Articles about Portable Gadgets’

Sep 25, 2008

Lyra Slider: The first PMP to use sliding technology

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Lyra Slider PMP

Mobile phones have been using the concept of sliding for a long time but it has never caught on in the portable media player arena before. Well this is about to change with the new Lyra Slider, a basic PMP which has used the concept of a sliding front to shrink in size without having [...]




Sep 19, 2008

New PMP with touchscreen that pushes back

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 ORACOM W30 PMP

The Korean company ORACOM announced this little treasure and our ears picked up. The specifications of this new PMP, the W30, are not that outstanding but it does have one saving grace: haptic interface that is selling for a reasonable price of $180.
A haptic interface tries to simulate pressing a real button when you press [...]




Aug 31, 2008

Sony have upped the bar

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Sony Portable Media Player

I thought the Creative Zen Mozaic was bad enough but Sony have managed to raise the level of ugly with their PMX-U55 personal media player. I am not sure which bit of the above image I dislike the most, the picture of the dog or the media player itself. I just hope that the device [...]




Aug 12, 2008

Mumu iPearl: a touch of pink from RAmos

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Mumu iPearl by RAmos

The Mumu iPearl by RAmos is, as you might guess, aimed at the female half of the word. It is not often that you get a device designed from scratch to be for ladies, the companies normally just dunk a current player in pink paint a declare it fit for a female.
RAmos is trying very [...]




Aug 5, 2008

PMX-M89 16GB: new PMP from Sony that helps you find yourself

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Sony PMX-M89

This little beauty is the new Sony PMX-M89 with a 4.3-inch touchscreen and 16GB of storage. Sony is trying to stake their claim to the Chinese market with their PMX series of personal media players. The PMX series is on the higher end of the Chinese market; at 2,260 Yuan (USD $331) it is a [...]




Jul 24, 2008

Zen Mozaic: art or just plain ugly?

Posted by Daniel in Audio, Creative, Portable Gadgets 1 comment
Zen Mozaic

The new Creative ZEN Mozaic portable media player for video, music and photos has just been released. Its design is based on the awe inspiring mosaic art of ancient Greece, but somehow Creative has missed the point. The new ZEN Mozaic, with its 1.8-inch LCD colour screen, weighs only 43g but comes in 79.5mm x [...]




Jul 18, 2008

Viliv release X70 series: 7-inch PMP

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Villiv PMP X70 series

The 7-inch WVGA TFT-LCD screened monster has been released in the Korea market. The Viliv X70 series of media players come in a four flavours. All have the 7″ screen with 800×480 resolution and a detachable battery that will last for 9.5 hours of continuous play.
Read on for more information.




Jul 18, 2008

mi Shake media player, interact in a new way

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mi Shake

The mi Shake is yet another new touch screen based media player, but this one comes with a difference in its operation and usability due to the Shocktronix motion sensor. Read on to find out more about the mi Shake.




Jul 16, 2008

Budget PMP from TrekStor

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The German based company, TrekStor is well known for producing high quality portable media players. They have recently released an addition to their PMP range: i.Beat Move. This player will come as a refreshing change for all you who see these new devices coming out with WiFi, Bluetooth, touch screens and anything else they can [...]




Jul 16, 2008

Huge screened Ainol V3000 Leaked

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Ainol V3000

Sick and tired of tiny screens and rubbish resolutions like those found on the iPod touch with a mere 3.5-inch screen and a measly 480-by-320-pixel resolution? Ainol has come to the rescue with what MP4nation are calling a killer PMP. The Ainol V3000 is set to kick all other PMPs down the stairs and laugh [...]