The washing machine and fridge maker has had it with the PMP market, apparently, as the sales of the iBiza Rhapsody may have indicated. Haier is now trying its hand on handset making and their H7 smartphone has chosen none other than Google’s Android to run. No idea on pricing and release. Screen is 2.7 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 11, 2009
Here’s a preview of two more new Rhapsody iBiza PMPs set to debut this year. The Ibiza Rumble comes with a 2.8-inch WQVGA capacitive touchscreen display, 8GB NAND flash, a Freescal i.MX37 ARM 11 processor and a Webkit-based browser. It supports a variety of formats which include AAC, MP3, and WMA, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H263, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 11, 2009
Haier is gearing up for a more serious entry into the portable player market. The iBiza Theater, besides supporting Rhapsody To Go, the company’s portable music service will play MPEG-4, AVI videos and MP3, WMA and Audible. If the sport version of the first iBiza Rhapsody player may does not do it for you, the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 5, 2009
No one has an idea what Creative is up to. Obviously, it has something new lined up but what is Zii exactly, hardware? software? a new music store? Sounds to me like a version of Pandora, Rhapsody and Apple iTunes Genius. EpiZENter, a website and forum dedicated to everything Creative believes it’s a chip but [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 4, 2008
We haven’t heard much about Haier’s iBiza Rhapsody after its rather hyped-up intoduction. The WiFi-enabled portable Rhapsody player, though, will not die just yet. I have to admit even from the very beginning that the idea is a good one. Maybe with the new sport version, things will look up on the sales side. The [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 14, 2008
We never really kept up with Philips’ GoGear line of MP3 Players and PMPs. Though if Philips had dubbed their audio/video player the GoGear Nano, I bet we would’ve given it more than its due consideration. Be that as it may, zol has got hold of what looks like an SA5245 (SA5345 to them), a [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 11, 2008
The time of LG Chocolate has come and gone and it’s the turn of a more sophisticated fashion phone: iPhone! Verizon probably didn’t read the memo and bravely launched the third-generation LG Chocolate. To be fair, Chocolate 3 is specially earmarked for U.S. customers being a clamshell phone. Another good thing is the adaptation of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Sandisk has finally announced their iPod Nano rival, and with a $79.99 price point or just $10 more than the screen-less iPod Shuffle, it’s going to be a rough road ahead for the iPod. The Sansa Fuze has a 1.9-inch plays MPEG-4 video and a variety of audio files including WMA, MP3 and WAV. It [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 3, 2008
Slacker is better than your iPod collection, because the customized channels of Internet radio like Slacker “know us better than we know ourselves.” Unlike the Haier iBiza Rhapsody, Slacker Portable does not have live music streaming via WiFi. It has WiFi, but Slacker Portable it does is save stations from your PC and uses WiFi [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Slacker radio is at CES ‘08 and the good news is, the Slacker Portable has an official release date. It’s been a long time to launching for Slacker Portable, but they’ve finally settled for a January 31st launching. The Slacker Portable is not the first Internet Portable Radio. It’s going to be in some stiff [...]
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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