Even the Chinese cloners are steering clear of the PSP Go. Venus has a new all-around PMP that coincidentally resembles the PlayStation Portable hardware. The JXD300 supports GBA, NES games as well as various video and music files like RMVB, RM, AVI, MPG, FLV and playing DVDs and VCD files directly is not out of [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 15, 2009
Remember the Philips edge-to-edge touchscreen phone, dubbed Xenium 800? It looks like the phone has something to do too with this clone from Venus. In fact the JXD318 PMP, now shown here in another render photo more closely resembles the Philips touchscreen phone than the Toshiba TG01. Can’t wait till we get a live glimpse [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Yes, this is another Chinese clone of a popular mobile device. We didn’t think it would happen so soon, but then again, the Toshiba TG01 doesn’t exactly have the most unique design. Venus used to be a pretty prolific PMP manufacturer. These days, it’s taking it easy, being more deliberate in its releases. The JXD318 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 19, 2009
If you have 599 yuan ($88) and only want the best-quality video on your portable player, the JXD990 PMP from Venus is the ideal player for you. It’s the slimmest or hippest PMP out there and yet the JXD990 supports Blu-Ray quality videos of up to 1280 × 720 pixels. I’m not sure this quality [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Another PMP model has added the plus sign. The VX747 is one of ONDA’s most popular MP4 player and adding a 1.3 megapixel camera will not hurt its sales one bit, I’m sure, if only to keep up with the growing trend in the MP4 player industry. The best thing about the add-on is that [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 6, 2008
Not to nitpick, it’s really a reworking of the iPod Touch, not the iPhone, but moving on. The 311 does text (otherwise known as e-Book support), mic voice recording, AV-in and out and a digital camera with an unknown megapixel count. remember that Venus introduced a series of JXD MP4 players a while ago, many [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 12, 2008
The Newsmy F4 MP4 player is not an MP4 Player at all but an MP6 player. Still, technically a PMP (portable media player), the F4 plays RM/ RMVB directly and has a 1.3 megapixel camera built, sort of like the new Venus JXD releases we featured yesterday. Like one of the Venus JXD players, the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Venus is promoting five cheap PMPs, some with very large screens and cameras added. The JXD951 has a 4-inch 16:10 LTPS screen and a 2 megapixel camera and 4GB of storage. You can take it home for only 599 yuan ($87). It supports Divx, Xvid and AVI at 720 × 480 pixels as well as ASF [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 28, 2007
Venus is one MP4 manufacturer in China that we have covered a little too generously. Specs-wise, their media players aren’t very interesting. Mediocre video support with no attempt to posh up with a camera of monstrous megapixels. But we do love the box that JXD hardware design. The JXD305 is a follow-up of the Shiny [...]
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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Monday, June 29, 2009
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