Tag: PMP
Shiny Video Review: the best Personal Media Players available
Zara takes a look at a range of PMPs and gives her opinion on what’s out there…
Is Dell planning to make a Wi-Fi personal media player?
Dell has announced plans to acquire Zing, the technology company that makes the platform for SanDisk’s Sansa Connect wireless music player. The obvious conclusion is that Dell is planning its own Wi-Fi PMP.
Shiny Video Review: Archos 704 Portable Media Player
Those new 704 PMPs from Archos that were announced a few weeks back? Well, we got on in to review for all our lovely readers, although tough luck trying to get it back off Zara – she’s obsessed with it…
Shearer V2000 PMP: iPhone in disguise?
OK, so the Shearer V2000 portable music player isn’t really much like the iPhone except in initial looks. It’s not a phone, for a start, though it does sport a 3-inch 16-million colour polysilicon screen encased in a brushed metal exterior. It’s not touch sensitive, so there are extra buttons at the base of the unit for controlling it.
For the acronym-happy, it supports RM/RMV8, AVI, and MPEG video support, plus MP3, WMA, APE, and FLAC audio files, plus JPEG, bitmap, and GIF image formats. It also has an FM radio tuner, LRC lyrics, and text to speech capability, plus built-in BBE and SRS sound enhancement.
2007 Tech Trends No. 10: Wi-Fi personal media players
Everything’s connected nowadays. Every gadget hooks up to your PC or Mac, you can connect digital cameras and mobile phones to your telly, and webcams work with your PS3 console. But what about wireless connectivity? I’ve already talked about Bluetooth music in this Tech Trends series, but Wi-Fi MP3 players are another important trend.
iRiver unveils W10 PMP with Wi-Fi and VoIP
iRiver is sticking everything bar the kitchen sink into its personal media players nowadays, and its new W10 PMP is no exception. There’s not much information on its specs, other than the fact that it supports VoIP and a location-based Wi-Fi technology called WPS.
The iRiver NV – a GPS-enabled TV/radio/MP3 superbox
Well this is aspirational. The iRiver NV pretty much does it all, and could replace everything you’ve ever spent too much money buying and subsequently leaving in a pub for the landlord to find and stick on Ebay.
Archos unveils three Generation 5 PMPs which play YouTube videos
Archos has unveiled its new line of personal media players, dubbed Generation 5. It includes three new PMPs, the 405, 605 and 705, which for the first time will support Flash-based video from YouTube and other online video-sharing sites.
Digital Cube's female-focused M43 iStation personal media player
It’s often assumed that the market for personal media players (PMPs) is dominated by blokes. Over in South Korea, Digital Cube is aiming to change that with its new device. The M43 iStation sounds like a motorway cafe that lets you charge up your iPod, but is in fact a PMP aimed at 20-30 year-old women.
