Archive for the ‘Portable Music Players’ Category

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 shipping last [...]

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 back [...]

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 all sounds [...]

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 Widget [...]

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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 Buy [...]

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 [...]

Archos is another big player in the MP3 player market, after Microsoft and Apple anyway. Today, they announced a new generation of MP3 Player on their website, however, only a few details are available at this time.

First off, the new 8GB devices boasts a 3 inch touch screen, which is pretty big [...]

Energizer and partner XPAL recently announced that they will be teaming up to come out with a line of Energi To Go lithium polymer rechargeable power packs and emergency chargers for a bunch of different types of mobile devices such as PMPs, PNDs, portable DVD players, GPS, digital cameras, camcorders, netbooks and digicams. There’s no [...]