Apple Insider has yet another Verizon iPhone rumor. Now they’re saying they have information that a worldphone iPhone that will sport a smaller form factor. So is the Verizon get the iPhone Nano? Apple Insider’s sources are from Taiwan and is involved in the iPhone supply chain. This rumor makes a lot of sense, as the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 2, 2009
The greatest smartphone in the world has landed on the most populous country in the world. The Chinese iPhone is officially available today and there are queues! Not as long as the queues in the iPhone’s US release but there queues nonetheless. Unicom is China’s official iPhone provider, but the big guns has a sticky problem [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 16, 2009
Nokia has announced a drop in profits to the tune of 90%. They have also expected a drop in market share in the process. The 37% percentage drop from 39% for year on year on Nokia’s share of the mobile market will still see the Finnish giant in number one place but where will the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 8, 2009
Its predecessor, the Coby MP835, didn’t quite hit it off with the buying public either so it wouldn’t be much of a surprise if the poor showing of the MP836 at this year’s CES will result into much the same thing. What can one say about Coby’s touchscreen outings but that they’re Samsung P-series lookalikes. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 6, 2008
Our initial excitement and jubilation over the release of Nokia’s first full-touchscreen device the 5800 XpressMusic phone came to a screeching halt as news broke out that it will only be released in 7 countries in 2008. Other countries such as the US, Australia, and other more developed markets will get their fair share of [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 24, 2008
Right now only about 9% of all PMPs and MP3s have Wi-Fi connectivity but iSuppli has a projection that claims Wi-Fi on a media device will be more sought after than touch screen or Bluetooth. It’s surprising to me that Bluetooth market penetration is very low, currently in less than 4% of MP3 players and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 16, 2008
More details have come out from Teclast (Taipower) about the T50, a PMP with capacitive multitouch screen that supports finger-swiping and pinching commands just like in the iPhone. The new product photos of the T50 suggests a significant redesign from a player that was curved on the edges to a more rectangular look. The screen [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 13, 2008
The iRiver X20 has been around for a while but its new and improved 8GB version has just been released in the UK. The 8GB iRiver X20 comes with 22 hours of battery life, a microSD slot, support for a wide variety of audio and video formats, and a white clickwheel that doesn’t [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 19, 2007
Shenzhen Martking Ladeb Electronic’s mk113 brings the pretty to digital photo frames, with its leaf-and-flower graphics printed all around the screen’s border. Now, we’ve seen this sort of thing before, haven’t we? Well, it’s nice to know that some companies realize how looks (and not just features) can be deal-makers as well as deal-breakers. The [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 29, 2007
The MD300 from Shenzhen Liuniu Technology does PMP on the cheap, with no built-in memory. It’s strictly BYO CF or 1-inch micro-HDD. Well, what you get in return is support for MP3, WMA, JPEG, TXT, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DivX (3.11, 4X and 5A), Xvid, AVI, MOV and VOB files. Display is done via a 3.5-inch, 16 [...]
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
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