A new touchscreen smartphone has been introduced in Korea. remember folks, both the Koreans and Japanese are well ahead of the rest of the world in mobile technology, so this new line of mobiles are pretty exciting. The W Phone will be distributed by subsidiary SK Telecom and will fetch an equivalent of $518 per [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 17, 2009
The new touchscreen Atree J100 looks incredible. With 3 inches of screen space, you get to enjoy some widget and calendar action using Atree’s new Flash GUI. The J100 is also an e-dictionary and of course full PMP functionality, playing AVI, DivX, Xvid and WMV among other video files. It comes with a microSD expansion [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 7, 2009
It doesn’t say Nvidia Tegra anywhere but we know it’s there and, besides the OLED, it’s the most interesting feature of the new YP-M1 PMP. According to Akihabaranews, the Samsung M1 is already on sale in Korea, with DMB TV added. The capacity comes in three versions: 8GB, 16GB and 32GB. The M1 plays WMV, [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 1, 2009
The Nvidia Tegra chip set may soon be as ubiquitous as touchscreen controls but right now we’re still giddy about the possibility of a high-powered portable player. The previously leaked Samsung M1 may be one of the first PMPs to have the Nvidia Tegra chip inside. The Korean Samsung Mobile site has the newly announced [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 11, 2009
The 4.3-inch touchscreen and WiFi-enabled iRiver P35 PMP finally has a 32GB version available. It features the SPINN control and the delightful Magazine UI. For about $389 in Korea, looks likely to be distributed in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world. With the additional microSD supporting up to 16GB cards, it’s a pretty good [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 9, 2009
The new user interface dubbed “Magazine” by iRiver will have another hardware showcasing it. The iRiver NV Classic seems unperturbed by the new iPhone 3G S, which features a built-in compass and turn-by-turn navigation. Theoretically, an all-in-one computer like the iPhone can drive a device like the iRiver Classic out of business, but perhaps drivers [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 22, 2009
So the leaked photo was genuine. The iRiver B30 has now officially surfaced. The B30 succeeds the B20, a PMP with mobile TV so expect that the antenna on this one is a permanent fixture. It looks like a sleek device but one would expect a bigger screen for a mobile TV. Instead, we only [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Korea has plenty of e-dictionaries on sale right now and their numbers just got bigger with the introduction of a Windows XP e-Dic. The M1D (M1D-101KWA) still falls under the mbook model of makers UMID and in fact shares the same hardware as the M1 mbook but shaved .2GHz in processor speed and sans the [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 9, 2009
Some iRiver watchers think they have spotted the E200 and B30. These models are just speculation for now but photographic evidence has us wondering if a refresh of a relatively old model and a relatively new model is coming soon. The iRiver B30 will succeed the B20, which was a PMP and portable TV. No [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The new iRiver D7 (from the Dicple line of e-Dictionaries) is a smaller device of the same form factor as the D50n announced last CES. The D7 has a 3-inch 480 x 272 touchscreen, PMP and e-dic functionality as well as optional DMB. It looks like a great video and music player with 30fps video [...]
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Monday, November 9, 2009
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