Neonumeric NTPL and NTP PMPs

Let’s take a break from iPhone news and the irresistible iPhone 2.0 and App Store combo and look at what’s new on the PMP business. Neonumeric, maker of the NM5 and NM6 (two very competent audio/ video players), steps up to offer us their new products. We have no idea how the NTPL and NTP [...]

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Neonumeric NM6 Introduced

  We haven’t heard from Neonumeric in a while. They announced the NM4 and the NM5 in quick succession but it has taken a while before they come out with a mini-PMP with a tolerable 2.8-inch screen. The screen has a QVGA resolution with 65k-color support. The NM6 plays QVGA-quality AVI and MP3, WMA, WAV audio [...]

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Sweex Blizzard Renamed Again, Now Lavod LFV-478

We first met the Blizzard under the Neonumeric banner as the NPMP F1 (2.4″ QVGA 262K color TFT display; compatible with MP3, WMA, MTV, JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF format, 2 megapixel camera with optional DV, Fm radio, etc.), then as the Sweex Blizzard, and last we heard it was the Benss BM-861. If you could [...]

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Neonumeric NM5: a Video Review

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrkeBksPm78[/youtube] Generationmp3 has produced another rockin’ video review of a audio/video player. The NM5 is the latest installment in Neonumeric NM line of mini-PMP. Just to recap, the NM5 has a 2.4-inch TFT LCD screen with 320 x 240-pixel resolution and 262k colors. It’s compatible with AVI, and after conversion: XviD, WMV, MPEG, MPG, MOV . [...]

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BENSS BM-861 PMP With Familiar Dutch Looks

Look who’s been cloned. We’re not claiming Dutch-manufacturer Sweex has broken new grounds in design with their Blizzard portable media player. Still we can’t help but be amazed by its almost perfect copycat produced by Chinese-brand BENSS. If this isn’t a clone of this player, the Sweex Blizzard, we don’t know what “clone” means. The [...]

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Neonumeri’cs NPMP F1 PMP and Camera

Portable media players are becoming more like cell phones. The most recent trend is the addition of a camera function in audio/visual players. The Chinese are going at it strong with this from Newman and the MV300 from Zarva and, knowing the Chinese, a host of others we haven’t covered. Now it’s the turn of [...]

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Neonumeric Comes Out With NM5

It wasn’t long ago when Neonumeric’s successor to the NM3, the NM4, was announced and now here comes NM5. The NM5 has a better TFT LCD screen measuring 2.4 inches 320 x 240. It supports similar files formats as its predecessor: MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, WAV for audio and AVI (XviD, WMV, MPEG, MPG, MOV [...]

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Neonumeric Announces NM4

Neonumeric’s NM4 is the successor of the MP3 and video player NM3. There’s no improvement on the 2.2-inch 220 x 176 pixel and 262k color TFT screen. The NM4 PMP is actually 1.7mm thicker and sports a narrower frame at 68 X 52 X 14.7mm and ten whole grams lighter at 52g. File support [...]

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