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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
Exon?s Quran PDA Phone Boots Windows Mobile 6 and Linux
2008-05-08 05:55:00 The T-rexon MP747-SM from Exon International (not to be confused with the oil company) claims to be the tiniest PDA phone in the world measuring 90 x 46 x 10 mm and weighing only 90g with the battery included. It also runs both Linux and Windows Mobile 6.0. This is the genuine article, the manufacturers ... More About: Phone , Windows Mobile
Photo of 3G iPhone Suggesting Bigger Than Ever Screen
2008-05-08 04:18:00 If the purported leaked Picture of 3G iPhone nabbed by Apple Insider is authentic, the Philip Xenum 800 may have a competitor on the e2e front. The photo also suggests that the iPhone is moving toward the PDA form factor with a more squarish shape and sharper edges. I’m thinking, they keep increasing the size ... More About: Screen , Photo , Iphone
Zune Canada is Official, XNA in May
2008-05-07 18:48:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTXa6Ztuu3 s Move over SNES emulators, XNA will be coming soon to a Zune near you. Zune gameplay will support ad hoc WiFi network gaming with up to eight players, and it’s just too cool watching Zauri being played on the Zune 2 using the Zune Pad. For Canadians, the Zune will be dropping June 13. The Zune ... More About: Microsoft , Canada , Official
Onda VX777 Boasts WiFi, Net Radio
2008-05-07 18:28:00 The VX777 is Onda ’s best PMP so far feature-wise. In what seems like a features overdose of sorts, Onda, which is known for its widescreen PMPs, has gone ballistic and automatically nominated itself to the high-end market populated by the likes of Archos and Zune. The 4.3-inch (480 x 272) touchscreen is on of the ... More About: Radio , Wifi
Philips Xenium 800 Edge-to-Edge Touch Screen
2008-05-07 15:48:00 Philips is a dark horse in the handset industry. Their last significant outing was a clamshell phone (Xenium NRG) that can run on AAA batteries. Even more noteworthy is a series of Xenium phones (9@9) with a standby time of up to 40 days. Depending on your needs, Philips has been making dream handsets that ... More About: Screen , Philips , Touch , Edge , Touch Screen
3G iPhone: Apple Goes Back to White
2008-05-07 09:35:00 I know some people who were disappointed when they found out the Apple iPhone was black (take the poll below). They will rejoice if this rumor turned out to be fact. Coming from a Chinese forum, they don’t seem all that reliable but that doesn’t mean we cannot feast our eyes on the elegant new ... More About: Iphone , Rumors , White
Sprint Instinct GPS vs iPhone Maps
2008-05-07 01:45:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKEKEk_T7Z A This is a video made by Sprint Instinct’s online marketing team showing how “tap for tap” Instinct’s built-in GPS is superior to getting you to your destination than iPhone’s built in Google Maps . But we all know that. What’s refreshing is seeing the slim Samsung Instinct beside the too-wide iPhone. Hm, I know karate is ... More About: Iphone
HTC Touch Diamond: Should iPhone Fear It?
2008-05-06 17:31:00 First, let me just say this: the user interface is very impressive. You will not be able to take your eyes off the excellent VGA screen when you’re navigating. Dubbed Touch FLO 3D (which must be the HTC Manila leaked some months ago), it can seriously be considered as more appealing to consumers than iPhone ’s user ... More About: Iphone , Fear , Diamond
Zune 2.5 Firmware: TV Downloads + Zune Card Sharing + Gapless Music
2008-05-06 15:57:00 Microsoft has made the Zune a lot better in the new 2.5 firmware update. The Zune, virtually officially, is going a different direction from the Apple iPod. I will not hesitate to pronounce the Zune a non-competition of the iPod after the 2.5 firmware. The Zune Video download spotted a couple of days ago turned ... More About: Music , Downloads , Microsoft , Card
Chinese Handwriting Recognition on iPhone?
2008-05-06 04:51:00 Never mind that the iPhone does not have a Chinese distributor and perhaps never will in the foreseeable future, but that does not stop some Chinese iPhone enthusiasts from conjuring up functions like Chinese handwriting recognition, which to my mind at least is a brilliant firmware upgrade. A screen shot of the interface was posted ... More About: Iphone , Rumors , Recognition
Fillwinn Fw8800 iPhone Clone Has GPS
2008-05-05 19:13:00 It looks like the FW8800 is one iPhone knockoff that isn’t too impressed with Steve Jobs’ first phone and went to add the missing ingredient. While Fillwinn Enterprise Holdings International Ltd. has retained the iPhone’s famous multi-touch user interface and other features like the 3.5-inch 320×480 pixel 160 ppi screen, 2.0 megapixel camera, WiFi, Bluetooth ... More About: Iphone , Clone
Epoda?s EP2501 Water-Proof GSM Watch Phone
2008-05-05 17:25:00 The EP2501 from Epoda Technology Co. Ltd is not only a watch phone, which in itself is a technological feat worthy of praise, it’s also a water-proof watch-phone. Honestly I have a bias for convergence technology that takes into account the little things like water-proofness and durability previously only found in one genre of ... More About: Watch , Phone , Water , Proof
Cooper Launches Amber F1 Gold PMP
2008-05-05 08:24:00 The Amber F1 looks like a fancy lighter at the back but boasts a 2.8-inch movie-playing screen in front framed with the most desirable metal in the world. Whatever Cooper , a manufacturer we’ve never heard of before, is thinking when it decided to launch this gilded media player, we are doubly impressed that the ... More About: Gold
AT&T 3G iPhone for $199
2008-05-04 23:07:00 Rumor - AT&T will increase its subsidy on the iPhone . Not only will it give up a significant portion of its earning for each iPhone subscription, it’s going to shave off $200 on the iPhone 3G price with no loss for Apple. That’s how desperate AT&T is in making the iPhone a true RAZR replacement. ... More About: Iphone , Rumors
Yoto M300: Another iPhone Clone Out of the Wood Work
2008-05-04 22:25:00 Yuantong, known to us as Yoto, has launched the M300, an iPod Touch wannabe that boasts a RK27XX and support for AVI, DIVX, MPEG4, RM, XVID, RMVB, FLV, MP3, WMA, FLAC, APE, JPG, GIF, and BMP, which is kind of awesome, especially when it supports games as well. The 3-inch screen has WQVGA (400 ... More About: Iphone , Work , Clone , Wood
Teclast T50 Unboxing
2008-05-03 22:09:00 OMG! Does the Teclast T50 touch screen support multi-gesture? It sure looks like it. A user at a Chinese forum just posted his unboxing photos of a newly bought Teclast T50 and in one of the pic we could see him resizing a photo using two fingers: pinch fingers to zoom out, split them to ...
Teclast C300 is More Chocolate with a Swiss Chip
2008-05-03 08:07:00 Teclast may never get over their Chocolate obsession. To tell the truth, the C300 doesn’t look that much different from the earlier Teclast M30. In fact the C300 is described by Teclast as “a classic 2.8-inch screen 4:3 ratio of the Real players.” After two years of cloning the LG Chocolate phone by hundreds of ... More About: Swiss , Chip
Zune Marketplace Adds Videos? Movies?
2008-05-03 02:31:00 I couldn’t get the Flash display to work on my browser, but a poster at Zune rama took screen shots of what appears to be an update of the Zune Marketplace . Marketplace have just added video downloads but it’s not exactly a major upheaval to offer music videos on Zune. The roaring face of King Kong, ... More About: Videos , Movies , Microsoft
iPhone vs. Free Nokia N95, LG Viewty, BlackBerry Pearl
2008-05-03 00:19:00 Still wondering why the Apple iPhone isn’t such a hot n the U.K? Here’s why. The Brits can get the best high-end force for free, with the iPhone as one of the very few exceptions. Given the choice of a WiFi, 3G, HSDPA 5MP camera Nokia N95 with 8GB of storage fully subsidized by the ... More About: Iphone , Blackberry , Free , Pearl
Omenex Izy Touch, an iTouch Rival from France
2008-05-02 21:57:00 Never heard of Omenex? We’ve never heard of it either until today. Their new Izy Touch could easily be an iPod Touch beater if it wasn’t so thick-looking, though the manufacturer page says it’s a decent 12mm. Good thing the Izy Touch is compatible with OS X as well as Windows Vista, XP, 98 and ... More About: France , Itouch
Samsung Instinct Coming in June
2008-05-02 00:25:00 Sprint is betting big on the Samsung Instinct. I don’t blame them. When this touchscreen phone gets released in June , it will be the most fully featured CDMA phone with its Haptics enhanced touchscreen, Sprint TV, GPS, 3G and HSDPA. The Samsung Instinct will be backed by $100 million in marketing money and word is ...
Garmin Nuvifone for $499.99
2008-05-01 23:35:00 Garmin’s GPS touchscreen phone (Nuviphone) will be available very soon and before it officially comes out, tech-savvy readers were surveyed regarding the phone’s pricing and data plan. An Engadget reader was one of the lucky few who got surveyed and too a snapshot from the survey. The question: “Now, how likely would you be to buy ... More About: Garmin , Navigation , Maps
2nd-Gen Zune Clone Sold on eBay
2008-05-01 18:15:00 Microsoft will go nutters over this piece of news. The Zune 8 (8GB) has been cloned and the fake has been sold on eBay. For the year that we have been covering PMP news, this is the first time we’ve come across an real Zune knockoff. In fact, though we searched high and low, this ... More About: Microsoft , Ebay , Clone , Sold
TEKXON MX550 MP4 has a 5MP CMOS Camera
2008-05-01 02:11:00 TEKXON DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES LTD[HK] is actually saying the MX550 PMP is a 12 megapixel digicam with PMP functionality added but the fine print says it only has a 5 megapixel CMOS sensor onboard. It’s stll very impressive, though, what with the TV in/out, video recording, MP3 and MP4 playback and a ear phone thrown ... More About: Camera , Cmos
Samsung T10 Goes Original Like Zune
2008-05-01 00:16:00 Well, not exactly. The Samsung YP-T10 “Flower” will come out of the box engraved with floral designs but you’ll have to like them just the way they are. I personally think it looks awesome. I’d still go for the customized engravings of the Zune , but the Samsung T10 player is too appealing a player (especially ... More About: Original
Tsinghua Tongfang PMC-M880 Goes Finnish
2008-04-30 20:01:00 The Chinese company Tsinghua Tongfang has announced a new PMP that supports TV out at 720 × 576-pixel resolution. This is very good quality TV out resolution for a PMP. The PMC-M880, on its own, has a 3 inches of viewing space with 400 x 240 pixels. You might find that the M880, like ...
Choose Your Cect HiPhone Apple Clone
2008-04-29 19:24:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3mbLGjTfh U Cect has released so many iPhone clones we are at a loss trying to make sense about product histories. It’s obvious, Cect doesn’t make cellphones like Apple , which will be releasing iPhone 2.0 after the original has had a full year in the market. On the Chinese side, there is the Cect 599, the P168+, ... More About: Clone , Choose
Rogers iPhone for Canadians May be too Pricey
2008-04-29 18:20:00 It’s officials, the tech-hungry Canadians will have their own iPhone, thanks to a deal struck by Rogers Wirless with Apple. Rogers refused to release information on pricing and availability, though they promise to do it so later in the year. “We’re thrilled to announce that we have a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone ... More About: Iphone
Nokia Maps 2.0 Adds Real Time Traffic Information (RTTI)
2008-04-29 11:23:00 Mapping on Nokia phones has just improved with the introduction of Real Time Traffic or RTT to the Nokia Maps service. This is a premium add-on to Nokia Maps 2.0. With the increasing convergence of mobile devices, especially in devices under the Nokia branding, the new development puts personal navigation devices or PNDs at ... More About: Information , Navigation
Asus Eee PC Corporation Contemplates: 11-Inch Laptop
More articles from this author:2008-04-28 20:46:00 News from Digitimes is not always right on the money but Digi is a respected Chinese publication and it’s based on where the actual devices in question are being built. This time around, the “big deal” might have something to do with translating Chinese into English (digitally through Google Translator and Altavista’s Babelfish). It’s either ... More About: Laptop , Asus , Corporation , Inch 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
