Tag: Portable Media Player
REVIEW: Finis Neptune SwiMP3 player
This latest generation underwater MP3 player is Finis' first to feature a separate component housing the electronics. Will having to strap this to your goggles in addition to the two ear-pieces make it much more difficult to use? Read our full review to find out!
Creative to roll out art-inspired ZEN Mozaic media players
Elegance, simplicity, functionality, subtlety. These are words that you might use to describe a certainly overwhelming popular portable music player. That poses a problem for rival manufacturers who now have to slash a few of those adjectives off their list or risk just being complete clones.
Creative has the spirit though, it’s eschewed elegance and subtlety in favour of a new bold, tiled design obviously inspired either by the Dorchester Roman town house or the sight of a chess board falling into a Battenberg cake mix. Creative wouldn’t be the first though.
Philips announces their GoGear SA52 PMP with 4GB capacity
Apologies, this is turning into a Philips-themed day!
The company has just announced the GoGear SA52 PMP, which plays MP3, WMA and AAC music files, along with WMV video. With 4GB of storage and a 2.8″ QVGA LCD display, it also features some controversial audio ‘upscaling’, where the Digital Signal Processor adds ‘quality’ to the compressed audio tracks.
I’m always hesitant to recommend products that enhance…
Polaroid wants a slice of Archos' pie, with their MPU-43315 PMP
Polaroid isn’t exactly renowned for its PMPs, but this 60GB MPU-43315 player looks set to give Archos a run for its money. Maybe.
With specs including a 4.3″ LCD screen, a lithium ion battery that’ll give you four hours of video playback and 16 of audio, plus the old favourites like WMV, MPEG4, MP3, WMA and WAV playback. There’s apparently…
CES 2008: iriver no longer satisfied with MP3 market, UNIT2 to take on your whole living room instead
Games consoles, TVs, media centrer PCs – they all have one thing in common. They want TOTAL DOMINANCE of your lounging space. Well so does iriver and it will soon be using its UNIT2 to get it. It’s calling…
Shiny Video Review: Archos 105 media player
Zara, queen of the Archos PMPs, checks out one of their latest models, the 105. Can its super-slim aesthetics win…
Archos 605 special edition Charlie Chaplin PMP to come pre-loaded with 10 films
Plenty of Archos-shaped news seeping out of the pus-ridden internet sore, and if that analogy doesn’t sit well with the French PMP company, then perhaps the gushing accolades the Charlie Chaplin edition model is receiving on the interwebs will compensate.
The 605…
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…
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.
