While the rest of the regular iPhones have yet to get Flash support, those that have been given the iPhone 2.2 jailbreak treatment can already get the taste what life is with Flash. This is courtesy of the iMobileCinema app which isn’t quite perfect just yet but is probably as close as it gets to [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 30, 2008
COWON has released the specs of the delicious S9 Curve, otherwise known as the Korean iPod Touch Killer (our own coinage, actually). The 3.3-inch 480 x 272-pixel touchscreen is capacitive and supports 16 million colors. It will also have DMB and DAB, FM and A2DP Bluetooth. The UI is Flash-based and we already know the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 10, 2008
Clarion introduced its MiND (Mobile Internet Navigation Device) at CES, and it’s looking pretty good. The model has a 5.2-inch WVGA touchscreen LCD, an Intel Menlow platform (Silverthorne processor combined with Poulsbo Chipset), 256MB of DRAM and 4GB of flash memory. It comes with WiFi, Bluetooth (allowing handsfree use when paired with a phone), [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 24, 2007
The NDP group reports that save for the Apple iPod, US sales of media players showed considerable decline between November 18 and December 9. Dollar sales of mp3 players during this period were down 16% (compared to the same period last year) while unit sales declined 9%. NPD believes that this is due [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 28, 2007
A study by In-Stat reveals that Japan’s portable media player market will see strong growth over the next couple of years due to market drivers like inexpensive flash-based drivers, growing broadband penetration, and the increased availability of affordable and legitimate video and music online. Music-enabled mobile phones, however, cuts right into the market. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 13, 2007
I am an admirer of the Zune double-shot finish. I am not all that fond of the new iPod Nano colors. I think Apple chose the colors in weird lighting, but the new Zunes are bold, bright and, well, yummy. Now Microsoft is adding to the yumminess with an all-new Citron color for the flash-based [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Who doesn’t love an awesome product makeover? Microsoft just revamped the new Zunes and they’ve made a lot of interesting changes and additions. Here’s what’s in store for you in the Zune 2.0 lone up: Hard Drive Zunes The hard drive Zune is called the Zune 80 and, not surprisingly, it holds 80GB of [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 22, 2007
Microsoft has released some news on the probable directions that the second generation Zune 2.0 will be taking. There’s nothing definite yet, but one thing’s for sure–since Zune follows the cycle of consumer electronics, it’s likely that they’ll release a new model (either the 80GB model Scorpio or the Draco, the flash-based Zune) before [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 14, 2007
The rumor that Zune users will get monetary compensation for sharing music wirelessly is kind of old news; in fact, Gizmodo debunked it sometime late 2006. For those of you who haven’t heard about it, the idea behind the pay-to-share gimmick is this. Let’s say I’ll send you a song from my [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Here’s one way to maximize your Clix Rhapsody, a new 8GB memory capacity. South Korea’s iRiver just announced the impending arrival of the 8Gb version of its latest hotness, the Clix 2 (which we mentioned previously). Formerly available in only 2Gb and 4Gb capacities, the model boasts a customizable Flash-based interface and the company’s D-Click [...]
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
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