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Opinion: Apple 3G iPhone is no iPod
2008-06-10 12:49:00 No one is saying this right now, but to me the 3G iPhone is already a flop. The iPhone is Apple ’s iPod for the mobile phone market. The company promised 10 million iPhones in people’s hands by 2008. No doubt, it will fall short of its predictions. Apple has sold over 170 million iPods and that’s ... More About: Iphone , Ipod , Opinion
Nokia ?Tube? 5800 XpressMedia, N96 and N85 Leaked
2008-06-10 07:23:00 While Apple slightly disappoints with a familiar-looking iPhone v2, Nokia has more interesting phones to introduce June 9. These aren’t official releases just yet but the Flickr photos have appeared and along with very credible specs from a few blogs. More About: Tube , Leaked
WWDC Keynote: 8GB 3G iPhone for $199
2008-06-09 21:19:00 A new iPhone will be sold by exclusive carriers around the world at $199 (or thereabouts in territories outside the U.S.) for the 8GB version. For the 16GB version you’ll have to pay $100 more. Disappointingly, the new iPhone is only slightly different from the original. It is not as wide as the old one ... More About: Keynote , Iphone
Apple Store Down: 3G iPhone Confirmed for WWDC
2008-06-09 17:39:00 Well, it’s “virtually” confirmed. The iPhone v2 will be announced at the WWDC in a few hours time. Why are we so sure? Pundits all around the world, writing for the thousands of tech sites that know a thing or two about Apple , Steve Jobs say so. In addition, Apple stores are down. It couldn’t ... More About: Iphone , Store , Apple Store
Touch Screen Zune Coming?
2008-06-09 10:56:00 In an interview that covered Windows Mobile phones, HD DVD and Xbox 360, Microsoft Entertainment Devices & Division President Robbie Bach also dropped a hint about a Zune competitor for iPod Touch . That’s right, a touchscreen Zune. Of course, a touchscreen Zune raises many possibilities, among which is a possible Windows Mobile OS developed strictly ... More About: Screen , Touch Screen
Chuwi T8 PMP Leaked Photos: ???
2008-06-08 20:05:00 Apparently, someone in a Chinese BBS site has spy shots of the famous Chuwi T8. The what? This is a player that is supposed to have something called Dual cover and support for RMVB and boasts a new touch screen technology, which therefore have “aroused people’s concern.” It has TV out, too. The exposed cell ... More About: Photos , Leaked
3G iPhone Subsidy: Exclusive Provider to Change the Game
2008-06-08 19:36:00 Good news for everyone. Nothing official just yet but based on the language of the report it’s highly likely Apple will allow subsidies for the iPhone 3G. The rumor was reported by the Financial Times. The pressure is coming from mobile operators mainly after Apple tacitly accepted the strategy of selling unsubsidized iPhone is no ... More About: Exclusive , Iphone , Change , Game
Nokia, then RIM, then Apple in World Smartphone Rankings
2008-06-08 07:42:00 Apple is a far number two in the U.S. and takes a dive to number three in the world smartphone market where Nokia reigns. For an ordinary manufacturer, Apple is making a good show after only a year in the cellphone industry but, then, Apple is no ordinary manufacturer. The Apple iPhone may be the ... More About: Apple , World , Smartphone , Industry News
RAmos V8 is 3 inches in the Box
2008-06-07 19:35:00 We’ve been pretty excited about an upcoming player from RAmos. Wouldn’t you be excited when you read that possible specs include a 4.3-inch touch screen, WiFi and even Net radio. But it turns out the V8 is a more typical RAmos PMP than we had expected: 3-inch screen, 4GB storage with a Rockchip processor and ... More About: Ramos
WINDOW G30: Old iPod Clone or Sony Walkman Wannabe?
2008-06-07 11:54:00 WINDOW’s G30 PMP is a 2.8-inch player. It fits in your pocket, plays RMVB, AVI, FLV and Lossless audio files. Our source article also mentions the rather brick-like form factor of the G30 is comparable to old iPod models. I beg to differ. Though the G30 can be quite thin from some angles, it does ... More About: Ipod , Sony , Clone , Walkman , Window
iPhone 2.0 With 2.8-inch Screen in Full Glory
2008-06-07 06:30:00 Host Optical may not have been fooling us when it revealed the new iPhones will have 3.2- and 2.8-inch screens. The photo grabbed by Crunchgear is definitely a small-screen iPhone with a bigger frame-to-screen ratio. The phone, though, is mighty thin, and at the back we have big speakers. There’s even a Product(Red) version. And ... More About: Screen , Iphone , Full , Inch , Glory
New iPhone Screen Sizes Unveiled by Host Optical
2008-06-07 05:15:00 Tech blog iLounge couldn’t believe it either: the iPhone screen is going to be smaller than the current one at about 3.2 inches, and that is just the big version. There’s even a smaller iPhone, coming with a 2.8-inch screen. Hm, something wrong with the picture above. After all these months covering iPhone clones and ... More About: Screen , Iphone , Optical , Host
Sprint Launches Another ?Why Instinct is Better Than iPhone? Video
2008-06-05 20:04:00 The Sprint Instinct has one more feature that puts it ahead of the iPhone… Speech to Action. On the right of the Instinct you have a button. Hold it down to command the phone to give you the news, the weather, the directions or to call someone in your contact list. This isn’t as fancy ... More About: Video , Iphone
Mumu iCan Q16 Plays Cute with old Nano Design
2008-06-05 16:37:00 Let’s face it, Apple will never go back to the second-gen Nano design, but if you’re really missing the slim form factor of Apple’s most popular player, there are a lot of Chinese alternatives to choose. The latest of these class of Nano clones is the Mumu’s iCan Q16. The Q16 doesn’t only bring you ... More About: Cute , Design , Plays
Apple iPhone gets VLC Media Player
2008-06-05 13:50:00 Only available for jailbroken iPhone and iPod Touch, VLC media will give your apple devices a little bit more multimedia range. No lengthy conversion for iPod Touch anymore but almost instantaneous playback of MPEG and AVI with further support for VCD, DivX, etc. in the future. Interface is easy drag-and-drop, a worthy app for a ... More About: Media Player , Media , Apple , Iphone , Player
Newman COOL MAN to Kill Samsung S2
2008-06-05 08:00:00 Had any doubts that Samsung ’s S2 “Pebble” player has any chance against the iPhod Shuffle? Newman’s COOL MAN may put the question to rest, because once a PMP get its Chinese clone there’s no stopping it taking over the world. And if you’ve got many clones, then, well, you’re the Jesus Phone. Perhaps the most interesting ... More About: Cool , Kill
Onda VX777 Touchscreen PMP Gets Previewed
2008-06-05 04:58:00 Tired of the iPod clones from China offering the usual bland touchscreen user interface that, most likely, only supports stylus input… here’s a preview of the Onda VX777. The VX777 is perhaps the best designed PMP for Onda’s “Boeing” series… you know, the line that includes the VX747, VX757, etc. To recap: the VX777 supports FLV, ... More About: Touchscreen
Small Wonder: Leady MM95
2008-06-04 14:51:00 We love our position as the English-language destination for cheap gadgets from China. We love it even more that our advertisers share our interest in cheap iPod and iPhone alternatives and sometimes our sponsors themselves become a great resource for PMP news. For instance, I just noticed Totobay’s new banner ad. In fact, I’m amazed ... More About: Small , Small Wonder
NVIDIA Tegra to Change the PMP World
2008-06-04 03:34:00 With all the talk about iPhone and iPod Touch, we at PMP Today have been wondering what it takes to be a real game changer in the portable media player industry. We couldn’t think of anything ourselves but after NVIDIA announced its second Tegra processor for mobile devices, we realized we have found that game ... More About: World , Change
Mio?s Mystery PND Camera Wows
2008-06-03 11:17:00 Mio has several new products for launch, all pushing the boundaries of convergence. The most interesting though is the unnamed PND + Camera . It’s not a phone, just a GPS personal navigator with a 3.5-inch touch screen and a big camera lens with optical zoom. No more detail is available for now but if you’re ... More About: Navigation , Mystery
mobiBLU i30 PMP Goes to China
2008-06-03 10:09:00 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 ... More About: China , Korea
BlackBerry Beating iPhone in Sales
2008-06-03 09:12:00 RIM reports that the BlackBerry is still the number one smartphone in the U.S. That’s right, #1. BlackBerry ate up 44.5% of the smartphone market in the first three months of this year. The Apple iPhone was a far second at 19.2%. That’s less than half of BlackBerry’s market. Palm, thanks to the Centro took ... More About: Iphone , Blackberry , Sales , Beating
TG Sambo (CP-1000), the 4.8-inch iPod Touch Killer
2008-06-02 13:08:00 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, ... More About: Korea , Ipod , Killer , Touch , Inch
Zune Canada: Is It a Different Zune?
2008-06-02 01:14:00 One way Microsoft could make Zune a success in Canada is by having a different Zune distributed there compared with the one being sold below the border. Tough luck, but maybe Canadians can put a different eye into things. OxCafe did another review of the flash Zune as they received it in Canada, despite all ...
Touchscreen Onda VX777 Gets Ready for Launch
2008-06-01 00:18:00 Features have been finalized for the Onda VX777. This is a player Onda began to hype a bit a la iPhone leaking features such as camera, WiFi and Net radio. The real VX777 is a more straightforward PMP: 3.0-inch (400 × 240) 16:10 touch screen, TV-out, RMVB support with embedded Real Player 11. It ... More About: Launch , Touchscreen , Ready
RAmos V85 Clones Giorgio Armani
2008-05-31 20:33:00 If you thought that only the iPhone gets clones, you obviously have never heard of the LG Chocolate. RAmos’s Blue Devil V85 (no relation to RAmos V8), however, is not a clone of the iPhone iPod Touch or LG Chocolate. Only the absolutely best designed device will do for the V85 and that device turns ... More About: Armani , Ramos , Giorgio Armani , Giorgio
iRiver SPINN + DAB Headed to U.K.
2008-05-30 20:53:00 The Brits will have the iRiver SPINN shipped to them ahead of everyone. The SPINN will be shipped with an extra DAB tuner. Price is yet unknown for the 4, 8 and 16GB versions. The SPINN features a 3.2-inch AMOLED display and 30fps support for video files. It boasts the new SPINN user interface ... More About: Iriver , Spinn
HTC Touch Diamond Available Online but Ships to Hong Kong First
2008-05-30 19:17:00 People in Europe ca get their hands on the uber-beautiful and expensive HTC Touch Diamond online. DechoWireless, PopularElect and Welectronics will ship them for $780 to $850. Pricey compared to the iPhone but a VGA screen (best in the industry), WiFi, GPS and A-GPS and TouchFLO 3D touch screen do not come cheap. It’s pricier ... More About: Hong Kong , Online , Ships
Asus Eee PC 1000 to Launch
2008-05-30 04:37:00 Next Tuesday, we will see yet another Eee PC model. The 10-inch Asus Eee PC is slated for a November shipping. Pricing is still unknown and so are the specs. Hopefully the premium we are paying for the low-spec’d ultraportable will no longer be valid on the 10-inch model. Translation: Eee PC 1000 should be ... More About: Launch
Maxspeed?s MAK003 iPhone Clone Has Weird Cyclop Eye
More articles from this author:2008-05-30 04:10:00 The 2.8-inch multitouch (!) MAK003 from Maxspeed Industry Development Limited glows threateningly from a peephole right where the iPhone clone Home should be. It plays RM/RMVB,FLV, AVI/ MPEG-4 and MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC, AAC and WAV. Dgital recording and a 3D equalizer (presumably via Microsoft PlayFX) is its other attributes. The writte specifications of the ... More About: Weird , Iphone , Clone 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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