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Tsinghua Tongfang PMC-M880 Goes Finnish

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

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The Chinese company Tsinghua Tongfang has announced a new PMP that supports TV out at 720 × 576-pixel resolution. This is very good quality TV out resolution for a PMP. The PMC-M880, on its own, has a 3 inches of viewing space with 400 x 240 pixels. You might find that the M880, like [...]

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Technaxx TouchMe Lightweight iPod Touch Killer

Thursday, March 6, 2008

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For a simple and cheap touch screen PMP, obviously one doesn’t go to Apple The iPod Touch, like the iPhone, is a technological wonder, but alternatives for the touch screen craze abound and we are not just talking iPhone or iPod Touch clones. Technaxx has announced perhaps the most generic-looking touchscreen PMP yet. A [...]

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PMC-M880 HVGA Wide Screen PMP

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

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A Chinese MP4 player with Half-size VGA instead of Quarter-size VGA? The Tsinghua Tongfang PMC-M880 gives you 400 x 240 pixels in a 3.0-inch TFT screen. Just how much better HVGA is compared to QVGA? Just take a look at Dakota Blue Richards face from The Golden Compass (below) is shown first with an HGVA [...]

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Tsinghua Tongfang’s LimePC at CES

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

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We’ve been covering gadgets from Chinese manufacturer Tsinghua Tongfang even before anybody has heard of the name. We feel vindicated of all our efforts when the company revealed its totally delicious LimePC at CES 2008. The LimePC’s come in multiple sizes. In the picture above are the UMPC, HandheldPC, and PalmPC. All three devices [...]

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Shenzhen Tongfang Offers Quadro-Platinum PMP

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

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Shenzhen (Tsinghua) Tongfang is the same manufacturer that has brought you the PMC-V800 so it shouldn’t surprise us that one of their MP3 players, dubbed PMP 11, is both familiar and strange. First off, we can only gaze in amazement at the sea-blue screen, which is surprisingly only measures 2.0 inches. How do they make [...]

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Kuro PMP, ezPeer+ ToGo Music Download Platform Launched

Friday, November 16, 2007

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Taiwan’s Darling Digital (which operates the ezPeer+ P2P music platform) just launched the Kuro MPEG-4 player. Details are scanty at the moment, but we do know that the device has a 2.4-inch TFT LCD, a 1GB capacity and uses proprietary software. Price will be NT$2,990 (about US$92). The Kuro was developed by C-Media Electronics, which [...]

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China PMP Makes you Wonder why it Does Video

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

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Looking more like a baby monitor than a PMP, the T&F-17K from Shenzhen Tongfang (no, not that Tongfang) manages to play AMV videos on its minuscule 1-inch OLED screen. Hey, at least you get 65,000 colors, right? Audio-wise, the device supports MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, WMV, ASF and WAV files. It can also record in [...]

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Tsinghua Tongfang Goes Crazy on PMC-V800 Interface

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

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We’ve earlier featured the PMC-V800 PMP from Tsinghua Tongfang, which plays FLV and SWF videos, besides playing several (MP3, WMA and WAV) music files and NES and GBC games. One thing we haven’t told you is the built-in karaoke machine, which you whip out in Karaoke bars and most likely syn with their mic and [...]

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Tsinghua Tongfang iPod Touch Clone Cometh: PMC-V560

Saturday, October 27, 2007

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Tsinghua Tongfang’s PMC-V560 is a unique iPod Clone from China that offers basic PMP functionality without the fussiness of a touchscreen device. Screen size is unspecified (we looked) but at 320 x 240 pixels, don’t expect the screen to be larger than 2.5 inches. It plays AVI (25fps), MP3, WMA, WAV, views JPEG and supports [...]

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Tsinghua Tongfang PMC-V800: HDTV Player With FLV Support

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

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Chinese PMPs are stretching their horizons in video playing. You can stop calling these devices MP4 players. Chinese PMPs have supported RealMedia when few portable players in the West bothered with the format. Chinese PMPs have also begun supporting HDTV, cranking up widescreen PMPs to suit the demands of a more sophisticated consumer base. The [...]

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