It’s still a few months to go before we see the Archos 9 tablet on sstore shelves (October 22) but we would like to catch the complete specifications this early before handing our $500 to a retail store. You can’t find the Archos 9 specs list on the Archos site but some people in Europe [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, April 18, 2009
Looking for a boombox than can play videos too? The sexy-sounding HJ69 is a real sexy beast that’ll impress the hardest core mobile music fan. It’s also relatively light for a boombox at only 340 grams, well within portability range. Specs include a 3.5-inch TFT screen, RMVB and WMV support (among other codecs), Line-in recording, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 3, 2009
While Akihabaranews is good enough to note Chinavasion’s CVFH-N03-4G PMP and NES emulator, we are more impressed by this player, especially its $50 price tag. It’s an MP4 (24fps) and MP3 player (complete specs below) with a 1.3 MP camera and NES support. It also supports BIN, SAV gaming formats. It’s a really cheap NES [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 3, 2009
You can now go on over to JetMall and and maybe think hard about buying a COWON D2+. It’s not the most fashionable PMP out there and not the cheapest either, but it is a COWON. No opitions for color, there is only black. Storage options are 8GB ($139.99) and 16GB ($179.99). List of features from [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 26, 2009
Our friends at Dapreview found this one yesterday: a 160GB Archos 705 going for only $269.99 at Amazon.com, or almost half the original pricing. Dapreview has its doubts but after looking at the Amazon page, I have very little reason or none at all to doubt the price is official. Yep, Archos 5th generation prices [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 23, 2009
While Apple is enjoying the stock market limelight after beating Wall Street expectations, Microsoft is reporting a decline in Zune revenue to the tune of $100 million compared to last year or about 54%. Microsoft may be thinking it’s about time to rethink Zune as a platform for hardware and content business. The social isn’t [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 11, 2008
It looks like Apple is indeed pushing through with the release of iPhone firmware 2.2 and if the latest rumor is to be believed, we’ll see it go live on November 21st. Aside from the Google Maps Street View and new layout of Safari, you’ll also be able to turn off text auto-correction, download podcasts [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 24, 2008
Even before the iPod Nano 4G is officially announced by Apple, COWON would’ve killed it with the newly announced S9 Curve, a deliciously designed PMP in a metal casing. It has a 3.3-inch 480 x 272-pixel AMOLED screen, which is a capacitive touchscreen, and 500 MHz of dual-core processing power. T-DMB, G-Sensor (for gesture control) [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 24, 2008
Taijia may have been looking to compete with Sony’s PSP but what came out of their design lab was something else altogether. I’d say the hardware is a modified point-and-shoot 2 MP camera from five years ago and put gaming buttons on both sides of the view finder and some nasty gaming processor (unspecified). The [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Venus is promoting five cheap PMPs, some with very large screens and cameras added. The JXD951 has a 4-inch 16:10 LTPS screen and a 2 megapixel camera and 4GB of storage. You can take it home for only 599 yuan ($87). It supports Divx, Xvid and AVI at 720 × 480 pixels as well as ASF [...]
Continue reading...
Monday, July 27, 2009
1 Comment