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Apple sells 3m iPod touch 5G and iPod nano 7G

, Oct 23rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Apple has sold three million of its new iPod touch 5th gen and iPod nano 7th gen media players since they went on sale, the company has confirmed. Announced alongside the iPhone 5 back in September, the two new iPods are best-sellers, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed. Read The Full Story

5th-gen iPod touch now shipping

, Oct 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

Apple has begun shipping the new iPod touch, with preorder customers receiving shipping notification emails for the 5th-gen media player. Thrown up for sale last month, after Apple revealed the new model - with its larger, 5-inch display - alongside the iPhone 5, the new iPod touch has a 5-megapixel camera and front-facing iSight camera, along with a new brushed-metal chassis available in multiple colors. Read The Full Story

Neil Young Pono player revealed to oust iPods for audiophiles

, Sep 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Neil Young might not be the first person you'd think of to reinvent the iPod, but the famous musician has been working on an alternative - promising top-notch sound - for some time now, and it's finally been shown in the wild. Pono, demonstrated by Young himself on The Late Show with David Letterman, Rolling Stone reports, isn't just a single media player but an ecosystem of a download store, the PMPs to play those purchases, and a special digital-to-analog conversion technology which promises studio-quality audio. Read The Full Story

7th-gen iPod nano Hands-on

, Sep 12th 2012 Discuss [0]

Apple’s mid-range iPod, the iPod nano, has gone through the most varied evolutionary changes of all the Cupertino media devices. In its 7th-generation, its settled on a combination of the previous model’s touch and earlier versions’ bigger screens, throwing in some slick anodized aluminum and highly polished usability too. Read on for our first impressions!

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5th-gen iPod touch Hands-on

, Sep 12th 2012 Discuss [0]

In its fifth generation, the iPod touch gets even closer to the iPhone, while still carving out its own multimedia niche. Borrowing the new 4-inch Retina display but slotting it into a mere 88g, 6.1mm thick chassis, it’s clear that doing away with the cellular radio has (among other disparities) made for an altogether more comprehensive and capable device. Certainly not one to fall into the iPhone 5′s shadow; read on for our first impressions!

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iPod touch to pack iPhone 5 Retina but slower chip tip insiders

, Sep 11th 2012 Discuss [0]

Apple's iPhone 5 event will share stage time with a new range of iPods, with further details on the updated PMPs slipping out in advance of the big unveil. A refresh to the iPod touch was already expected, as well as capacity changes to other iPod models, with the most obvious difference being a 1136 x 640 Retina Display as per the iPhone 5. Read The Full Story

Samsung Galaxy Player 5.8 ramps iPod rivalry to 5.8-inches

, Aug 27th 2012 Discuss [7]

Samsung's iPod touch-rivaling media player range has sprouted an even bigger model, with the Galaxy Player 5.8 managing to make even the Galaxy Note look small. The 5.8-inch PMP has a 960 x 540 qHD resolution LCD touchscreen in a chassis that looks like an oversized Galaxy S III with the twin speaker grills of the Galaxy Note 10.1. Read The Full Story

Samsung Galaxy Player 5.8 photo and specs leak

, Aug 20th 2012 Discuss [12]

Samsung isn’t just planning a sequel to the Galaxy Note, with a leak suggesting that the company is also planning on refreshing its Galaxy Player devices, PMPs running Android with WiFi connectivity. According to a picture and information handed to SamMobile, Samsung is planning a huge 5.8-inch screen for its next Galaxy Player device, bringing with it some mid-range specs in the process. Read The Full Story

Xbox father blames Zune failure on blinkered music industry

, May 14th 2012 Discuss [6]

Ex-Microsoft exec and shepherd of both Xbox and Zune, Robbie Bach, has admitted that the Zune PMP was a cavalcade of mistakes, though argues his entertainment division team did try to replicate its successful gaming strategy with its iPod rival. Speaking at a Northwest Entrepreneur Network event in Seattle, Geekwire reports, Bach described the Zune project as "probably universally viewed as less of a success" than Xbox, though denied that either had succeeded or failed because they were part of the Microsoft behemoth. Read The Full Story

Samsung debuts Galaxy Player 70 Plus

, Mar 5th 2012 Discuss [1]

Samsung has unveiled its latest media player, and the device is called the Galaxy Player 70 Plus. The media player will be launching today in Korea. The player has a five-inch screen and uses a 1 GHz dual-core processor. This is one big PMP and a screen this large should make watching video content on the go very comfortable and enjoyable. Read The Full Story

Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 4.2: Yet another micro-niche filled

, Feb 27th 2012 Discuss [4]

If the Galaxy Note 10.1 is too large and stylus-obsessed for you, Samsung has another new tablet-phone that might tickle your fancy, the Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 4.2. As the name suggests, it's a 4.2-inch Android device with a WVGA IPS LCD display, plus a 2-megapixel camera on the back and a front-facing VGA camera. Read The Full Story

Do You Still Need An iPod?

, Feb 2nd 2012 Discuss [56]

When Apple announced its fiscal first quarter earnings last week, which encompassed the three months ended December 2011, much of the attention went to the company’s exceedingly strong iPhone and iPad sales. There was also a lot of talk about its huge profit and exploding cash reserves.

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