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They’re calling this a breakthrough device, a PMP with WiFi and supports mobile TV. But that’s not the breakthrough yet for this HD (up to 160GB) MP5 Player (a PMP in China that supports RealMedia). The MV5920, due to its dual-core technology no doubt, also supports video playback at HD 720p (1280 x 720 pixels), although I am not sure that 60fps is supported as well, but wouldn’t it be awesome if it did? Of course we want nothing more than to review or have some do a review of the HDTV playback on this new Patriot MP5, but for now we’ll take Aigo’s word for it. One can be yours for 2,999 yuan or about $429.

Check out the sometimes funnily written specs after the break.

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We like the M8000 the first time we saw it but now we really, really like it. It’s an all-around HD PMP with a 4-inch TFT screen, lot of multimedia support, a camera, TV Out, game emulation, PVR functionality, etc. It also comes with 80GB of hard disk space, which is all I really need in two lifetimes. But for people who are more voracious in their multimedia consumption, higher capacity versions of the M8000 are now being offered: 120GB, 160GB and 250GB! On this site, they are even offering customizable features, including the storage options, of course. It starts at $299.

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The PMX-M70 series is Sony’s priciest China-only PMP and it’s getting a price cut. Why have a price cut now and why only 100 yuan (about $14) only Sony can answer that. Now only 1599 yuan ($229), users will be getting a 4.3-inch screen, 4GB of storage and line-in video and audio recording and, of course, the assurance that this, despite its target market, is a device of topnotch quality. It’s a good gadget choice for those who do not play games at all but do not mind carrying around media player the size of the Sony PSP.

Specs after the break.

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The T-rexon MP747-SM from Exon International (not to be confused with the oil company) claims to be the tiniest PDA phone in the world measuring 90 x 46 x 10 mm and weighing only 90g with the battery included. It also runs both Linux and Windows Mobile 6.0. This is the genuine article, the manufacturers repeat, the real PDA phone that can install applications with a swappable OS:

Please note that this is a Genuine PDA phone. Most other so-called PDA-phones advertised by other suppliers are NOT true PDA phones,butsmart phones only with a firmware interface similar to Windows Mobile.No application can be installed on these false PDA-phones and theOS cannot be altered. True PDA phones run on Microsoft Windows, Linuxor similar OS and all Windows / Linux applications can be installed.

It connects on GSM networks and GPRS and plays MP3, games, shoots photos with a 1.3 megapixel camera and has the Holy Quran preloaded. Not only does it fully support Word, Excel, Outlook®, Internet Explorer, PowerPoint® and all those Linux applications, it has the Holy Book of Islam available for the user at a touch of a button (or a couple of touches). No one is going to make fun of this awesome device from Exon.

Note: We have a Quran PMP as well from a post way back and an iBible. Check them out.

Specs after the break.

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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 biggest we’ve seen on any iPhone/ iPod Touch clone or iPhone-like device. The VX777, like most Chinese players, supports a plethora of media files but the addition Internet Radio seems a little like overkill - not that we aren’t ecstatic about it.

With support for RM/RMVB, AVI, FLV, ASF, MP4, MPG, MOV, WMA, WMV, 3GP and SWF, the 16GB option, which is available for the VX777, will come in handy and so will the TF card expansion supporting up to 32GB cards. MP4 Nation has listed up the goods one can find inside every VX777 copied here after the break.

The VX777 is coming in August. Expect a price higher than ordinary Onda players but you can bet it will go for peanuts next to iPod Touch or Archos 605.

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It looks like the FW8800 is one iPhone knockoff that isn’t too impressed with Steve Jobs’ first phone and went to add the missing ingredient. While Fillwinn Enterprise Holdings International Ltd. has retained the iPhone’s famous multi-touch user interface and other features like the 3.5-inch 320×480 pixel 160 ppi screen, 2.0 megapixel camera, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0 and EDGE, it had to give up OS X for Windows CE 6.0 in order to add the extra feature that everybody wished iPhone had: GPS.

Besides the aforementioned details, the Fw8800 is every bit an iPhone. See for yourself after the break.

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The EP2501 from Epoda Technology Co. Ltd is not only a watch phone, which in itself is a technological feat worthy of praise, it’s also a water-proof watch-phone. Honestly I have a bias for convergence technology that takes into account the little things like water-proofness and durability previously only found in one genre of devices (like a watch) but not in another (like a phone). The 1.45-inch screen is not much use for watching videos, which it supports in MP4 format, but what it lacks in screen size it makes up for in Wi-Fi connectivity and Skype and MSN support, which are, well, pretty awesome. The GPRS and MMS do not hurt either and a built-in 2.0 megapixel camera. Bluetooth? You got it. It’s good to know that while many full-size PMPs are stuck with Windows CE 5.0, the EP2501 is enjoying the benefits of CE 6.0.

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The Amber F1 looks like a fancy lighter at the back but boasts a 2.8-inch movie-playing screen in front framed with the most desirable metal in the world. Whatever Cooper, a manufacturer we’ve never heard of before, is thinking when it decided to launch this gilded media player, we are doubly impressed that the F1 comes with gilded earphones. At least the Amber F1 does not look nearly half as tacky as this other Cooper masterpiece.

The Amber F1 plays RMVB, AVI, FLV and comes with SRS audio enhancement. Wow, it’s been a while since we last saw a PMP from China not using PlayFX.

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Yuantong, known to us as Yoto, has launched the M300, an iPod Touch wannabe that boasts a RK27XX and support for AVI, DIVX, MPEG4, RM, XVID, RMVB, FLV, MP3, WMA, FLAC, APE, JPG, GIF, and BMP, which is kind of awesome, especially when it supports games as well. The 3-inch screen has WQVGA (400 × 240) resolution, which is nice too. Unfortunately, only Windows 2000 and Windows XP is compatible with the M300 and in an increasingly Vista and OS X world, this is definitely a let down. No word on how much it will cost on retail. We have no idea if it is touchscreen. Players of this sort usually have side buttons.

Specs after the break.

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OMG! Does the Teclast T50 touch screen support multi-gesture? It sure looks like it. A user at a Chinese forum just posted his unboxing photos of a newly bought Teclast T50 and in one of the pic we could see him resizing a photo using two fingers: pinch fingers to zoom out, split them to zoom in. You may be worried about the UI being in Chinese but most Chinese PMPs support several languages. How lucid these other non-Chinese UIs are is subject for review. On problem with the T50 is that it stops functioning while being charged too bad, but for 599 yuan ($86) it’s the cheap second iPod Touch you’ve always wanted.

The conclusion from azazhs and a link to a video review after the break.

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