Now why do I think that the Kenwood MG-F516, MG-F508 and MG-F504 MP3 players should be sold at under $100 for the highest capacity version? For one thing, there are a good number of fancier-looking DAP (digital audio players) out there and most of them in slimmer hardware. Kenwood, of course, is a well-known audio [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The mini-PMP itself from COWON, continuing the highly-rated iAudio line, is basic but look at how they packaged the iAudio 9. It’s a nifty box and I’m sure the player settles safely in there before you open it up and push the power button. Dominic of Dapreview has already managed to open up the package; [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 8, 2009
Security company Sophos has found an iPhone virus. Australians owning jailbroken iPhones have found that an unusual worm has infected their smartphones. The hacker’s name is apparently “ike_x” or “ikeeex” (according to his Twitter) and he has found a way to change the background of infected iPhones with a photo of Rick Astley. Here’s Sophos’ official [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 3, 2009
The Korean MP3 player maker SAFA has always been keen on design innovation. The first SAFA XING was one of the cutest DAPs we’ve written about. Though the XING didn’t exactly achieve an iPod-like popularity it didn’t stop SAFA from continuing the model. The SAFA XING LED looks like a departure from the original, but [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 24, 2009
Like us, a lot of you guys out there were probably impressed with the Maemo-powered Nokia N900, and couldn’t wait to get your hands on one. People in the US were a little bit more fortunate than us here in Asian as they’ve gotten word that the Nokia N900 will be available for retail this [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 22, 2009
Honestly, I don’t remember the exact date I began writing for PMP Today, but after almost three years and 4,000 posts, we can look back and tell ourselves that we have come so far. We started as a couple of part-time bloggers and even now we remain just
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 21, 2009
When the iPhone first came out, many noticed the toughness of the then glass touchscreen. Now it’s Microsoft’s turn to have an indestructible device. The Zune HD PMP is just such a device. One happy user tried his darndest to ruin the fabulous OLED touchscreen of ZuneHD only to fail after several spirited attempts, once [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 9, 2009
Details of the iRiver N20 has come out. The innovative pendant MP3 player from iRiver boasts a 120 x 56 PMOLED (passive matrix OLED) screen with four lines of data that should be good enough for text and simple icon displays. It measures 26 × 55.5 × 13mm and weighs at 35 grams. It can [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 5, 2009
If you’re interested in keeping Creative in the PMP market, the best you can do is purchase a ZEN X-Fi2, which is now available at Amazon. It’s a touchscreen PMP without the excitement being offered by the upcoming Zii EGG with the stemcell software. An X-Fi2 starts at $129.99. This is the 8GB model. The model [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 2, 2009
The iPhone Dev Team has just released Pwnage Tool 3.1.3, their latest iPhone 3.1 jailbreak, and while it still doesn’t work on Windows, you can now add iPhone 3G S and 2G iPod Touch compatibility to its list of features. There is a catch here though. Both device should have already been pwned before, either [...]
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Friday, November 20, 2009
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