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HandHeld Entertainment, Inc., the makers of portable media players like the ZVUE 250 above and owners of various content sites (Putfile.com, YourDailyMedia.com, FunMansion.com™, Dorks.com™, ZVUE.com™) has added another user-generated humor website to its business. UnOriginal.co.uk is a unique site wherein the submitted content are made up of clips of originals edited for humorous effect.

Jeff Oscodar, president and chief executive officer of HandHeld Entertainment, explains HandHeld’s plans: “With the acquisition of UnOriginal.co.uk, HandHeld Entertainment now has three Web sites based in Europe, with two of those sites based in England, making us one of the top providers of user-generated comedy content in the United Kingdom and Europe.

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The Conet 256 MB MP3/ MP4 Player has a unique 1.5-inch 65K true-color CSTN screen, a lower-quality LCD that cheaper to produce than TFT LCDs, which is why Overstock can give this player away for only $29.99. The Conet plays MP3, WMA, WAV and ASF audio files and MP4 MWV, MPG, MPEG and AVI video files, has seven preset EQ and supports multi-play modes normal, repeat one, folder, repeat folder, repeat all and random.

More Stats on the player after the break…

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According to iSuppli Corp. Global, the portable media player market is going to double from $14 billion in 2005 to $20.6 billion in 2010.

- Global PMP/MP3 player shipments will go up to 268.6 million units in 2011 at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 13% from 128.7 million units in 2005

- In 2007, PMP shipments are expected to rise to 216.9 million units, up 21.8% from 178.1 million in 2006. Read the rest »

Also called the Portable HQV Media Player, The PMP2000 in the picture above from GeCube has a 4.3-inch LCD display with integrated touch sontrol, AV output, built-in mic, and comes without storage so you can fit any 2.5-inch hard diskof your choosing. Read the rest »

The much anticipated release of the Meizu Music Card, also known as M3 is finally here. Even though it’s a little bit over a month later then the expected release date, a lot of the electrnics stores in China now have the M3 on their shelves. With the news also come the official price confirmations: 500/599/899 CNY which is about $65/$80/$120 for the 2GB/4GB and 8GB versions.

After the break check out a bunch of pictures of the actual units along with a nice size comparison to iPod Nano, cigarettes, business cards and we even see some macro shots of the controls and ports. The guys at HandPop always get some great images.

We also added a video by Charbax from CeBIT 2007 with some hands-on action.

[via Meizu News / HandPop (both links in Chinese]

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After the demo of the technology at CES, Texas Instruments have allowed people to take pictures and get more details on the new DLP pico-projector which they think will find applications in cellphones. Here’s some more info from CNet:

“The projector contains three lasers, a DLP chip and a power supply and measures about 1.5 inches in length. With the projector, the cell phone can beam DVD-quality video onto a screen or a wall, thereby allowing it to serve as a video player or a television. By using the projector, the actual “screen” size can be much larger than what a person would get by using the LCD panel integrated into the phone. The chip inside the phone, in fact, could drive images for a widescreen television.”

[via CNet News]

Charbax, the ubiquitous video tech reporter strikes again with a hands-on video of Tinnos Bluefin, a PMP, MP3 player and PDA all in one. Unfortunately the user interface is in Korean. Charbax has been our correspondent at CeBIT and has contributed quite a numerous amount of video reports at PMP Today. Here’s Charbax other dispatches about the Commodore Gravel and the lubi.

For more details of the Blufin, check out our previous post, also with an old promotional video.

For the ultimate portable media experience, one has to have an all-you-need DVD-copying software handy. DVD X Studios’ CloneDVD is the world’s most popular software for copying DVD’s, according to their site, and they have just released CloneDVD version version 4. Read the rest »

The GlobalSat GV-380 is another portable navigation device that was available at CeBIT 2007 for hands-on viewing. Aving got a few great photographs as usual, including a shot of the 4.3-inch LCD screen. The SiRF Star III GPS chipset and 400 Mhz of computing power takes care of the navigation side. For entertainment, car owners get DVB-T digital TV.

We see this going on almost on daily basis here at PMP Today, but we were pretty surprised by seeing that a company does not deny copying another product, and even flaunts it in their official shots. The guys at Engadget are right, the ripping off the iPod design has become way to common, so why not go after another popular product like LG’s Chocolate phone.

In any case, we checked out the original source of the news and picked up a bunch of other pictures and translated all the stats, so you can check the out after the break.

[via engadged / mp3players / imp3]

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