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Cowon iAudio 9 gets the teardown treatment

Chris Davies, Dec 4th 2009 Discuss [0]

We can't say we've exactly been over-anxious to see what's inside Cowon's iAudio 9 PMP, but nor will we turn our noses up at a glance inside the slender mediaplayer's casing. iMP3 bravely sacrificed a box-fresh iAudio 9 for a teardown, and it's a pretty impressive shrinking down of technology. Read The Full Story

Zune HD purple and magenta versions arrive

Chris Davies, Dec 2nd 2009 Discuss [0]

Zune Originals promised us more color choices for Microsoft's Zune HD PMP, and as expected the catalog has been updated with new magenta and purple versions. The colors - which join the original black, silver, blue, red and green models - are part of Microsoft's Zune HD holiday promotion, and the company is also offering free message engraving. Read The Full Story

Zune HD getting colorful update December 1st

Chris Davies, Nov 30th 2009 Discuss [0]

Up until now the colorful part of the Zune HD has been its striking OLED display; if you wanted any color in your Microsoft PMP then you'd have to resort to a third-party skin or case. That's set to change tomorrow, however, according to the official Zune store, which has tipped three new colors - Magenta, Red and Purple - as arriving on December 1st. Read The Full Story

Sony Walkman X firmware update v1.10 boosts browser

Chris Davies, Nov 27th 2009 Discuss [1]

Sony have outed a new firmware release for their Walkman X PMP, and the headline feature is an improved browsing experience. The new software tweaks the NetFront browser into rendering pages faster, maintaining layouts more like what you'd see on a desktop, and boosting scrolling speeds. Read The Full Story

Apple iPod touch with camera coming this Spring?

Chris Davies, Nov 23rd 2009 Discuss [0]

The firestorm of speculation earlier this year regarding whether Apple would push a camera-toting iPod touch out of the door at their now-traditional September music event, turned out to be a damp squib; the new iPod touch was faster and more capacious than its predecessor, but had no camera functionality (despite Apple's engineers leaving space inside for one). Now, the Examiner are claiming to have heard from "an insider source" that the camera-equipped iPod touch will in fact land this spring. Read The Full Story

iPod shuffle headset concept by Isamu Sanada

Chris Davies, Nov 23rd 2009 Discuss [1]

Remember Apple's iPod Bluetooth headset patent application, which polarized opinion back at the end of October? That seems to have at least partially inspired SlashGear's Apple concept merchant of choice, Isamu Sanada, who has come up with a clever iPod shuffle design that can be attached to both regular earbuds and a flexible headset. Read The Full Story

Archos 5 Internet Tablet gets firmware update; Mini Dock demo [Video]

Chris Davies, Nov 17th 2009 Discuss [0]

It's been a rainstorm of Archos 5 Internet Tablet newness over at UMPC Portal today, with our friend Steve Paine taking delivery not only of the Archos 5 Mini Dock but the latest firmware which has also released today, v1.3.07. Together they've taken the Android-based Archos 5 even closer into MID status: USB host support means that you can plug a full-sized keyboard and mouse into the Mini Dock's USB port, while the new firmware now supports full-screen YouTube HD playback together with outputting that content, via HDMI, onto your TV. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Cowon iAudio 9 PMP gets unboxed

Chris Davies, Nov 17th 2009 Discuss [0]

Perhaps it's a 2009 thing and, come the new year, packaging will won't enthral us so, but for now there's a great deal of geeky appeal in how manufacturers choose to present their tech. Cowon have generally been associated more with audio performance than they have with style, but it looks like some of the "shape up" message is getting through: DAP Review have just taken delivery of the iAudio 9 PMP, and as their unboxing photoset shows there's obviously been a lot of thought put into how it's packaged. Read The Full Story

Cowon W2 MID with Atom CPU revealed by Bluetooth SIG

Chris Davies, Nov 2nd 2009 Discuss [0]

Gadgets leaked by text are far less exciting than blurry, hurriedly-snapped photos, but we won't turn up our noses at a preview no matter the method. It now appears that Cowon have a touchscreen MID in the works, the Cowon W2, according to a test page at the Bluetooth SIG, though specifications are still scant. Read The Full Story

Cowon iAudio 9 PMP gets priced & dated

Chris Davies, Oct 26th 2009 Discuss [0]

Cowon's iAudio 9 PMP now has a release date and pricing, after the slimline media player was first outed at the start of October. 8.9mm thick, the iAudio 9 will be available in 8GB and 16GB configurations, and land in Japan at least in the middle of November 2009. Read The Full Story

Cube H600HDMI PMP: 6.99mm thick and huge codec support

Chris Davies, Oct 20th 2009 Discuss [0]

There's slim, and then there's wafer-thin-mint skinny, and it's obviously the latter that Cube's new H600HDMI PMP is aspiring to. The 5-inch mediaplayer has an 800 x 480 resolution display, can cope with decoding up to 768p/30Mb media and is capable of outputting 720p/1080i video via its HDMI port, but most strikingly it's just 6.99mm thick. Read The Full Story