Sony’s China-only PMX PMP just got a boost in the portability factor. The new PMX-U55 has a 2.4-inch 320 × 240-piel screen, supports MPEG-4, H.264/AVC Baseline Profile, AVI videos and a slim 7.5mm profile. It also plays MP3, WMA and AAC in six audio modes. Its identical with the U50 and the U53 so I’m [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 31, 2008
Sony is serious about entrenching itself into the Chinese PMP market. Its PMX series are on the higher end of the Chnese market but are reachable for consumers willing to pay a little more for quality products. The new Sony PMX-M80 series adds a feature that pushes the envelope for the entire Chinese market: maps. [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 9, 2008
The PMX-M70 series is Sony’s priciest China-only PMP and it’s getting a price cut. Why have a price cut now and why only 100 yuan (about $14) only Sony can answer that. Now only 1599 yuan ($229), users will be getting a 4.3-inch screen, 4GB of storage and line-in video and audio recording and, of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 7, 2008
One of the shiniest PMP devices shown at CES is iRiver’s new PMP, the iRiver SPINN. This is not the first time we’ve shown you a gadget with the awesome “hinge” innovation. This isn’t exactly a hinge, but the idea is to make one-handed movie viewing comfortable, and another Japanese company, Sony, got [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 13, 2007
Sony’s first foray into the personal media player market is only available in China but a French site have been given a sample unit for review. The Sony PMX-M70 is not the best media player to be had as Journal du Geek points out. The DivX support is a little jumpy but JDG pointed [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 22, 2007
This must be one of the most difficult cases of spot-the-difference, because for the life of me I could not see where the Sony PMX-U53 differ from the PMX-U50. As an iteration, the U53 is oddly identical to the original. Like it’s predecessor, the U53 has a 2.4-inch 320 x 240-pixel screen playing [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Sony’s Chinese line of PMPs is now selling oin China starting with the PMX-U50. It’s the smaller of the two PMPs (or MP4 players, in Chinese lingo) Sony announced for China in May and should also be the cheaper of the two setting consumers back 999 yuan or around $132 US and 1,299 yuan or [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 20, 2007
Sony’s first venture in the PMP market, unfortunately is only available for China. The M70’s price is yet unknown but imp3 manage to get some live pics of the first ever Sony portable media player. It plays MPEG-4 , AVC (H.264/AVC), and AVI video files and MP3, WMA, and AAC audio files, with direct video [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 20, 2007
The Sony PMP has been rumored since April, and, indeed, few people could believe it. But just a couple days ago, it was officially announced to the Chinese market along with the smaller PMX-U50. It looks like Spider Man had also something to do with it. The M70 boasts a 4.3-inch 480×272-pixel screen with [...]
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Friday, August 29, 2008
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