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China PMP Ready to Collect Your Fingerprints

Quite possibly the most fingerprint-collecting PMP we’ve seen, the C200 from Asico Crafts supports AVI videos and MP3, WMA and WAV (with LRC lyric display and ID3 tags) audio files. The device is also available in black, which will probably be every bit as shiny as the silver version pictured above. The C200 incorporates a [...]

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Epoq Nextgen PMP

There’s news about another shiny new thing that will be demo’ed at the Consumer Electronics Association 2008 and it’s called the Epoq Nextgen. It comes with your standard PMP features: 3.0 inch TFT screen with 320×240 resolution, 4GB of internal memory, an SD slot, audio recorder, video format, and can support AVI, FLV, DAT, RMVB, [...]

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China PMP is not Digital Photo Frame, Supports 8-bit Games

Despite its photo-frame looks, the CVASQ-PMPT from Chinavasion does happen to be a PMP, with support for MPEG-4, WMV, RM and RMVB videos (320×240 pixels, 25fps), MP3, WMA and WAV audio files, and JPEG, GIF and BMP images. The device has a 3-inch touchscreen LTPS TFT LCD with an aspect ratio of 16:9. It comes [...]

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Sonwy (not a Typo) Releases 1.3MP Camera-Equipped PMP

Sonwy Technology (doesn’t that name remind you of some other company?) has released the MP4-008C, which plays MPEG-4 videos, and MP3, WMA, WAV and DRM9-equipped audio tracks. JPEG images can likewise be displayed. A 2.4-inch, 320×240-pixel TFT display with 260,000 colors is built-in, as is a 1.3MP camera with 5x digital zoom and a USB [...]

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Venus JXD 305 PMP Makes an Appearance

Venus is one MP4 manufacturer in China that we have covered a little too generously. Specs-wise, their media players aren’t very interesting. Mediocre video support with no attempt to posh up with a camera of monstrous megapixels. But we do love the box that JXD hardware design. The JXD305 is a follow-up of the Shiny [...]

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QKphone is Thick on the Features and the Copyright Infringement

QKphone is a dual-band GSM phone with the exterior that suggests it was either custom-made for Indiana Jones or a genuine production model straight out of retro sci-fi. Besides the illegal Mercedes Benz logo up front (not the first we’ve covered), I’m all sold on this Chinese gadget. Specs: - Two screens, one 2.8 inches [...]

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Philips SA6185 is Small and Cute (and that’s about it)

  Philips has never been a significant player in the PMP market, but they’re giving consumers another option with their new SA6185. What I like about this PMP is how small it is at 196mm x 30mm x 214mm and weighs .153 kg but otherwise, it’s got pretty standard features: 3.5″ LCD-display with 320 [...]

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China Digital Photo Frame Isn’t Meant for Just Moms

The DPF200 from Acetech Electronic Industrial isn’t one of those run-of-the-mill, cookie-cutter digital photo frames, as it comes with support for M-JPEG, MPEG-4 and DivX videos, MP3 and WMA audio files and JPEG images. The device has a 7-inch TFT LCD with a resolution of 480×234 pixels, a 300:1 contrast ratio and a [...]

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Shiro Intros Three New PMPs

We’ve covered a number of PMPs that resemble Shiro’s new debutantes. They are - for lack of a better word - “clones” of iPhone and iPod Touch but we are not here to judge but to inform consumers. Whether being an iPhone lookalike should keep a media player from consumer hands is debatable, what we’re [...]

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COWON N3 Boasts 7-Inch Touchscreen

The COWON N3 is another multi-featured PMP from COWON. From the information available now, the N3 does not have the same built-in connectivity options as the Q5, which is a PMP with WiFi, HSDPA and GPS as well as EDGE and GPRS connectivity. Powered by the same Alchemy AU 1250 600MHz and running Windows CE [...]

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