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PMP TodayPMP TodayPMP Today is a weblog concentrating on bringing the most current news and reviews of the portable media player products. Along with the news in this rapidly growing market, PMP Today will be reviews products by the leading companies, as well as the n Articles
3G iPhone Available on June 9
2008-05-20 21:10:00 Not so official yet that it would come directly from Apple, but it’s pretty official nonetheless. Apple will release iPhone 2.0 right after WWDC. Gizmodo’s source says the U.S. will get first dibs then other countries will be receiving their 3G iPhone ten days or so later. Apple will implement “new sales policies,” at least ... More About: Iphone , Rumors , June
COWON A3, Q5W 80GB Available in the U.S.
2008-05-20 19:52:00 COWON America has announce large capacities of two critically acclaimed COWON PMPs, the A3 and the Q5W. You can read our posts on the COWON Q5 here. What’s the difference between Q5 and QW5? Read it here. For the COWON A3, read it here. The 80GB COWON A3 will be available May 26 for an MSRP of ... More About: Cowon
uCan MP3 Player: Can You Wear It?
2008-05-20 19:20:00 The challenge to potential buyers of the uCan water-resistant music-playing “device” is not to prove it can play underwater but how to wear one. It calls itself the smallest water-resistant MP3 player. Specs include MP3 and WMA music, 1GB of storage and a battery that plays up to 15 hours of music. It’s cheap at ... More About: Player , Wear
UStar RM660 Wants to be Noticed
2008-05-19 22:48:00 You Star (Ustar) will not clone iPod, it seems to say, but instead make a better PMP. Too bad the RM660 looks like the runty cousin of the iPod Touch instead of being an improvement to the Apple device. Otherwise we’d be completely happy with the 399 yuan $57 price tag and the ambiguously ...
Multitouch Teclast T50 PMP
2008-05-19 17:18:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqlRmM-zuE M We told you iPod Touch should fear Teclast’s multitouch T50 and it is put in the hands of the MP4 Nation team to give us a pretty comprehensive preview of what Teclast exactly mean by multitouch. To cut a long story short, the T50 UI does support multi-gesture and more. Too bad the software isn’t ... More About: Multitouch
COWON A3 Now 80GB
2008-05-18 21:13:00 The COWON A3 PMP is not the best looking PMP in the world but it sure has a lot of fans, who I’m sure will be delighted that the A3 can now compete with other HDD PMPs in the market in terms of storage capacity. It’s not 250GB like China’s recent offerings but you get ... More About: Cowon
ZVUE Spirit MP3 is All-American
2008-05-18 09:17:00 If you’re an American and are passionate about it, then ZVUE has a treat for you. We haven’t heard about the “other” U.S. PMP maker that isn’t Microsoft in a while. We actually like the ZVUE 260 but, perhaps, it’s familiar iPod has turned off a lot of potential buyers. Hm. The Spirit , at $35.99 ...
iRiver P10 P.ple Video Review
2008-05-16 21:04:00 Remember the near-awesome iRiver P10 revealed at CES? To refresh your memory, it’s a 4.3-inch (800 x 480px) touchscreen PMP with DMB tuner, e-Dictionary TV out and all sorts of multimedia support (AVI, WMV, MPG, (XviD), MP3, WMA, OGG, APE, FLAC, WAV, DOC, TEXT, XLS, PPT, PDF, HWP, CSD, JPEG, BMP, SMI). It has also ... More About: Video , Review , Iriver
Asus Eee PC 901 has Bluetooth
2008-05-16 14:45:00 This comes from DigiTimes, a publication that focuses on Asian IT news. Asus will be launching a successor of the newly launched EeePC 900, which will, of course, be called EeePC 901. The 901 will have an Intel Atom processor and Bluetooth added as well. Bluetooth is a great addition to the Eee PC model ...
ZARVA ZIPPO MP320 MP3 Player
2008-05-16 13:45:00 The MP320 MP3 player may look too much like a novelty gadget to many people, but this is one novelty device that I can get behind. It’s officially the ZARVA ZIPPO MP320, and we will gladly assume that Zippo , the lighter manufacturer, is an official partner in this. The ZIPPO MP3 player has a small ... More About: Player
Imagine: BlackBerry Thunder in Korea
2008-05-15 20:49:00 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 ... More About: Blackberry , Industry News , Imagine
Video Preview of the HTC Touch Diamond
2008-05-15 19:46:00 Preview HTC Touch Diamond par GMP3by gmp3 Our lucky friends at GenerationMP3 has gotten their hands on the irresistibly fetching HTC Touch Diamond. The phone is smaller, sleeker and prettier than the iPhone and the WinMo 6.1 TouchFLO 3D user interface is not bad either. It would take an absolute miracle for Apple to beat the ... More About: Video , Preview , Video Preview
Cool 920 Dual SIM Phone Folds Out Like a Cobra
2008-05-15 16:19:00 We’ve seen a few dual-SIM phones but nothing like the Cool 920, found at Totobay (the World’s number one China mobile phone supplier). When folded, the phone is shiny and impressive, made more impressive with that extra layer of steel. It’s not only in the exterior where the 920 impresses: its a dual-SIM sual-Blootooth phone. ... More About: Phone , Cobra , Dual
Official: Philips X800
2008-05-14 20:26:00 The Philips Xenium 800 e2e touchscreen is official. By the looks of things, it will be called a more typical phone name… X800. The screen is 2.9 inches and will take up most of the face. There is only a hint of the frame around the screen. The phone can take up to 8 hours ... More About: Phone , Official
Samsung P3 With Haptic
2008-05-14 19:29:00 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 ... More About: Korea , Rumors
BlackBerry Thunder Exclusive to Verizon?
2008-05-13 19:12:00 After RIM announced the BlackBerry Bold for AT&T, a new rumor about the touchscreen BlackBerry has surfaced., the BlackBerry 9500. RIM has dubbed it Thunder . Yes, it sounds like a small step up Bold, but Thunder is a wholly different looking BlackBerry animal. The Thunder will be exclusive to Verizon and Vodafone. It will have ... More About: Exclusive , Phone , Blackberry
iRiver W7 Available in China for 2290 Yuan
2008-05-13 19:01:00 The iRiver W7 will be struggling to compete with lower-priced MP4 players. There are a number of 3-inch PMPs that go for less than 1,000 yuan but the WVGA 480 × 272-pixel screen of the W7 will be hard to beat. The W7 is not an NES, SNES emulator but the built-in Adobe Flash ... More About: China , Iriver
HTC Touch Diamond is Prettier than iPhone
2008-05-13 13:50:00 We asked you a week ago if the Apple iPhone should be afraid of the newly announced WinMo 6.1, HTC Touch Diamond . If we had a poll, I am betting a significant fraction would say yes. Chinese Engadget did more than compare photos of the two devices; they actually had an HTC Touch Diamond ... More About: Iphone
iSonic?s SnapBox X25 Swavorski CRISTALLIZED iPod Clone
2008-05-12 15:57:00 Would you believe this iPod clone with studded with Swavorski CRYSTALLIZED? with Swavorski elements is only $60 cheap? You’ll get a 1.8-inch screen and 2GB of memory. It plays AMV video files and audio MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, WAV. There’s voice recording thrown in and video playback - thrown in, as opposed to being delicately ... More About: Ipod , Clone
iPhone Asia Confirmed: Optus, Globe, SingTel and Bharti Airtel
2008-05-12 13:53:00 Apple has finalized a deal with Globe Telecoms for Philippine iPhone distribution, Singtel for Singapore, Bharti Airtel for India and Optus for Australia. No details are available yet except the announcement of the exclusive distributors for the various countries. [via yugatech] More About: Asia , Apple , Iphone
HiPhone Retailer in Europe Gets an Injunction From Apple
2008-05-11 20:50:00 Apple has had it with the HiPhone , the most successful iPhone clone out of China and they have given notice to a Europe an distributor of HiPhone-branded iPhone clones. The possible penalty for distributing HiPhones is stated as 25,000 Euros, which is quite hefty for a HiPhone retailer (yeah, we’ve asked one such retailer). Not only ... More About: Apple , Retailer
Touch Screen Sudoku Handheld
2008-05-11 20:18:00 For Sudoku fans who are getting tired of carrying paper books around, here’s a handheld from Zhengchang Electronics with 10,000 Sudoku games preloaded. Now, I am not a Sudoku fan myself but I am assuming 10,000 games should last you a couple of years of dedicated Sudoku gaming, so this gadget should be totally worth ... More About: Screen , Handheld , Touch , Touch Screen
Zune Hits 2 Million Mark, Takes 4%
2008-05-11 13:11:00 Microsoft’s announcement couldn’t have come at a better time. After being out of mainstream news for quite some time, Zune is finally back in the front pages of technology news. Released in November 2006, Zunes have been selling modestly and have finally reached the 2 million-unit mark. Since Q1 2007, Zune has actually moved up ... More About: Pod , Apple , Microsoft , Hits
iPhone Unavailable at Apple Store
2008-05-11 09:13:00 The Apple iPhone has been unavailable since yesterday. It may continue being available until it is replaced by the new 3G iPhone. Apple might have learned its lesson well when it announced a price cut of the iPhone three months after it was officially released. The new 3G-connected iPhone is definitely on its way. It’s ... More About: Iphone , Store , Apple Store
Gizmondo: Return of the Prodigal?
2008-05-10 20:44:00 We here at PMPToday have no idea what all the fuss was about. So a couple of Swedes ad come up with an idea of putting GPRS and GPS on a gaming console, so what? Now we hear that Carl Freer, the non-embezzling co-owner of Gizmondo’s parent company, Tiger Telemantics, will release a new version ... More About: Industry News , Return , Return of the
Aigo?s Patriot MV5920 Dual-Core MP5 Player Breaks Through W/ HDTV Playback
2008-05-09 13:40:00 They’re calling this a breakthrough device, a PMP with WiFi and supports mobile TV. But that’s not the breakthrough yet for this HD (up to 160GB) MP5 Player (a PMP in China that supports RealMedia). The MV5920, due to its dual-core technology no doubt, also supports video playback at HD 720p (1280 x 720 pixels), ... More About: Patriot , Dual Core , Core , Breaks
Mammoth Newman M8000 With up to 250Gb of Storage
2008-05-09 11:43:00 We likes the M8000 the first time we saw it but now we really, really like it. It’s an all-around HD PMP with a 4-inch TFT screen, lot of multimedia support, a camera, TV Out, game emulation, PVR functionality, etc. It also comes with 80GB of hard disk space, which is all I really need ... More About: Storage
Sony PMX-M77 Gets a 100 Yuan Price Cut
2008-05-09 11:22:00 The PMX-M70 series is Sony ’s priciest China-only PMP and it’s getting a price cut. Why have a price cut now and why only 100 yuan (about $14) only Sony can answer that. Now only 1599 yuan ($229), users will be getting a 4.3-inch screen, 4GB of storage and line-in video and audio recording and, of ... More About: Price
iPhone?s Safari Plays Embedded YouTube Video
2008-05-09 00:35:00 The iPhone SDK will finally bring YouTube to the safari browser on your iPhone. For the unitiated, this is not the same as the YouTube Player in your iPhone, which is a wholly separate app. This isn’t even real Flash support as YouTube is played via a plugin that allows you to play embedded YouTube ... More About: Video , Youtube , Safari , Iphone
COWON D2 16GB Available in the U.S.
More articles from this author:2008-05-09 00:03:00 The 16GB COWON D2 is available at JetMall.net for $239.99. Not a bad price, though when our friends at GenerationMP3 first spotted it a few hours ago it was only around $225. The features listed are just what we expected from the D2 without any significant changes except the storage capacity. The 16GB version ... More About: Cowon 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
