PMP Today

We didn’t know that by adding a DMB/DAB tuner the Samsung P2 is going to gain a nifty kickstand. I’d still go for an antenna that completely folds and vanishes into the casing but the benefit of having a built-in kickstand almost outweighs the inconvenience of having extra appendage. Specs of the PB2 is similar to the P2 except for the added mobile TV and digital radio support. Prices are as follows: 4 GB 239000 won ($229); 8 GB 309000 won ($296), 16 GB389000 won ($372).

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Korea’s Wonder Girls are not only talented and uber-pretty, they also have a series of button PMPs that they designed themselves in collaboration with INNO design studio. Dubbed INNO-Wo MP3 players, they are the same INNO-Bo “Barbie MP3″ players but especially decorated with Wonder Girls designs. Like INNO-Bo and INNO-To, wear the INNO-Wo as pendants or as a ring on your finger. Maybe you can even attach a safety pin and wear them on your outfit as decorative but functional accessories. They play MP3 and WMA files and come in 1GB for $59 (59,800 KRW). They come preloaded with 4 Wonder Girls tracks.

The Wonder Girls Sun Ye, Ye Eun, Sun Mi, So Hee and Yoo Bin after the break.

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Korean-PMP-manufacturer Oracom is not as popular as COWON but rest assured this is a bona fide Korean manufacturer and its PMPs, though not revolutionary, is worth the 100 euros (2GB) and 115 euros (4GB) you pay for it. It’s a 2.4-inch 320 x 240-pixel touch screen player with MPEG, AVI, WMV, ASF, SMI, MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, JPEG, and TXT support, FM radio, DMB tuner, a mic and some basic form of e-dictionary ( I don’t think with the money you pay for it you’re going to get something like this).

Compare it with OraCom’s A9, also with DMB.

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Korean manufacturer mobiBLU gets closer to the iPod Touch by launching the mobiBLU i30 for the Chinese market. Th mobiBLU i30 has a 3-inch WQVGA (400 × 240) screen and uses a Rockchip2706 processor. It has respectable multimedia support with direct playback of RM, RMVB (720 × 576) and FLV, AVI (800 × 480) and MP3, WMA. It also tunes in to FM radio. Price set at 488 yuan ($70) with a free Wrist-U-1 as a gift if you buy between June 1 and August 1. The word is that what the Chinese really want is the Cube3.

Photo of the freebie after the break.

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TG’s Sambo Windows CE 5.0 PMP has a 4.8-inch 800×480 screen and powered by an RMI AU 1250 to 700MHz CPU. It’s powered like a UMPC with a processor almost as fast as a sub-notebook, matched with a rather disappointing 128MB of RAM. It has WiFi, T-DMB, plays MPEG 1/2/4, WMV, ASF, DivX3.1 1/4x/5x, Xvid 1.0 Video files, MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG. Akihabaranews says it packs 16GB of HDD, but it must be 16GB of flash memory or 160GB of HDD right?

This is a Korean release only priced at 300 euros or $466. I wonder with the screen at 4.8 inches they didn’t think of putting GPS in it. It’s a Korean device after all.

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Hold your horses, the Thunder hasn’t launched yet no matter where you are in the globe, even if you were in hi-tech Korea. Koreans are known for their advanced wireless lifestyle and, finally, they will get a chance to try out being a CrackBerry. The reason is the Ministry of Knowledge Economy and the Korea Communications Commission. They have finally allowed the BlackBerry software to operate in Korea. Korea is a restricted country when it comes to mobile software platforms. Every cellphone has to use the locally developed platform called WIPI. But after constant pressure from the corporate front (mostly coming from foreign investors), Korea has finally yielded. An official from the Ministry of Knowledge Economy did not mince words. “There have been continuous requests from foreign investors that they should be able to use the BlackBerry here. This issue has been raised as a hindrance to investment,” he says.

“The government has decided to apply exemption provisions among the regulations to the BlackBerry, classifying it as a PDA used for business purposes” He requested to leave his name unmentioned, though.

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The Samsung P3 will remind you of Sprint’s Samsung Instinct, although this PMP is an exact copy of the Samsung SCH-W420 TNT phone using metallic buttons instead of touch-sensitive Chocolatey keys below the screen. Like the Sprint Instinct, the P3 will benefit from Haptic feedback on its huge touchscreen. It will probably be promoted as an iPod Touch killer, so for that at least it’s going to attract a lot of interest in the coming months before its official release. The Samsung P2 is one of the best and most popular PMPs out there, and it remains to be seen whether the phone-like P3 will follow in its predecessor’s footsteps.

The Samsung P3 PMP shold be available late this year.

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We can’t deny that Minigigi’s C3000 is a handsome player. It has a 2.4-inch 320 x 240-pixel screen and competitively thin at only 7mm. It plays video and audio files AVI, APE, FLAC, MP3, WMA, WAV, JPEG, TXT and plays FM through the built-in FM tuner. Other features include USB 2.0 and microSD slot. No pricing yet.

Note: the Minigigi C3000 has some resemblance to the most recent Safa outings like the Dia and Casiopea. Anyone familiar with the UI of the C1000 and C2000 should appreciate how the Minigigi design has improved. Price is not available.

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The Samsung YP-P2 has an iteration with DVB-T TV tuner and DAB tuner added. It’s only in Korea of course and shall henceforth be dubbed Samsung YP-PB2. It will not be the new 16GB version of the YP and everything else - 3-inch WQVGA, Bluetooth and a choice of 2GB, 4GB and 8GB f storage - stay the same. No word on pricing and release date but it’s not going to be cheap.

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The T80 does not look much better than LG’s previous PMP models and I wonder if this wasn’t a deliberate attempt not to look like the iPod Touch. We have to remember that this is the manufacturer of the Prada phone we’re talking about and if there’s a manufacturer out there that has every right to “clone” iPhone or iPod Touch, it’s LG.

Anyway, the LG T80 boasts a 3-inch 420 × 240-pixel touchscreen with 260k colors with MPEG, MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, ASF, JPEG, TXT support, and FM tuner, a Mic and a DVB-T (TNT) tuner. It plays 5.5 hours of video and 2 hours of TV viewing. It’s priced at 299 euros.

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