Generation MP3 wasn’t so impressed with the iRiver E100, though we thought differently and believed it was a major competitor in the PMP market. They just recently reviewed the LPlayer. This PMP isn’t even available yet. It’s no Clix 2 successor but GMP3 is confident about the iRiver Player - they think of it as [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 2, 2008
Although Oracom announced the A9 and the A7 in short succession, the A10, which retains the design aesthetics of their predecessor with little change, took a year to get unveiled. The Oracom A10 is available in 4GB and 8GB versions. It’s a bigger PMP with a 3-inch TFT LCD. It has TV out, FM, mic, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 16, 2008
Korean-PMP-manufacturer Oracom is not as popular as COWON but rest assured this is a bona fide Korean manufacturer and its PMPs, though not revolutionary, is worth the 100 euros (2GB) and 115 euros (4GB) you pay for it. It’s a 2.4-inch 320 x 240-pixel touch screen player with MPEG, AVI, WMV, ASF, SMI, MP3, WMA, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 18, 2008
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...Wednesday, January 16, 2008
So what do you get for $19.99? First is a GPS substitute called Google Maps with WiFi triangulation. This is a pretty neat feature, especially when you’re in an area with a lot of WiFi devices. It’ll pin-point your location on your iPod Touch Google Maps interface without an actual GPS. Second, you will get email [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 10, 2008
Frankly, iRiver’s LPlayer makes use of its size better than the iPod Nano or any of the other PMPs in the market, including iRiver’s own Clix. Unfortunately, the LPlayer will not be using the new SPINN technology but will rock the old D-Click interface, which so far has been working brilliantly for iRiver (they’ll get [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 7, 2008
One of the shiniest PMP devices shown at CES is iRiver’s new PMP, the iRiver SPINN. This is not the first time we’ve shown you a gadget with the awesome “hinge” innovation. This isn’t exactly a hinge, but the idea is to make one-handed movie viewing comfortable, and another Japanese company, Sony, got [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 21, 2007
Our friends at GenerationMP3 tested a variety of PMP brands and came up with this hierarchy table of their sound-producing features. GMP3 has tested all of these devices so you can be sure that though they don’t claim total objectivity they know what they are talking about. The Clix 2 from iRiver took top honors [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Recently outed iRiver Clix Plus is now available in Korea adding two new colors to iRiver’s Clix PMP: Pink and Purple. The Clix Plus tunes in to DMB and DAB/ channels. You get te choice of a 4GB or an 8GB player for 218,000 won ($235) and 278,000 won ($300) respectively. It’s an important upgrade [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 3, 2007
There was a teaser from iRiver a few days ago that made us say, Hm. Another PMP from iRiver? Will it drop before Christmas? The answer is we’re not sure it’ll be available before Christmas, and, yes, it’s a new player, specifically the old Clix 2 with added DMB and DAV TV tuners. Dubbed Clix [...]
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