Archive for the 'MP3 players' Category

Powered By Women

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

Watching a news segment the other day - claimed women make up a good percentage (sorry can’t remember the number) of technology consumers. Note the emphasis is on consumers not buyers. As a technology buff and ahem all woman I’m not quite sure what to make of this. Yes I’m happy more women are [...]

The world’s best podcasting tool

Sunday, May 29th, 2005

If you’re rocking the podcasting thing, or just want some stonking good sound (not to mention blow-your-eardrums-out loud) offa MP3 player, you really shouldn’t see anything other than the iRiver 700/900 series, period.

iRiver iFP-795 (512MB), current Web lowest $108.00
iRiver iFP-799 (1GB), current Web lowest $147.00
iRiver iFP-995 (512MB) with color display, current Web lowest $125.00 after [...]

Archos GMini 220 MP3 player

Monday, February 14th, 2005

When it boils down to to multimedia player longevity and reliability in the market, the name Archos comes into mind. Take a look at the GMini 220 from this company:
20 gigs on tap, MP3-recording capability, FM radio/recording, 2.5″ LCD grayscale screen and JPEG viewing - that’s a lot of bang for the buck. Buy.com has [...]

The unexpected Zen Micro Photo

Saturday, January 15th, 2005

Yup; this flew right by us, just as engadget expects. Creative really means business in taking its fight to Apple - and announced the photo-displaying version of its tight Zen Micro, the Zen Micro Photo at the recently-concluded CES exhibition in Las Vegas. It also helps that it has won another “Best Of CES” award [...]

Affordable 256MB MP3 players, anyone?

Monday, December 13th, 2004

The last time we hung around Wal-Mart, we thought their ilo 256 MB Digital Audio MP3 Player was pretty spiffy with a price tag of only $79.72. But little did we know that this part of the market - flash-based USB drives with MP3 playing capability - is pretty hot. (Edit: Maybe because we were [...]

Creative comes up with a stunner

Saturday, October 30th, 2004

The Creative Zen Micro 5GB MP3 player bagged an award in a digital products tradeshow, and had the major media gushing over it … probably due to the huge choice of colors available:

Apple iPod Photo in store now

Tuesday, October 26th, 2004

A bit of a surprise even for iPodders, Apple launched its iPod Photo early today. It was initially expected to debut early-2005.
Looking similar to the regular iPod, it comes with a 65k TFT LCD screen that displays photos, album art, and is slightly thicker and heavier - presumably to accomodate a bigger battery which will [...]

Creative sale in upcoming Malaysian PC fair

Thursday, July 22nd, 2004

Creative has set up a special promotion page of its products for the upcoming PC Fair II in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Among some of the stuff up for grabs at lowered prices are:

NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra 60GB, RM1,288.00 (regularly RM1,839.00)
NOMAD MuVo² 4GB, RM988.00 (regularly RM1,609.00)
Digital MP3 Player MX200 256MB with free Creative backphones model HQ-60, [...]

A MP3 add-on twist to portable storage

Thursday, July 22nd, 2004

It might seem strange to have us going on so much about PDA’s and handhelds … then have a totally different mobile gadget getting on here. But we couldn’t pass it up, because it essentially is mobile-tech - and this thing’s a nice twist to the current crop of removable-storage MP3 players.

SanDisk’s Cruzer Micro MP3 [...]

iPod follower with a reasonable pricetag

Monday, July 5th, 2004

Sure; Apple’s iPod and iPod mini are currently the most desirable portable MP3 players, but that would also mean there will be more competitors to claim a share of the pie. Creative is by no means a slacker in its products and has come up with the Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra to lend their assault [...]