PMP Today

Newman has a treat for us this summer. It’s a simple MP3 player (no fancy video-playing codec or camera added) in a sophisticated form factor (103 × 34 × 13mm; weighs 28g). Look to the side of the RV30, it’s all shiny buttons, perfectly raised for the ultimate tactile goodness. For good measure, there’s a small screen for navigation. Hopefully, it also support other languages than Mandarin. It plays MP3 and WMA, powered by 2 AAA batteries! There are 3 built-in speakers, which record high-quality audio and if you connect this to your phone, it can record telephone conversations as well. Still no idea how they do that, though. It’s available in 1GB and red and silver colors for 499 yuan ($73).

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The Aigo MP3 F566+ is an improvement on the former MP3 F566 (without the addition sign), which only has an MP3 player without the camera and a storage capacity that starts from 128MB (it was released way back in 2006). Now with a 1.3 megapixel CMOS camera that takes up to 1280 × 1024-pixel photos, a remote to turn it on and higher 2GB storage capacity, its a handy tool for practical jokers and spies alike. Price is 12,800 yen ($119).

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Less than 24 hours after Engadget wrote about the S2’s availability at Amazon, the price of the “Pebble” Mp3 player went up as it now ships with $45.59 from $39.99 stock price listed by Engadget. People have been buying this baby and there’s plenty of the obvious in the rendered photo, in case you’re wondering why. It only comes with 1GB of memory but the thing is so cool nobody would care it wasn’t made by Apple.

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The 3.5-inch (QVGA) PMP is available in the U.S. in mainstream retailers like Wal-Mart. The weird part is that for the $100 price tag it only comes with token video support. That’s right, a built-in converter can play AVI videos on this device. It has 4GB built-in memory, FM tuner and play most music files. Hm, I dunno. there are a number of 50-dollar or 999-yuan PMPs with way better file support and a lot of high-end features too. Looks like the Nextar need to do a little more research in the MP4 market.

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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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JVC’s Al-Neo XA-V PMP comes in three storage capacities and three different serial numbers: Al-Neos XA- V80 (8GB), V40 (4GB) and V20(2GB). Each come in four different colors: Blue (A), Black (B), Red (R) and White (W). Price is estimated at 19000 yen for the V20, 24000 yen for the V40 and 27000 yen for the V80. Music playback benefits from K2 technology that gives up to 24 bit/ 96 KHz sampling. The 2-inch TFT screen plays WMV but you’d probably play mostly music (MP3, WMA) on these players.

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We don’t know exactly what Colorful Technology means by “gold-plated technology” but we take it that the DeLUX DLA-812A is a fashion PMP, a rarity in China as well as anywhere in the world. The shiny metal-casted front and touch buttons are very good indicators indeed that the DLA-812A is not for the bargain hunter. The 3-inch QVGA LCD screen may seem typical and so does the RM, RMVB,. MP4, AVI, ASF, DAT, VOB, MPG support - at least for Chinese players - the six EQ mode and multi-five player mode, signal to noise ratio reached 90 dB, though does not sound too typical and indeed has a luxurious ring to it, compared to, say, Microsoft’s PlayFX. It also features support for MP3, WMA, WAV, AMR and APE, FLAC lossless. It has mic recording and an FM tuner with 4GB of storage and TF card extension. Price is not yet announced but I doubt this will go for a three-digit yuan MSRP.

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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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One unknown Chinese manufacturers that has done good lately is K-Touch. We know next to nothing about this manufacturer but they’ve just announced the C280, an 8 megapixel camera phone with 3x optical zoom. The camerais sensitive up to 1600 ISO. Presumably, it’s using a Samsung CMOS but tops the best Samsung camphone in the market. To tell the truth, the K-Touch C280 has a passing resemblance to a Samsung i8 8 megapixel digital camera but adds the optical zoom and the phone function. In fact, the specs of the C280 lens matches Samsung’s latest announcement in mobile camera technology.

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