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 [...]
Continue reading...22. September 2009
The KTV lifestyle is as popular as ever in Asia, at least Egoman thinks so. Their new iKaRa i600 PMP has a Karaoke feature that I’m sure would delight your fellow commuters on the train and on the bus. If the iKaRa i600 were allowed by airlines, I’d definitely think about being an international tramp. Specs [...]
Continue reading...20. September 2009
Another 1080i PMP from a Chinese manufacturer, the Newsmy A16HD introduces 720p video recording via it AV-IN function. This handy Windows CE 5.0 PMP features a 5-inch 800×400 screen and support for RM/RMVB, AVI, FLV, MP4, VOB, MOV, 3GP, MPG, DAT or MKV videos that can also be displayed on a bigger screen thru the HDMI [...]
Continue reading...19. September 2009
Here are two more new models you can add to the Sony Walkman line-up apart from the NW-A840 we previously reported. The S640 is available in 8GB and 16GB variants and comes with ambient noise filtration. The S740, meanwhile, boasts of noise cancellation and has more variations to choose from – 8/16/32GB capacities. Both models [...]
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14. October 2009
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