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Samsung YP-R1 PMP Unboxed and a Review

Thursday, August 20, 2009

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Moveplayer in Korea has first dibs on the Samsung YP-R1. They’ve been sent a live one and they enthusiastically peeled off the packaging and take photos of the dirty business. It’s got a tiny form factor (see photo below) that will suit people looking for a pocket-friendly PMP. That’s why Samsung is only giving us [...]

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SE Idou 12.1 Megapixel Cyber-Shot/ Walkman Phone?

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

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Sony Ericsson’s Idou touchscreen phone still sounds unbelievable to me, so pardon my rather gratuitous use of the question mark. The Idou (pronounced ee-doo) is both a Walkman phone and a Cyber-Shot phone (similar in some respects to the C905 Cyber-Shot), with respective user interfaces available in one touchscreen model. It will use Symbian Foundation, [...]

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Acer Tempo M900, F900, DX900 and X960 Smartphones

Monday, February 16, 2009

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MWC ‘09 will be known for all the smartphone announcements, not least of which are Acer’s  foursome WinMo 6.1 smartphones. The Tempo series will begin with the X960, M900, DX900 and the F900. All Tempo smartphones will run on Windows Mobile 6.1. and have touchscreens. The Tempo M900 is the most fully featured of the set [...]

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eMotion Solar PMP Review

Thursday, March 13, 2008

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Solar-powered PMPs could be the device of the future and eMotion Solar PMP is one device that is on the right track. The funny thing is, this is not the first incarnation of the exact same solar PMP design. We have spotted this device a couple of times (go here and here) in wholesalers sites. [...]

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Nokia N96 Slated for Q3

Monday, February 11, 2008

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The missing Nseries is here. The Nokia N96, not disappointingly, takes a lot of aesthetic cues from the N81 but moves like the N95. Yep, it’s a dual slider and does multi-media much like the N95 only better. First off is the 5 megapixel Carl Zeiss with autofocus. Almost no improvement until you start using [...]

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Provia A7 Has Swappable Face Plate

Sunday, February 10, 2008

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We’ve seen a Provia PND before, the A1, and that wasn’t a long time ago. Now the Korean maker has the A7, which boasts a faceplate that you can swap. It’s a nice touch, but nicer still is the multi-media features of this GPS device. The 7-inch LCD has a 800 x 480-pixel resolution, [...]

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iPhone Clone W/ Kick Stand

Thursday, February 7, 2008

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Here’s one Chinese PMP manufacturer that does its iPhone cloning with some originality… putting a kickstand at the back The MP42818 Mp4 from Elijah Industrial is a touch screen MP4 player that “handles writing,” which we take to mean it supports stylus input and quite possibly even handwriting recognition. The 2.8-inch screen gives users 352 [...]

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PMP Model of the Month: Blue Magic Q12

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

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  We’ve met the Blue Magic Q12 girl before but we knew her as the RAmos miniQ biki beauty, one of five, actually (click here if you want to see the others), so we’re quite thrilled when we found out that she’s been inducted as one of the Multi-Media Beauties on one Chinese site. Now, we [...]

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WithView HM-U500 is a COWON Q5 Rival

Thursday, January 31, 2008

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Korea’s WithView is not as well-known as COWON but perhaps it new touch screen PMP/DMB TV will change things quickly. The HM-U500 has a nice 4.3-inch 480 x 272-pixel touch screen supporting 16m colors. It’s compatible with WMV, AVI, MP3, WMV, OGG, JPG, BMP, PNG files and with a DMB TV tuner built-in it [...]

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Sharp SP600 HD PMP with 4.3-inch Screen

Monday, January 21, 2008

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Sharp’s SP600 is not the sleekest PMP on the market, but it’s both a learning and an entertainment PMP. The 4.3-inch screen gives you touch control and the Windows CE 5.0 OS features a rangy multi-media support: DIVX, MPEG1/2/4, WMV7/8/9, H.264BP, ASF videos and and MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, AAC audio. This e-Dictionary and [...]

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