The washing machine and fridge maker has had it with the PMP market, apparently, as the sales of the iBiza Rhapsody may have indicated. Haier is now trying its hand on handset making and their H7 smartphone has chosen none other than Google’s Android to run. No idea on pricing and release. Screen is 2.7 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 11, 2009
Here’s a preview of two more new Rhapsody iBiza PMPs set to debut this year. The Ibiza Rumble comes with a 2.8-inch WQVGA capacitive touchscreen display, 8GB NAND flash, a Freescal i.MX37 ARM 11 processor and a Webkit-based browser. It supports a variety of formats which include AAC, MP3, and WMA, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H263, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 11, 2009
Haier is gearing up for a more serious entry into the portable player market. The iBiza Theater, besides supporting Rhapsody To Go, the company’s portable music service will play MPEG-4, AVI videos and MP3, WMA and Audible. If the sport version of the first iBiza Rhapsody player may does not do it for you, the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 4, 2008
We haven’t heard much about Haier’s iBiza Rhapsody after its rather hyped-up intoduction. The WiFi-enabled portable Rhapsody player, though, will not die just yet. I have to admit even from the very beginning that the idea is a good one. Maybe with the new sport version, things will look up on the sales side. The [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 3, 2008
Slacker is better than your iPod collection, because the customized channels of Internet radio like Slacker “know us better than we know ourselves.” Unlike the Haier iBiza Rhapsody, Slacker Portable does not have live music streaming via WiFi. It has WiFi, but Slacker Portable it does is save stations from your PC and uses WiFi [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Slacker radio is at CES ‘08 and the good news is, the Slacker Portable has an official release date. It’s been a long time to launching for Slacker Portable, but they’ve finally settled for a January 31st launching. The Slacker Portable is not the first Internet Portable Radio. It’s going to be in some stiff [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 16, 2007
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3PwwBB_-GU[/youtube] Our video review of the Ibiza Rhapsody gives you a closer look at this WiFi-enabled PMP and some of its features. Included in the vid are the things I like and don’t like about it, and why I think it might be worth buying. Read our other posts of the Haier ibiza Rhapsody. Or [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 9, 2007
I’ve been spending the past couple of days playing around with our Ibiza Rhapsody unit and I’ll be coming up with a video review within the week. Let me just say though, that I was awesomed off my pants the moment I first tried it. Internet radio in the palm of my hand! It was [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 6, 2007
Those who have pre-ordered the Slacker Portable are in for a major disppointment. The Slacker Portable player will be delayed. It will not be shipped at the target date of December 13. Instead shipment will be moved to January 31 of 2008. The portable Internet radio player isn’t quite as perfect as Slacker hopes. Remember [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 22, 2007
Amazon is now selling the ibiza Rhapsody at a reduced price. We don’t know if this will make it more competitive with the Zune and iPod. You know what we think of it and how we view its WiFi capablities. Currently, the player is out of stock in 30GB White, Blue, Black and Silver. [...]
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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