Newman is not the most fashionable manufacturers of PMPs, but they do try to give us everything that we need in the specs side. Now, they’re on the HD bandwagon with the all-new Newsmy A8HD. The 4.8-inch touchscreen only supports 480 x 272 pixels but with video output, you can view 720p videos. There’s 8GB [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 10, 2009
In this blog, we know a lot of great Chinese products. Unfortunately, we tend to mix them up with bad ones (and not so bad ones) and even really bad ones. We’re sorry about this… well, not really sorry, but once in a while we sight something that makes us feel good about are non-discriminating [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 3, 2009
O2 will be distributing the 4.1-inch touchscreen Toshiba TG01 in Germany. This is an exclusive for O2, which will be up against T-Mobile Germany’s iPhone offering. No pricing announced yet. The TG01 is a huge phone, the biggest we’ve seen from a major manufacturer and only “slightly” slimmer than the fantastic and Skype-enabled VX1000 from Newman, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 21, 2008
At last, here it is, the Meizu M8 finished product. Is it just me or does the background music remind one of Zune ads? Got to admit the UI is sophisticated and beautiful. Screen resolution of the Meizu M8 is crisp. The swiping touch control is almost as amazing as iPhone’s. It’s one of the best [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 11, 2008
TCL has announced the iOpen, a Windows CE 5.0 Internet device with full PMP functionality and GPS added. For $336 it’s about one of the priciest China-made Windows CE do-everything device we’ve come across in a while. Heck, our gadget of the year, the Newman VX1000, cost $80 less. It is powered by an ARM926 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 26, 2008
The Actus clip MP3 player [AVIP0024] is just what I’ve always wanted. Sure, I’d love to have some sort of screen on there, but Apple’s iPod Shuffle, next to this, has the best form factor of all clip-on players in the market. The small rectangle looks so natural on your shirt pocket, it will be [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 10, 2008
We here at PMPToday have no idea what all the fuss was about. So a couple of Swedes ad come up with an idea of putting GPRS and GPS on a gaming console, so what? Now we hear that Carl Freer, the non-embezzling co-owner of Gizmondo’s parent company, Tiger Telemantics, will release a new version [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 30, 2008
TEKXON DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES LTD[HK] is actually saying the MX550 PMP is a 12 megapixel digicam with PMP functionality added but the fine print says it only has a 5 megapixel CMOS sensor onboard. It’s stll very impressive, though, what with the TV in/out, video recording, MP3 and MP4 playback and a ear phone thrown [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 31, 2007
For our device or gadget of 2007, we look back at a year distiguished by innovations, some marketable, some not. But there is one innovation in the portable industry that describes 2007 more than any other innovation - touch screen. Yes, tech can be cold at times and Apple has found the most human way [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 16, 2007
We’ve been bringing you the fugly side of Chinese electronics and, frankly, we’ve had enough so here. 1) Newman (Newsmy) N99. Not a bad-looking PMP if I might say so. For 329 yuan ($45) you get a solid-looking UI and file support in slim packaging (72 × 44 × 12mm) . screen: 2.0-inch (220 x 176 [...]
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
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