

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Zune Gets Firmware Upgrade

Microsoft has released Firmware 1.3 for its Zune. Hopefully the update will take care of the skipping problem some users have reported. Content from Zune Marketplace will, hopefully, no longer skip when you play them. The update will also improve syncing and detection by the player and the FM tuner will no longer be using up power [...]

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