Archives for Portable MP3 Players category
If you are looking for a lightweight MP3 player, Samsung’s K3 2GB or 4GB player is worth your consideration. It weighs just 200g, includes a bright OLED screen and proves simple to use.
Interview with Robbie Bach. He is in charge of the Xbox, Zune, and Windows Mobile- all of those ultra competitive consumer devices. In this interview the question of whether or not we would see a Zune phone was brought up.
Rover Computers has announced new portable media player called “RoverMedia Aria S7 Viewer”. This device has a lot of cool features, which will be appreciated by music and video lovers. It has unique feature for playing all kinds of video, audio files without need of additional converting. It has 2,9″ 16:9 LCD display. By releasing this device Rover Computers brought some news into mp3 players market with it’s ability to play ape and flac audio files.
One of my favorite gadgets was the Mvix 5000U- it was one of Mvix’s first media boxes released a few years ago. The only time it was disconnected was so it could be filled with more media. The interface was crude but it really handled playback well especially the DVD ISO I kept ripping to the internal hard drive. The pain of it was I had to keep running it back and from my living room to my office to keep it hard drive filled with my latest videos.
The Sansa e200 is one of the best selling budget players ever and that shows on the number of loyal users it has. The original firmware is buggy and somewhat limited, so when Rockbox was released on the player many people praised it. Now a new player has joined the game, SansaLinux.
MobiBLU Cubes were popular back in the days and introduced us to tiny mp3 players long before the Zen Stone or Sansa Clip even hit the drawing board. The series has been dead for a while now, so it’s surprising to see that it’s now back in the shape of the Cube3.
Transcend recently introduced a new addition to its successful line of T.sonic MP3 players – the T.sonic 615. Based on the popular design of Transcend’s best-selling T.sonic 610, the new T.sonic 615 boasts familiar good looks and an extremely lightweight compact design. The T.sonic 615 has a lustrous pearl-white casing and a brilliant dual-color OLED display that is easy to read from any angle, even in broad daylight. As a high capacity (up to 4GB) portable music player, the T.sonic 615 allows for storage of up to 1000 songs, and on a full charge provides 15 hours of seamless music entertainment.
If you have a cheap generic flash MP3 player with a voice recording feature, you can mod it to accept a standard microphone. Great for lo-fi podcasting. First open it up. Inside you’ll probably find something like this:
During the early days of the iPod, Mac planned to create a bulletproof case for the iPod. I’m not sure if the bulletproof iPod made it’s way to the market or not. Bulletproof iPod? Ever heard of it before?
Following in the steps of the much-hyped (and deservedly so) 20GB H320, the 5GB H10 is the first microdrive player from iRiver to be widely available. Joining the microdrive mania later in the game, the iRiver H10 truly outclasses the competition in the features department, with a built-in FM tuner, a voice recorder, a photo-friendly color screen, and a removable battery. Plus, it’s Janus compatible out of the box. However, its controls aren’t as intuitive as they look, and battery life was disappointing.
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