Articles for the Topic: 'MP3 Players'
The iRiver U10 Portable Music And Video Player
The iRiver U10 is a ultra-portable multifunction music player
which supports MP3s, WMAs, ASF, OGG, JPG, TXT, Flash Lite 1.1, MPEG-4 SP video at 320×240 (QVGA) and include an equalizer with 10 presets with its MP3 music player.
iRiver U10 also features an FM tuner with recording, an alarm clock, a set of speaker and still photo viewer. The gadget is available in either 512-MB or 1-GB version and comes with excellent battery life.
Sleek, stylish and simple, iRivers U10 measures 2.7″ x 1.8″ x 0.6″ and weighing only 2.5 ounces and has 320×240 QVGA color screen.
Samsung YH-J70 Portable Media Player
Samsung’s YH-J70 portable media player comes with 1.8-inch hard drives and its function includes a line-in live recording, a built in FM tuner, video and photo playback as well as 18 equilizer preset modes.
Equipped with a 20-GB, 1.8-inch hard drive, the YH-J70 has little 1.8-inch TFT colour display with 262K colours. The digital player support MP3, Windows Media Audio, Ogg Vorbis, WAV and Audio ASF. The Samsung YH-J70 also has the ability to playback Mpeg4 movies and display jpeg pcitures.
Weighing just about 136 grams the Samsung YH-J70 measures 62 x 99.8 x 16.4 mm. The navigation menu can be accessed through the two-way joystick.
With a dedicated line-in port, the MP3 player allows recording off any standard audio device, such as a CD player or Hi-Fi audio system.
Philips GoGear Portable MP3 Player
Philips has recently unveiled yet another iPod nano look alike portable MP3 music player, the GoGear featuring 2-GB flash memory.
The new Philips GoGear with 2-GB flash memory (expendable) is suffiecient for storing upto 1000 standard bitrate songs or upto 5000 medium resolution pictures and it can play MP3s, WMAs, and WAV files.
The Philips GoGear also features an integrated FM radio tuner with 20 presets, ID3 tag and album art support, and direct voice/FM/line-in recording facility.
The Philip GoGear with 2-GB flash memory is likely to be available in India by Julu 2006 and is expected to be prices at about Rs. 9,000/-
HCL Would Market Apple iPods and desktops in India
HCL Infosystems, a IT company, entered into a non-exclusive strategic agreement with Apple Computers to distribute Apple desktop computers and its hot selling portable digital musical gadget iPod in India.
HCL said it would provide compelete sales and service support for distribution of Apple iPods in India which will be available in the price range of Rs 4,000 to Rs 23,000 through its wast network of 1,000 HCL retail outlets across the country.
As of now, almost all Apple iPods in India have been sold by unorganised retail and grey market mostly in big cities.
Ajai Chowdhury, CEO and Chairman of HCL Infosystems, said “HCL plans to sell and distribute Apple Desktop computers for Education, media and Entertainment purposes.”
HCL Infosystems had similar kind of strategic agreements TOSHIBA for selling laptops and notebook PCs in India through its large regional distribution network.
LG Lauches 8GB MFJM53 HDD MP3 Player
LG has launched a new 8GB MFJM53, a multifunction personal digital MP3 media player with FM radio.
The LG 8GB HDD MP3 player, meant to compete with the iPod, has several features that gives it the advantage.
The MFJM53 has an 8GB drive, a 1.77-inch 128×160 pixel (262,144-colour) touch-sensitive OLED screen, and measures a slight 10.1 x 4.8 x 1.4cm, weighing 88g.
In addition to playing MP3 files, the new LG MFJM53 can handle PlaysForSure WMA files, WAV, Ogg, MPEG-4 AVI, and JPEG files.
The tiny looking gadget also has an powerful FM radio, built-in microphone, and line-in port for audio recording, and company is boasting of up to about 30 hours of music playback or 4 hours of video on a built-in rechargable battry.
Motorola To Introduce O ROKR Bluetooth Eyewear
Motorola has plans to introduce the O ROKR, is being touted as Gen-Next Bluetooth eyewear from Oakley 
and Motorola that makes for wireless freedom, digital stereo fidelity, as also patented optical clarity.
Mororola O ROKR BlueTooth enabled eyewear that would enable wireless conversation and access to music through two integrated speakers.
The new O ROKR can stream music wirelessly from a compatible Bluetooth-enabled phone or a portable music player with an add-on Bluetooth adapter. You can use the button on O ROKR to pause the music or change songs, giving you control the music wirelessly.
iRiver Introduces D20 Dicple Alpha – a MP3 Player & Dictionary
iRiver recently launched iRiver D20, also called ‘Dicple’ a new portable device which is much more than just a digital music player.
Besides supporting the playback of various formats such as MP3, OGG and WMA, the slightly bulky, 370 gms device is also an e-book reader, a picture viewer, supporting GIF, BMP and JPG picture formats, an electronic organiser and a very advanced electronic dictionary.
The Dicple Alpha comes equipped with a decent sized QWERTY keyboard, a 4.3-inch colour TFT screen (a generous 4.3″ 262k color LCD TFT), a builtin FM radio, pronunciation assistant, microphone, 24 different dictionaries and a multiple memory card reader.
The idea is to have a little bit of entertainment when you are catching up on e-books or learning foreign languages. Pretty cool. It also supports a wide array of memory cards, including MMC, RS-MMC, SD and MMC-Plus.
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Seagate Introduces ST1.3 Series, 1-inch Photo Hard Drives
Seagate Technology last week announced the Seagate ST1.3 Series 12GB 1-inch photo hard drive especially targeted to pocket music player and digital photo storage market segments.
With a footprint 23% smaller, 50% extra storage capacity, and 30% less power consumption than Seagate’s current 1-inch photo hard drive – the latest Seagate ST1.3 Series offers a new optional drop sensor for increased robustness, delivering the features most requested by handheld device manufacturers.
The ST1.3 Series hard drive is Seagate’s second hard drive with perpendicular recording and the company’s first drive utilizing perpendicular technology in the 1-inch category.
Samsung launches world’s slimmest mobile phone
Samsung has introduced, as it claims, the world’s slimmest mobile phone, with an inbuilt MP3 player at the Sviaz ExpoComm 2006, technology show in Moscow on Wednesday.
The new wafer-thin mobile phone from Samsung, the SGH-X820, is just 6.9 mm thick and weighs only 66 grams, according to the company.
The SGH-X820 comes equipped with a 2 megapixel camera, a sophisticated MP3 player and Bluetooth.
The company claims that the Samsung `ultra-slim phone` has set a record in the mobile handset history by breaking the wall of seven-millimetre thickness for the first time in the world.
