Archive for the ‘Portable Music Players’ Category

A group of enterprising Zune homebrew developers have banded together to release the first version of the OpenZDK homebrew SDK for the Zune device lineup. From the board: “The first true hack available for the Zune, this makes it possible to, for the first time, run applications directly on top of the Zune firmware, with [...]

Microsoft has begun rolling out the latest firmware update for the Microsoft Zune and Zune HD series after months of anticipation. The update features expanded video codec support with the inclusion of Xvid video support, Smat DJ support, Zune Marketplace streaming via Wi-Fi, personalized recommendations and support for TV shows on the Marketplace. To access [...]

It’s the holy grail: A Dell Mini 5 without the cell phone. An iPod touch killer that can tackle the iPad. It’s something that lets you pair a dumbphone with Bluetooth, and have an iPhone killer. At least, that’s what the bullet points represent. Either way, it’s the Archos 5 Internet Tablet. While it started [...]

A new firmware update is now available for the Archos 5 Internet Tablet, with the biggest fix being fixed Bluetooth DUN and PAN for tethering a cellphone to the device for data access. Other fixes include suspend mode now functioning after being mounted on a computer via USB, videos encode with the MP4 container playing [...]

A new firmware update for the Microsoft Zune HD has been revealed, which will add more new features to the media player. Native XviD encoded video support will be included with a new Zune software feature in Smart DJ being ported to the player, offering instant track suggestions similar to the iPod’s Genius features and [...]

We promise this is about as far away as the iConsole as you can get… If there wasn’t a better case for the March to Boredom declaration we made earlier, we’d call this one good enough for case in point. Haier is basically selling HDTVs with “built-in gaming” and wireless controllers… Wii-like wireless controllers. That [...]

Amazon has posted the long-awaited and forthcoming Archos 5 Android-based Internet Tablet series for pre-order. The Archos 5 features a 4.8 inch capacitive widescreen touch display at WVGA resolution, storage choices between 8GB of flash memory all the way up to a 500 GB hard disk drive, Android with the custom Archos frontend featuring Super [...]

Image courtesy of Gizmodo According to the tag in the picture the Zune HD will become available on September 15 as opposed to the original September 8 date rumored a few months ago.  Of course, this is still another rumor but it still matches with the Fall release timeframe previously announced.  Both Amazon and Best [...]

A few main aspects of the Zune HD which were not known upon the announcement of the Zune HD is the pricing and availability. However, according to some Best Buy inventory screen shot leaks, it looks like the Zune HD is slated for a September 8th release. The 16GB Zune HD model is set to [...]

Samsung’s latest MP3 Player, the YP-R1 has been released on a British online electronic store. Since it was leaked on a British website, and not Samsung’s official store, details were hard to come by, but here is what we know about the tiny little device. The YP-R1 bears many similarities in terms of UI to [...]