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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Bad luck for PMP Today readers. The courier service made a mess of our review unit. It was working fine just after the unboxing a couple days ago, but since late yesterday the device has been acting strange. I suspect something to do with the battery (Haier promised us a replacement unit ASAP, so watch [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 12, 2007
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcMpyUCo_5k[/youtube] Remember the iPod Killer from Sansa? Well, it’s not strictly for usic playing anymore as Sansa has added video support on the “YPod.” Sansa Connect has a 2.2-inch screen that was exclusively used for navigating the menu. It was a waste to be honest if could not view videos. Even at 15fps, video playback is [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Sandisk just launched the Sansa TakeTV video player, a revolutionary solution especially designed to bring downloaded videos from your computer to your TV. The launch of this product coincides with the release of their new beta service called Fanfare, an online distribution platform where SanDisk provides videos which you can download to your PC. The [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 10, 2007
SanDisk’s Sansa View made a dramatic intro today. The new player isn’t the Sansa View we saw at CeBit. It wasn’t the same player that SanDisk put on the back burner three months ago. The new Sansa View had gone back to the drawing board and returned to the limelight slim and feeling like it’s [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 23, 2007
Dapreview has collected three WifFi-enabled players currently on sale. The Zune link may not be working as the sale is only a one-day event. But hey, we need three players to make this a real post. Archos 604 WiFi - $249.99 Sandisk Sansa Connect 4GB - $131.97 Microsoft [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Sansa Conect, also previously known as the YPOd, will have $100 shaved off its retail price to get kids to buy one. Sansa Connect integrates with Yahoo! Music and has been touted as an iPod killer. It’s a promising, music centric device with a special focus on internet radio integration, in Sansa Connect’s case Yahoo [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 27, 2007
The judgment has been nearly universal: the iPhone is a breakthrough device, matches all the hype, it’s a flawed but an exceedingly beautiful machine. Yes, it’s the supermodel of gadgets. But a world entirely made up of iPhone is not exactly something everyone is looking forward to. The other guys, I mean the Nokias, the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 25, 2007
There will always be music players, but standalone music devices may soon be coming to an end, as consumers will likely be going for video and multi-media functionality. According to Forbes magazine, sales of MP3 players have reached saturation point and has recently suffered a slowdown in growth. Although 20% growth in 2007 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 4, 2007
The much-anticipated Slacker Player will get a boost - $40 million to be exact - just in time for its summer release. This is series B funding for the “Personal Internet Radio,” which received $14.5 million earlier in the year. The Slacker Portable Radio Player is equipped with satellite as well as WiFi connectivity. Slacker is [...]
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Tuesday, January 8, 2008
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