Articles for the Topic: 'Portable Audio Players'
Samsung YP-D1 MP3 Player Cum Digital Camera
Samsung has launched a new MP3 player, YP-D1, in India which has 1.8-inch color display and an integrated 2 megapixel digital camera capable of high-quality still and video recording.
The high-capacity flash memory based Samsung YP-D1 gadget has a quality MP3 digital audio player, a built-in digital camera, MPEG4 playback, and photo and text viewing capabilities.
The compact Samsung YP-D1 MP3 Player is equipped with 1.8 inch 260K color TFT-LCD screen and is available in 1GB and 2GB versions. Its integrated 2 megapixel digital camera allows up to 4X digital zoom.
The Samsung YP-D1 features Samsung’s Digital Natural Sound engine and it supports JPEG, MP3, OGG, WMA, ASF and MPEG4 video playback. The built-in speaker lets the unit double as a mini-radio, allowing users to listen to music while playing back pictures.
MSI P610 Digital MP3 Player
MSI has launched a new lightweight and stylish digital MP3 Players, the P610, featuring flash based storage space and is equipped with JPEG photo playback and a FM radio.
Weighing under 45 grams and measuring 9 cm x 4 cm, the MSI P610 portable digital MP3 player is lighter than the total weight of two AAA batteries. Besides playing MP3 music (MP3, WMA, WMA DRM formats), as well as video in M-JPEG .MOV or .AVI formats and smaller 320×240 pixels video. The MSI P610 digital music player also allows viewing of JPG pictures on its 46mm (1.8-inch) TFT LCD screens with a resolution of 128×160 pixels.
MSI P610 MP3 player comes with flash memory with options ranging from 512-MB to maximum 2-GB storage space and also allows M-JPEG video playback. In addition, it sports a built-in FM radio tuner and comes with USB connectivity for easy data exchange.
Intex Launches Portable Digital MP3 Player Cum USB Drive
Intex Technologies has today introduced a new portable digital MP3 player in India which has 512-MB of storage space and comes with built-in FM radio. The tiny gadget also works as USB pen drive for data storage.
The ultraportable Intex portable MP3 digital audio player comes with 512-MB storage space and has excellent sound quality. The MP3 player also has an inbuilt microphone. The embeded systems menu allows control of the volume, play, forward, reverse, contrast, search, replay and repeat audio tracks using a single multi-purpose button. In addition the small gadget also has selectable graphic equaliser with many presets.
mobiBLU UltraSlim-2 Portable MP3 Player
mobiBLU UltraSlim-2 is new digital MP3, photo (JPEG) and Video player will soon be available in India that comes in choice of 1, 2, and 4-GB flash memory and packs a 1.5-inch OLED color screen with laser-etched control panel.
The new mobiBLU US2 (UltraSlim-2), seems to be positioned in direct competition to the iPod Nano and is infact few mm slimmer than iPod Nano MP3 player at about 1-cm. Like the RAZR, the control panel in this gadget is laser-etched with the body made of plastic and polished aluminum.
Measuring just 80 mm x 40 mm x 7 mm (height x width x thickness) the mobiBLU US2 features a 1.5-inch OLED colour screen, audio playing (including Layer 1/2/2.5 MP3/WMA/OGG/ASF music file formats), MPEG4 video support, JPEG photo files display, recording and SRS WoW audio processing.
mobiBLU DHH-200 Portable MP3, Photo And Video Player
mobiBLU DHH-200 is a cute little portable digital MP3, Photo (JPEG) and Video player now available in India which has massive 8-GB of internal hard disk drive and features built-in FM tuner.
Featuring a 1.8-inch 260,000 colors 160�128 TFT screen, the mobiBLU DHH-200 portable MP3 player supports Layer 1/2/2.5 MP3/WMA/OGG/ASF music file formats, JPEG media files, LDB format lyric display, and MPEG4 video files.
It provides 5 basic EQs (Normal, Rock, Jazz, Classic, Pop, Dance, R&B, Hiphop, Blues, Ballad, Techno) and also allow creation of customized equalization.
In addition, mobiBLU DHH-200 also has the ability to play and record FM Radio and Voice Recording plus Line in Features .
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/-
Asus J206 iPod Style Music Phone
Asus, the motherboard major has introduced, J206, a mobile phone which features full portable music playback including MP3/AAC/WAV music file format support.
Asus J206 is capable of 12 hours of playback time, has 60 MB of internal memory, and a microSD slot which allows up to 2 GB memory expansion for more music on the phone.
The Asus J206 seems to be so heavily inspired by iPod design that it has the iPod click-wheel interface almost copied, right down to the icons and placement.
The sensor under the touch pad detect heat from your hand and then the phone will determine the action. This type of the design is nice since it give you all the music player control you need. Plus it enables scrolling the music playlist simply by moving hand on the touch pad.
Asus J206 is of just about same size as that of Nokia N91 music phone and has slider phone design. With USB connectivity and a headphone jack built right in. Bundled with the phone is “Music Manager”, an iTunes like music syncing program, it looks like clear substitute of expensive iPod.
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.
Sony Ericsson W700 Walkman Mobile Phone
Sony Ericsson introduces W700 mobile phone in the series of Walkman phones.
The new W700 shares the same features as the W800i, with one exception of the new Titanium gold design 
and the memory which has dropped from 512 MB to 256 MB, which can be further upgraded up to 2 GB through slot card.
The pre-installed Disc2Phone communication software now allows the CD tracks be easily converted into MP3, AAC and WMA formats and get them upload to the phone with ease. The new Sony W700 mobile phone comes with high-quality Sony headsets and FM radio with RDS. Connectivity is achieved through Bluetooth, infrared and USB, and WAP for Intenrnet.
Finally, the new Sony W700 now offers a 2 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom, capable of video recording in MPEG-4 format.
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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