LeapFrog’s Crammer is for students between the 3rd and 8th grades and are the U.S. equivalent of the Korean and Japanese e-Dic PMPs. It has a 2.5-inch low-resolution monochrome screen, plays MP3 music and 1GB of storage. Users navigate the interface using two buttons and a “click-screen that will remind you of the iRiver Clix. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Depending on how you look at it, Waysion Technology’s RoadEX N-4310-2 is a PND with PMP functions, or the other way around. We just hope that the thing really doesn’t display a mirror-image of the map, or you’re in for more than a few surprises. Anyway, it supports ASF, AVI, MPEG-4 and WMV videos, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 2, 2008
The GPS-288 from MTWO Technologies is, you guessed it, a portable GPS unit that happens to support MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVI, ASF and WMV videos, MP3, WMA and WAV audio files and JPEG, BMP, GIF and PNG images. The device incorporates a SiRF III module and an ARM9 core Samsung processor (400MHz standard, but the [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 22, 2007
Koreans seem to love their multi-purpose portable media players, and the W-700 series from Inkel looks like something that will fly off the shelves in no time. I don’t see why it won’t be a hit when it runs on a Dual Core CPU (360MHz+300MHz), and has Mappy United map software, 128MB DDR SDRAM, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 23, 2007
It’s been months since the COWON Q5W got previewed for the US-market and weeks since the rumors of its October release. Well, there’s good news for those of you who have been eagerly waiting for this super-PMP! The COWON Q5W is set to launch in the US next week for a whopping $549.99 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 24, 2007
Former vaporware iRiver G10 is finally coming to store shelves. Chinese manufacturer Thomson has already come out with a similar-looking gaming PMP, so what else is iRiver going to do? The G10 should be made available to Koreans by December and wil be distributed by KT Cooperation. The 4-inch 800 x 480-pixel 16-bit LCD [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 16, 2007
The site Negri Electronics is now offering the Meizu miniOne (M8) at a steal for $788.50, a $200 price cut from the month of June when the pre-order availability of the “Chinese iPhone” was announced. Negri Electronics is wishing there are people who hate Apple so much they’d shell out eight hundred buck for [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 3, 2007
Tradestead’s HDD Portable Media Player is, indeed, a PMP with a hard disk drive inside. Up to 30GB, actually. To supplement that, it also features 4MB of flash memory and 128MB of SDRAM. Video support is for MPEG4, DivX3/4/5 and Xvid files, while it can handle MP3, WMA and OGG audio formats with lyrics [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 30, 2007
The EL-GT-1249 from the Gyeonggi Small & Medium Business Center is said to be first and foremost a PMP, playing MPEG-4, MP3, WMA and ASF files. It also does GPS, allowing turn-by-turn voice guidance and door-to-door navigation. DVB-T/H and DMB broadcasts are supported as well. The device has a 4.3-inch touchscreen TFT LCD with [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 12, 2007
The first pictures of the Meizu miniOne Chinese iPhone Super Clone (a new phrase I recently coined for the M8). The Meizu M8 pictures, the Meizu BBS informs us, has been taken using a Nikon D50, which, incidentally, is a 6.1 megapixel Single-lens reflex digital camera with autofocus. According to the source, the M8 [...]
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Monday, February 18, 2008
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