Creative has been plugging away with its line of Zen PMPs for a while now and has made its latest creation official. The new Zen X-Fi 2 has a big 3-inch touch screen and packs in X-Fi technology for better sound. Creative will offer the PMP in 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB capacities.
Samsung has announced today the launch of a brand new Personal Music Player (PMP), one that they are boasting is the slimmest and lightest on the market. Sure, that might not be the greatest thing to preach, especially considering usability and interface are paramount when utilizing any kind of personal media, but at least they have something. It’s not too bad to look at either, especially if you’re a fan of gingerbread cookie men. No, seriously.
Just as expected, the invitation to Apple’s iPod event on September 9th has dropped into the SlashGear inbox, and that means we’re off to San Francisco to live-blog the whole thing. Already a tradition on the Apple calendar, the September music-themed event is the chance for the Cupertino company to show off their latest advances in the segment-dominating PMPs, and this time we’re expecting camera functionality to join the party.
Samsung has unveiled a new multimedia player called the R1 that boasts some nice specifications that media fans will appreciate. The R1 is hailed as the slimmest and lightest multimedia player around that is compatible with DivX.
Details of a Qualcomm mobile digital TV device have leaked, courtesy of gdgt, complete with a conceptual render of what the iPhone-sized handheld may look like. The Qualcomm FLO TV PTV (Personal Television) uses the company’s terrestrial digital TV service, a broadcast system rather than streaming over 3G.
Sony have officially whipped the wraps off of their latest two Walkman PMP models, the stereo-speaker-packing S-Series that you can see here, and the entry-level E-Series shown after the cut. The S-Series – first spotted earlier this month – has a 2.4-inch QVGA LCD display supporting 30fps video playback, together with offering up to 17hrs of audio playback via the speakers.
The Android MID mystery continues, with more images of the compact touchscreen slate showing up at various forums. We’re now up to our third batch of leaked images – the first and second batches appeared over the past week or so – with the device being pegged as anything from Apple’s upcoming tablet (highly unlikely) to Arcos’ much-talked-about MID, but with no official identity forthcoming at least the source of the pictures has seemingly been confirmed.
Live images of Archos’ latest Vision PMP range have appeared, courtesy of Archos Lounge, and they go some way to proving the old adage that clever angles can make an ugly device attractive. Our main issue is with the Archos 2 Vision, shown here on the right, which in the press shots looked slick and clean but in the plastic, well, have overly-protruding buttons and seem a tad bland.
mintpass’ palm-sized mintpad PMP and internet browser has gone on sale through Amazon at $169.99, courtesy of specialist importer JetAudio. The availability follows a brief period of pre-sales directly from mintpass themselves, and – at least according to a statement made to Pocketables – seems to indicate that the company have partnered with JetAudio for their US distribution.
Images purporting to be of the upcoming third-generation iPod touch have been spotted in the world, believed to be retrieved by a recycler of Apple tech after the company threw a prototype away. Tipped as a “durability test” handset – hence the damage – the iPod touch 3G shows a camera lens mounted in the top middle of the rear panel, which certainly corroborates with leaked case designs we’ve seen before.
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