Shanzai products are becoming cooler and cooler every time we post about them. boeye, a totally unknown manufacturer to us, has an e-Book dubbed E510. This is the cutest e-Book we’ve seen so far. The Boeye E510 supports a totally legit 16 grayscale level for an e-Book. It has a 5.0-inch 800×600 E-ink display, which [...]
Continue reading...15. October 2009
Oh, wow, Energy Sistem has another PMP series. We’ve been impressed since the company has begun announcing portable media players since they announce the Inngenio models. Energy Sistem PMPs are unique (read: not iPod or iPhone clones), albeit offering the most basic PMP features. The 32xx series is no exception. There’s WMV and AVI support, [...]
Continue reading...15. October 2009
Newman’s (Newsmy) 720p HD portable media player seems to be the most complete HD player out of China. It has a 4.3-inch screen and an 8.8mm form factor in luscious metal. Sure, it only boasts 720p, unlike the 1080p trend nowadays, but it makes up for the lower resolution support with a bigger 16GB capacity [...]
Continue reading...14. October 2009
Like Sony, Samsung has entered the Chinese PMP market in earnest. The YP-CM3 is the first PMP with CMMB (Chinese mobile TV) support from the Korean company. It boasts a 3-inch screen and will play multiple video codecs including MP4, AVI and SVI. I’m not sure why Samsung would want to skip RMVB support, as [...]
Continue reading...14. October 2009
Meant for the Korean market with little hope of getting outside the country, The Samsung YP-VX1 is a voice recorder MP3 player combo that is as useful as it looks. The professional looking device. Will have music playback and ID3 tagging and even DNSe 3.0. There is not much else information available. [via gmp3]
Continue reading...14. October 2009
How important is portable entertainment to you? For $122, the Gemei HD8800 gives you full 1080p HD support in a 4.3-inch 800 x 480 screen. With TV out, you’ll get the entire 1920×1080 pixels on a bigger screen with a 50mb data stream. It’s a plain and simple PMP only with that full HD support [...]
Continue reading...12. October 2009
The interestingly designed iAudio E2 by COWON is now official, and what do you know, it’s available in 8 colors! It’s unavoidable that this gets compared with the iPod Shuffle, so here are the dimensions: 6.6 x 64.2 x 7.7mm. It only weighs 16.6 grams, too. It plays MP3, WMA, FLAC, WAV, OGG with battery [...]
Continue reading...30. September 2009
We mentioned earlier this year that the iLuv i1166 is way too big to be lugged around, even if it does have a DVD player built-in. But now that we have an official price–$269.99–it’s not too bad for an iPod Dock and DVD player.
Continue reading...28. September 2009
720p to 1080i support for PMPs is suddenly de riguer for portable media player manufacturers, especially those in China. Dutch electronics giant Philips thinks it can do well in the most populated country in the world. The Philips SA075 will support 720p videos and will be equipped with the useful HDMI output. It’s a touchscreen [...]
Continue reading...25. September 2009
Our hats off to Philips for thinking of multimedia first in the new Xenium K700. The phone is off the beaten path compared to the iPhone and its myriad clones, Palm Pre and new Android phones. The Philips Xenium K700 is not a smartphone and non-SD card users may be disappointed by the lack internal [...]
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16. October 2009
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