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iPhone EyeTV app backdoor allows Live TV 3G streaming

16. October 2009

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Apple isn’t exactly fond of allowing 3G video streaming on the iPhone. The iPhone SlingPlayer app doesn’t come with it and neither does the recently released EyeTV app. Fortunately, there seems to be a quick fix for this as far as Elgato’s EyeTV iPhone app is concerned. When you try to run Live TV on [...]

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YP-CM3 First CMMB PMP from Samsung

14. October 2009

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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 [...]

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FLO TV: Qualcomm’s Personal Telly

12. October 2009

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Qualcomm’s FLO TV is a stand-alone mobile TV that it’s trying to sell to the public spoiled by iPod Touch and other premium and not so-premium PMPs, not to mention multimedia phones. Yes, this is not a PMP but a personal television with 3.5-inches of portable viewing screen. They have priced this at a prohibitive [...]

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Samsung M1 Available in Korea

7. August 2009

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It doesn’t say Nvidia Tegra anywhere but we know it’s there and, besides the OLED, it’s the most interesting feature of the new YP-M1 PMP. According to Akihabaranews, the Samsung M1 is already on sale in Korea, with DMB TV added. The capacity comes in three versions: 8GB, 16GB and 32GB. The M1 plays WMV, [...]

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HiPhone 3GS to Break Speed records in iPhone Clones?

7. August 2009

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Since the iPhone 3G S was announced, we’ve been keeping watch of a HiPhone 3GS. Chinagrabber has found it for us. So, without further adieu, we present the HiPhone 3G S. The specs shows nothing special, really: 3.2-inch touchscreen, WiFi, JAVA, FM tuner, Opera browser and portable TV. It’s supposed to be the thinnest HiPhone ever [...]

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Samsung YP-M1 Nvidia Tegra PMP?

1. August 2009

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The Nvidia Tegra chip set may soon be as ubiquitous as touchscreen controls but right now we’re still giddy about the possibility of a high-powered portable player. The previously leaked Samsung M1 may be one of the first PMPs to have the Nvidia Tegra chip inside. The Korean Samsung Mobile site has the newly announced [...]

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Clone: Nokia E71i is a Sleeker E71 for the Philippines

19. July 2009

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This is the best Nokia clone I have ever seen. It has the exact form factor of the Nokia E71 business phone but smaller. How do they do it? The main difference is that in the fake Nokia E71i, the QWERTY cannot fit and so we have only a numeric keypad. The E71i, though, has [...]

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Philips GoGear SA065 PMP w/ CMMB TV Launched

11. July 2009

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China seems to be a worthy market for big names like Sony and Philips as both has been releasing China-only PMPs there for two years now. The Philips GoGear SA065 is one PMP that we may never see outside China. Too bad, because the 999 yuan price ($146) and the mobile TV + DAB radio [...]

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HiPhone F06-Slim Clones BlackBerry Storm

16. June 2009

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The WiFi + TV phone is the best HiPhone yet. Fortunately, it also clones one of the best looking phones around, and I don’t mean it’s an iPhone clone. The BlackBerry Storm form factor is a breath of fresh air on the HiPhone F06-Slim WiFi TV phone. You heard right, TV and WiFi (we rechecked [...]

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Iriver B30 PMP + TV, Nice Design but Kinda Big

4. June 2009

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O.K., we understand portable TVs are necessarily bulky cousins of PMPs but we were really hoping the iRiver B30 will be an exception. Still, you have to appreciate the sleek user interface. Dapreview thinks it’s comparable to the P.ple P7 Magazine UI.

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