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iMON HD Mobile: mysterious ‘portable media center’

Chris Davies, May 15th 2008 Discuss [0]

Amex Digital, who make a variety of home entertainment and HTPC kit, have just announced this, the iMON HD Mobile. Billed as a portable media center, it seemingly comprises a VFD display and IR receiver (with bundled remote) that can control all manner of media software. It'll also display email, news and weather information. Read The Full Story

Gigabyte M700 IPTV UMPC with digital tuner base-station

Chris Davies, May 15th 2008 Discuss [0]

With the array of Eee-style budget notebooks clamouring to play the role of your companion PC, Microsoft's UMPC format is being forced to think outside of its traditional box to score sales. Gigabyte have stepped up with the M700; while it may look like a typical 7-inch touchscreen slate, in actual fact it's running VIA's 1.2Ghz processor with the new VX800 chipset (with Chrome 9 graphics and video decoding hardware) and is part of the company's latest IPTV push. The M700 is in actual fact a mobile media center, complete with a dock that packs a digital TV tuner and IPTV streamer. Check out the video overview of the Gigabyte M700 after the cut Read The Full Story

Creative MuVo T200 PMP storage doubled to 4GB

Chris Davies, May 13th 2008 Discuss [1]

Creative has taken time out from licking its class-action wounds to stuff a few more gigabytes into their Shuffle-rival, the MuVo T200. The PMP, which previously had only been available with 2GB, will now come in a 4GB version. Unlike Apple's entry-level MP3 player, the T200 has a compact 128 x 32 pixels 65k color display. Read The Full Story

BEBOOK eBook reader

Chris Davies, May 9th 2008 Discuss [18]

Netherlands company Endless Ideas have released a fresh eBook, the BEBOOK. Seemingly a rebrand of the Chinese Hanlin V3, the device uses a 6-inch 600 x 800 e-paper display and is capable of reading .doc, .txt, .pdf, .jpg, .htm and .rtf files. Onboard storage is 512MB, expandable via SD card, and file transfer is courtesy of a USB 1.1 connector. The company claims to be working on Mobipocket support. Read The Full Story

iLiad ‘Book Edition’ e-book reader launched

Chris Davies, May 7th 2008 Discuss [0]

E-book manufacturer iRex have announced [pdf link] a new, cheaper version of their iLiad reader. The "Book Edition" drops the original's WiFi b/g and gains a silver casing, while the price also drops by €150 to €499 ($768). It comes pre-loaded with fifty classic novels and has the same touchscreen for notetaking. Read The Full Story

Yoto M300 WQVGA PMP reviewed

Chris Davies, May 5th 2008 Discuss [0]

Chinese site iMP3 have been playing with Yoto's M300, and if you're unimpressed with Apple's PMP range (and willing to import or perhaps take a trip to China) then the widescreen media player could tick quite a few of your boxes. For a start, there's its codec support list: direct support for RM, FLV, RMVB, AVI, mp3, wmv, APE, FLAC and more. Then there's the 3-inch, 400 x 240 touchscreen display, and the microSD storage. Read The Full Story

Samsung YP-S2 1GB Shuffle-rival

Chris Davies, Apr 23rd 2008 Discuss [1]

Samsung's latest music-only portable media player gets off to a good start by virtue of not being an iPod clone; in fact, the pebble-like YP-S2 is really more of a shiny audio nugget. Of course, you could say that instead they've looked to Sony's DAP range for their inspiration. Available in five colors, the YP-S2 has 1GB of non-expandable storage and saves space by virtue of a removable USB plug that clicks into the 3.5mm headphone socket when needed. Read The Full Story

Prestigio Data Safe II – it looks pretty, but how does it work?

James Allan Brady, Mar 21st 2008 Discuss [0]

Its an external hard drive that is covered in leather. That means that no one that is a card carrying member of PETA or any Vegan organizations are going to be carrying one. Read The Full Story

CES 2008: Emtrace Technologies credit-card sized Widget display

Chris Davies, Jan 6th 2008 Discuss [0]

Emtrace Technologies were showing off their credit-card sized widget viewer, Photoskins, at CES Unveiled, and has won a CES Best of Innovations award for the ultra-compact real-time media display. A mere 4.7mm thick and made from glossy black ABS plastic and aluminium with a 2.5-inch LCD TFT screen, it can display photos downloaded from a variety of online media sites such as Flickr and Picasa. Read The Full Story

Slingbox Pro HD to stream 1080i video come August

Chris Davies, Jan 4th 2008 Discuss [0]

Poor Gizmodo - they managed to get their hands on one of Slingbox's new Pro HD media shifters, but didn't get to actually plug it in and watch the high-def 1080i streamed video in action. Still, they've got some nice photos of the familiar arch shape, and the bristling input/output panel at the rear, and were able to tell us that the black casing looks better than earlier models. Read The Full Story

X-Lay portable media player from SAFA is tiny but packing

Christina Crouch, Dec 31st 2007 Discuss [0]

Why is that we want our TV’s to be huge and we want portable media players to be so tiny you have to squint to see them? It’s one of the great mysteries of the human race. In any case, there is yet another portable player to take into consideration for you teeny tiny needs. Read The Full Story

iStation U43 PMP is amazing

James Allan Brady, Dec 3rd 2007 Discuss [1]

Why is it that the companies from far away lands that no one has ever heard of are the people releasing the PMPs that could actually give the iPod a run for its money? Why can’t Microsoft, a multi-billion dollar company come up with something that a company in Korea with an operating budget likely in the millions can come up with? Read The Full Story