If you find yourself dazzled by the Web, video, and music capabilities of Apple’s iPhone but can’t stomach the contract commitment, the iPod Touch might be just what you’re looking for. Offered in 8GB ($299) and 16GB ($399) capacities, the iPod Touch is a premium-priced device with an attractive set of features for a midsize portable video player (PVP). Still, the Touch’s limited storage capacity makes it a difficult choice when held up to higher capacity products like the iPod Classic or Archos 605 WiFi.

Read more… »

Battery life of MP3 players has been greatly increased the last years, with companies such as Cowon and Sony leading the way with up to 60 hours of music playback. The record is now broken, as Panasonic intros an MP3 player with a whopping 100 hours of music playback.

Read more… »

Iriver showed off many new devices at CES 2008 and from what I was told they actually plan on playing a bit more in the US market. An interesting device they showed off was the W7, with a 3” 260k color, 480 x 272 pixel touch screen. The player is flash based in 4GB and 8GB capacities with the option to add miniSD memory.

Read more… »

As promised, we are going to dive deeper in all kinds of audio players, not only portable, so it is time to review one of newest CD/MP3 DJ players - Pioneer cdj-400. Unmistakably Pioneer, the CDJ-400 is a design hybrid between the lower end CDJ-200 and the 800/1000 top end, bridging the gap into which it fits perfectly. It’s predominantly plastic, with just the odd splash of metal - but that doesn’t mean it feels cheap. Sure, it’s lightweight and the new smaller 135mm/5.25” jog wheel has the same eversoslightly rattling but familiar feel to it, but all the controls have a reassuring smoothness when you use them. Even the pitch control, which is often added as a flimsy afterthought on other units, slides nicely with a gentle but needed centre click.

Read more… »

Light and comfortable, stylish in design, with slim, silver ear-cups and a black head-band. The headband seems a little flimsy. Speaker cups are small, but still comfortable. Good length of cable, 2m or so and they have full-size and miniature jack plugs connections. They sound good and cope well with the bass and when the volume is turned up.

Read more… »

When the new line of Zunes was announced, the addition of a flash-based model stole the show, but the new hard-drive-based Zune is a huge improvement on its 30GB predecessor with a better user interface, faster controls, and more features—including wireless syncing.

Read more… »

Here is Top10 of some interesting and useful accessories for iPod.

Read more… »

Coby, a manufacturer who arrives to us from the United States while passing by China, has just revealed his last creation: the MP-835, an apparatus which seems to have for ambition to come to titillate APPLE and its iPod Touch on the market of the minis-PMP with tactile interface, while being slightly inspired by this last in order to increase its chances. The machine received legal certifications FCC/CE, has a screen TFT LCD of 3″which it will be thus possible to handle with the finger through resolution of 480×272 pixels, and also embarks 2GB with 4GB of memory flash, a slot microSD, a FM tuner, a catch jack of 3.5mm, a port USB 2.0 as well an interface multi-languages. It offers a compatibility MP3, WMA, OGG, AVI, WMV, JPG, BMP, GIF and TXT. Its dimensions are of 52×97×10mm.

[via  GenerationMP3]

Great news for iPhone owners. Wikipedia on your own device! Require 2GB free disk space (iPhone has 16GB).

You can download it here collison.ie.

“Geohot still struck, whereas the users of iPhones with firmware 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 started to lose any hope to see their desimlocke apparatus, the hackers has just announced the possibility of curing this problem in manner software and that very simply… Here small an English tutorial of handling to be realized”-  GenerationMp3.

You can read all article here: How to unlock iPhone?