MSI solar powered “MP3 Mega Player 540″ The player has a solar panel on the back to recharge its lithium-ion battery. The question here is whether that small solar panel will catch enough rays to do any serious charging. The player also sports a 4GB storage capacity, an FM radio and a photo browser.
If you are looking for an MP3 player that is a little different…. If you love PEZ… If you like the idea of a stay-at-home dad, working out of his basement, taking on the giants of Cupertino, Tokyo, and Seoul… If you love independent music, podcasts, blogs, maverick ideas, and doing it yourself… This is the MP3 player for you.
This people at Cowon won’t stop surprising us , this time they bring us the great Iaudio6
MP3, OGG, WMA, ASF, FLAC, WAV, MPEG4(video) playback,
FM Radio Receiver and Recording, Voice Recording, Line-In Recording
built-in 0.85 inch HDD (4GB)
Supports MAC OS (Data transfer only), Supports Linux v 2.2 or higher (Data transfer only)
jetShell (File transfer, MP3/WMA/WAV/AUDIO CD PLAY)
jetAudio VX (Integrated multimedia player software, music/video conversion feature)
Read full specs from Cowon.
Just for $329 you can buy today the new version of the 30GB U2 special edition, with the same style as its antecessor, black and stainless steel, red navigation wheel and engraved on the back the signatures of U2’s four band members it now has video capabilities, a battery life of up to 14 hours, two more than the older version. It can hold up to 7,500 songs, 25,000 photos or up to 75 hours of video.
The Apple people also added a coupon for you to download 30 minutes of U2 video footage from iTunes.
Sharp introduces the MP-B200 and MP-B300 thin mp3 players with miniSD card slot.
The Sharp MP-B200 has 512MB and the Sharp MP-B300 features 1GB of internal memory that can be expanding with miniSD cards.
Sharp gave their new players a mirrored front and the players are available in four colors. Features of the new Sharp music players include direct audio encoding, FM transmitter, voice recorder, FM Tuner, WMA-DRM and MP3 file format support.
The measurements of the MP-B200 and MP-B300 are 49×87.6×8.9mm. The Apple iPod nano is only 6.8mm thick.
More details in this Sharp press-release (Japanese).
Via: I4U News
This is one of those must-have-devices, made for the music lovers like me, whose wanted to create a special mood, depending on the music we heard.
MobiNote Hipper 100 is a egg shaped Audio Box and speaker system that creates illumination effects based on the music rhythm it plays. This sound system supports MP3 and WMA sound files and can be attached to any USB player or any other USB storage devices such Flash drives.
The speakers function can also be connected to a regular CD player via an audio line-in connector. Also MobiNote Hiper 100 can be connected via Audio line-out to other audio devices.
MobiNote is manufactured in Taiwan, and its price is close to $69
More info at MobiNote
Microsoft and Toshiba announced the rather highly anticipated Gigabeat S at the CES 2006. Spring was giving as release date. Dap Review runs a story about the giving release date shifting from March 27th to now May 31st.
Features
Compact dimensions with up to 60 gigabytes (GB) of storage space
FM radio tuner
Extended battery life (12 hours of audio and up to 2.5 hours of video)
Familiar Windows Mobile software navigation
Compatible with popular media file formats, including .wma, .wmv, .wav, JPEG, and MP3
Media download from Media Center PCs
Recorded TV download from TiVo Series2
Audio integration with Xbox 360
Available in Metallic Blue, Piano Black, and Piano White
Specifications
Display: 2.4″ QVGA (320 x 240) LCD screen
Storage: 30 GB or 60 GB hard drive
Battery hours: 12 of audio/2.5 of video
MPU: Freescale i.MX
System requirements: Microsoft Windows Media Player 10
Succeeding last year’s Mega Player 521, MSI’s Mega Player 540 digital audio / video player is housed in a white case, has a 4GB HDD, and even sports a solar cell built onto the back the of the device to power the player and recharge its battery. Providing a balance between ease of use and functionality.
Some of the specs: play MP3, WMA, WMA with DRM audio files or M-JPEG video files, show JPEG graphic files, listen to the FM radio broadcasts via the built in FM tuner and record voice.
Source: Bios Magazine
Both an MP3 player and cell phone, the Samsung SPH-S4300 can store up to 250 songs with its 1GB flash memory. This svelte phone boasts a brilliant 262k color TFT display, 1.3-megapixel camera, FM tuner, and video player. It measures 86 x 49 x 21 mm and features a unique flick & swing design. No word yet on pricing and availability.
Source: TechEblog
A good friend of ours just sent me this…
A simply perfect portable multimedia player by Cowon America
supporting 7 media formats including MPEG4!
If your own music is not enough for you it can record from its integrated FM radio as well as from
line-in and voice.
To maximixe the the experience , it has a lyric reader and you can also you can read .txt text files
while listening to music.
And how about video? Check this out:
160 x 128 dot, 260,000 color TFT-LCD.(No comments)
Storage? You choose: 256MB , 1GB or Black colored 2GB.
Definetely a MUST-HAVE for those who like portable media
Some other data
Long Playback Time : Up to 20 hours playback (built in power battery)
Multi language
Enhanced Integrated Navigator and file manager, and many more.
Thank you Molly Chan for the information
Here is another bid to capture the much younger mp3 player
market and Disney fans alike. Creative will be releasing these Disney versions of their flash based Neeon and Nano. The portable MP3 players will come in 256MB, 512MB, as well as 1GB capacities. Your kids (or kids at heart) will be unhappy to hear that for now this is a Japan only release.
Source: Anythingbutipod.com
Preorder the Samsung YP-F2 Today!!!!
At Cebit2006 Samsung introduced the new Samsung YP-F2
The release is expected in April. There will be introduced two versions Black and White. The approximate price in Europe will be $105, $140 and $227 depending on memory size 512 MB, 1 GB or 2 GB respectively. This year we expect the release of the YP-F2R player equipped with an FM-tuner.
Preorder the Samsung YP-F2 Today!!!!
Source: Mobile Review
