Creative unveils their newest PMP, the Zen X-Fi, featuring what else but X-Fi, which is the best MP3-playing you could possibly get in the market. It’s no touch-screen but it’s WiFi-enabled. Most interesting is the numeric keypad, which can be used for “Tchatter” over Yahoo Messenger, GTalk or MSN. So what can users expect from [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 7, 2008
The VX777 is Onda’s best PMP so far feature-wise. In what seems like a features overdose of sorts, Onda, which is known for its widescreen PMPs, has gone ballistic and automatically nominated itself to the high-end market populated by the likes of Archos and Zune. The 4.3-inch (480 x 272) touchscreen is one of the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 19, 2008
In this age of Wi-Fi downloads (like Apple and Archos], some people out there are still buying portable DVD players that are over a kilo each. Toshiba has three new models for these people. The largest is a 9-inch screen monster measuring 267 x 167 x 34mm when folded and weighing 1.2kg. It has a [...]
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...Friday, November 16, 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Who doesn’t love an awesome product makeover? Microsoft just revamped the new Zunes and they’ve made a lot of interesting changes and additions. Here’s what’s in store for you in the Zune 2.0 lone up: Hard Drive Zunes The hard drive Zune is called the Zune 80 and, not surprisingly, it holds 80GB of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 5, 2007
If you’re one of those iPod and Apple fans that have been complaining about the lack of WiFi on iPods, Steve Jobs just answered your prayers. If your one of those iPhone users who have been wondering whether it wouldn’t just be heaven if you can download iTunes directly to your iPhone, Steve Jobs, again, [...]
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...Friday, July 27, 2007
Apple ventured to its territory with the iPhone, so why can’t Nokia, the world’s leading handset maker venture into Apple’s territory? The new Nokia music service will be launched in London August 29 directly competing with iTunes. The site will offer more than a million songs for starters (iTunes began with 200,000). Nokia won’t offer [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 8, 2007
Those who like using Nand flash memory to extend their PMPs onboard storage will have to go deeper into their pockets throughout the rest of the year and possibly beyond it. Flash memory is now the storage of choice in the PMP market and with the current release of the iPhone and a new flash-based [...]
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
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