Gold iPod Now Being Sold

As if you don’t already feel paranoid running with your iPod, Amosu is offering iPods in 24 carat hardened mirror gold casings. An 80GB iPod Video Black Front will set you back £399 ($800). iPod and iPod Nanos are also available. It’s a handy color when you’re planning to spend the weekend playing baccarat in [...]

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OPPO Announces A3

OPPO, one of the leading lights in Chinese PMP manufacturers, and maker of the recently announced Luna PMP, has come out with another PMP. The A3 does not use built-in storage so you might have to stack up on th SD cards. The 4.3-inch 480 x 272-pixel TFT screen ahs a widescreen 16:9 aspect ration [...]

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iPod Video Adds Ms. Pac-Man and EA Sudoku

Apple is slowly working its way into the gaming market via its fifth-generation iPod. Owners of iPod Video have been downloading “Tetris,” “Bejeweled,” and popular games like “”Mahjong,” and “Texas Hold ‘Em” for $4.99 a pop, a small price to pay to practice your clickwheel skills. EA Mobile bring Sudoko currently the hottest selling [...]

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Archos 704 WiFi Video Review

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECqECaOjk3Q[/youtube] This is a pretty comprehensive review of one of the best full-sized PMP in the market today, the WiFi-enabled Archos 704. The 704 is a light-weight (22 ounces) and fully-featured media player with an onboard Opera browser, multi-format video playing (including video on demand capability), music playing and a tasty 7-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen. [...]

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LG Prada Beating the Nokia N95?

Well, we were kinda thinking here at PMPToday that the Nokia N95 is the hottest selling cellphone model in the market today. But, as it turns out, another high-end model and LG’s touch-screen iPhone rival, the LG Prada, is topping the Mobile sales chart, beating the N95 . In the U.K., both phones made their [...]

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Iowa Senate Passes “iPod Tax”

The state of Iowa will now be imposing taxes for music downloads via the Internet. Dubbed as “iPod tax” it encompasses intellectual products such as songs, ring tones, software, audio books and other electronic products. There’s one catch however. As there is no way the Iowa government can watch online sales, it would strictly be [...]

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TAVI 030 Flip-Display mini-PMP Reviewed

The Tavi 030 belongs in the list of portable media players with a laptop flip-screen design. It actually won an award in 2006, and actually looks pretty cute when you’re carrying it around folded. It has a 3.6-inch screen with 16m colors and comes in either a 30GB or 60GB disk drive. It’s equipped with [...]

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Xent X3 Split Screen Reviewed

We’ve posted about Hyoncorp’s Navigation/T-DMB PMP with an antenna attached but now that pictures have come out without the extra metal appendage, our appreciation for its unique multi-functional display have added a new dimension. It’s with a more nuanced excitement that we take another look at this Korean PMP. It still the 7-inch WVGA 800 [...]

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Maxian D900T on Limited Korean Release

  The Maxian D900T will be released off line in a limited amount today, April 21st at 2:00 PM Korean time. The Maxian D900T has a 4.3-inch 800 x 480-pixel WVGA screen. This PMP is going for 449,000 won.  Apparently, this is one of the most important PMP releases in Korea. Besides the DMB tuner, the Maxian [...]

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Zune, Xbox and PC to be Connected for Gaming.

A “Multi-Component Gaming System” patent has been filed by Microsoft yesterday, which aims to connect all your devices such as Xbox, PC, Zune and PDAs. The very first claim in the patent is: “A gaming system comprising at least one gaming component, each gaming component being capable of stand alone operation, [...]

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