New Sony’s Walkman series player
Sony has just showed its new Walkman series player. Sony Walkman NWZ-A860 is made in aluminum body and is equipped with 2.8-inch OLED capacitive touchscreen, Bluetooth, FM radio, 3.5mm headphones jack, MicroSD external memory card slot. The dimensions are 97х52х9.3mm, the weight is 80g. There are 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions. The price of Sony Walkman NWZ-A860 with 16GB internal storage is $213.
Creative ZEN Style M300 MP3 player
Singaporean Creative company has just showed its new MP3 player. The design of Creative ZEN Style M300 resembles of the design of the latest generation of iPod nano. It is a small device measuring 55х44х12mm, equipped with 1.45-inch display with 128x128px resolution. The display is not a touchscreen but there is control touch panel around it. This player also has Bluetooth, FM radio, microphone, and MicroSD external memory card slot. The price of Creative ZEN Style M300 with 4Gb internal storage costs $50, 8GB version costs $70, the price of 16GB version is $90.
Philips GoGear Muse 3 media player
This device represents the third generation of Philips’s media players. Philips GoGear Muse 3 will be available in three versions – 8GB, 16GB and 32GB ones. The list of specs also include 3.2-inch capacitive touch screen with 480x320px resolution, MicroSD external memory card slot (up to 32GB card are supported), FM radio with podcasts recording support, Bluetooth module. The battery of the device has 1100mAh capacity and provides about 5 hours of video or 24 hours of music playback. The dimensions are 113x11x59mm, the weight is 106g. Besides of such usual extensions as MP3, WAV and WMA this media player supports such lossless formats as FLAC and APE. Supported video formats are MPEG4, RMVB and WMV. The player will be …
Samsung announces Galaxy Player
Today Samsung announced its new portable media player. Samsung Galaxy Player (YP-GB1) features 4-inch Super Clear LCD capacitive touchscreen with 800×480px resolution, Google Android 2.2 Froyo operating system and SoundAlive technology support. In many respects this player is very close to another company’s device – Samsung Galaxy S. The main difference is that the YP-GB1 has no phone module and has 3.2MP camera while the Galaxy S features 5MP one. Samsung Galaxy Player is equipped with 1GHz processor, 512MB RAM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, GPS, microSD external memory card slot. The device is expected to become available in the first quarter of 2011.
Energy Sistem Color Book
Energy Sistem has just launched its new device that belongs to e-readers class. But in contrast to other e-books readers it has not E-ink display but 5-inch LCD touchscreen with 800x480px resolution. The list of other specifications includes MicroSD external memory card slot (up to 32GB), Wi-Fi, 3.5mm headphones jack, 1800mAh battery. The device supports many formats including HTMP, MP3, WMA and a ton more. Energy Sistem Color Book has been already available in Europe for EUR109,32.
Creative Zen Touch 2 Android PMP
Creative has just released its new portable media player – Zen Touch 2. It runs on Google Android 2.1 Éclair operating system and is equipped with 2MP camera, 8GB or 16GB internal storage, 3.2-inch screen with 480x320px resolution, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, mini USB port, 3.5mm headphones jack, microphone, MicroSD external memory card slot (up to 32GB). Creative Zen Touch 2 measures 120x60x13mm. The battery of this mobile device provides about 25 hours of music or 5 hour of video playback, Supported file extensions are MP3, AAC, WMA9, FLAC, OGG, ADPCM, MIDI, WAV, Audible, H.264, MPEG4, WMV9, AVI, JPG, BMP and PNG. Creative Zen Touch 2 has been already available in British Creative’s online store for £149.99 for …
ViewSonic MB-P702 hybrid device
Together with ViewPad 100 ViewSonic at IFA 2010 exhibition announced one more unusual device. ViewSonic MB-P702 doesn’t belong to tablet computer class and doesn’t run on Google Android operating system. Nevertheless it has some nice features. This device combines functions of portable media player and ebooks reader. It supports HD video (1080p) playback and wide range of media and docs extensions (docs – PDF, TXT, EPUB, CHM, HTML, PDB, UMD; audio – MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC Lossless; video – RM, RMVB, AVI, MOV, WMV, MKV, VOB and etc). Besides, the list of pre-installed apps includes image viewer and 256 games. As for technical specifications it is know that ViewSonic MB-P702 has 7 inch TFT touch screen with 800x480px resolution, MicroSD …
Philips GoGear Connect Android media player
According to some sources Philips will soon release its new line of media players – GoGear. The first device from this line is Philips GoGear Connect. Its main feature is that it runs on Google Android 2.1 operating system. This device is equipped with 3.2 inch touch screen with 480x320px resolution, 16 GB internal storage, GPS module, 3 Mp camera, MicroSD external memory card slot. The battery provides about 25 hour of music playback or 5 hour of video playback. The dimensions of this media player are 59x113x13mm, the weight is 128g.
Cowon V5W PMP
South Korean Cowon company has just announced its new portable media player. The main feature of Cowon V5W is Full HD (1920x1080px) video playback support. Besides this PMP runs in Windows CE 6.0 operating system, has Wi-Fi and web browser. Other specifications of this device include 4.8 inch touchscreen with 800x480px resolution, HDMI output, 16/32/64 GB internal storage, SD external memory card slot. Cowon V5W will become available next week. The pricing starts at $325.
Newsmy C66
This device is positioned as e-reader but it also has media player’s functions. It supports not only docs extensions (TXT, PDF, CHM, HTML, PDB, UMD, EPUB, HTM, JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF) but also media ones including AVI, MOV, WMV, MKV, VOB, MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC. Newsmy C66 has 6 inch colour touch screen with 800x480px resolution, 8Gb or 16GB internal storage, USB 2.0 port, MicroSD external memory card slot, 3.5mm headphones jack. Besides, Newsmy C66 supports HD video (1080p) playback. The price of this mobile device is only $150.
Onda VX560
This device combines feature of both media player and e-reader. It is equipped with 7 inch screen with 800x480px resolution, HDMI output, USB 2.0 port, 3.5mm headphones jack, Wi-Fi, 3 module. The list of supported media extensions includes MKV (H.264), AVI, MOV, FLV, MPG, VOB, DAT, TS. Supported docs formats are TXT, FB2, CHM, PDF, HTM, UMD and PDB. It is also notable that this device supports Full HD video (1080p) playback.
