Samsung has started selling their YP-S2 washed-river-pebble-esque MP3 player. $58 gets you 2GB. Light-weight at 13.6 grams. Feature comparison to iPod Shuffle, iriver Mplayer and the Zen Stone at this link.
Samsung Electronics’ design stone that ‘MP3 player market – News release, 2008 6 4
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PC World ranks the top 10 flash based MP3 players:
1. Creative ZEN (score: 83)
2. Creative Zen V Plus (80)
3. Apple iPod Nano (79)
4. Apple iPod Touch (79)
5. iRiver Clix Gen 2 (78)
6. SanDisk Sansa Connect (77)
7. Samsung YP-P2 (75)
8. Microsoft Zune 8GB Red (75)
9. SanDisk Sansa View (75)
10. SanDisk Sansa e280 (74)
The PCW evaluation consisted of 4 components: Pricing, Performance, Features and Design. While the Creative Zen lost out to the Apple Touch in the Design category, it handily beat out the 2 Apples in the significant Features category.
…the above is quite a different list from that out of CNet … guess the quest for the best goes on.
Top 10 MP3 Players (Flash-Based) – PC World, March 21, 2008
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News site CNMO.com has posted some photos of what they say is an updated second-generation M8 User Interface showing better EQ, song lyrics, album art and audio player controls. Others such as posters at fansite MeizuMe claim CNMO Spreads False Rumors Again, and assert the pics are old fakes.
…who knows, but we’re leaning towards faux because lyrics are difficult to do.
The specs for the real M8 phone continue to be GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900MHz, 802.11b/g, 3.4-inch 720×480 touch screen, Bluetooth 2.0, 3 megapixel auto-focus camera, 107×59x11.9 mm and 8GB/16GB. The main features are touted as: Phone, Music, Video, Camera, Internet Browser, TV Out, Auto Adjustment of Backlight Brightness and Display Direction.
second-generation interface iPhone Meizu M8 – CNMO, March 19, 08
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Akihabara uncrates the new E100 media player from iriver and provides a short review.
The E100 measures 92.8×47.8×11.3mm, weighs 59grams, has a 2.4-inch QVGA screen, capacity up to 8GB, FM radio and supports WMA/OGG/MP3/ASF/FLAC audio as well as MPEG4/WMV9/XVID video.
The reviewer appreciated the ‘excellent audio quality’, the click-on-the-screen D-Click interface and the overall design, but bemoaned the lack of Bluetooth and D-Click’s occasional lack of responsiveness.
…at about $198 the E100 is a lot cheaper than the somewhat similar Sony NW-A820 series…see here for a side-by-side comparison.
Review: Iriver E100 – Akihabaranews, 2008-03-11
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DAPreview reviews the Zune 80 portable media player from some co called Micosoft. Yes…that’s the 80 GB MP3 player which been available since November of 2007…about four months ago.
The fundamentals for the Zune 80 include a 3.2-inch 320×240 screen, support for MP3, WMA, WMA Pro/Lossless, AAC, WMV, MPEG-4 and H.264 formats, an FM radio and 802.11b/g…full specs are here.
So what did the reviewers think of the Zune 80? They liked it, giving the thing 90/100, calling it “one of the easiest and best players to use on the market” … high praise indeed.
Microsoft Zune 80 – DAPreview, March 9 2008
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Sony has announced the A820 family of Walkman video and MP3 players, with Bluetooth.
The top-of-the-line NWZ-A829 has 16GB of memory and goes for about $320. Battery life is good at 36 hours/audio & 9 hours/video.
The 320×240 QVGA screen has been enlarged to 2.4 inches to play video at up to 30 fps for AVC, MPEG-4 and AAC-LC formats. Supported audio formats are MP3, WMA, ATRAC, ATRAC Advanced Lossless, 1411kbps PCM, AAC and HE-AAC.
Dimensions are 93.9×51.0×9.3 mm, at 59 grams.
Sony Unveils Noise Canceling and Bluetooth Walkman Video MP3 Players – Sony press release, Feb 26 2008
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According to Wired Magazine, the new Slacker Portable music player is no slacker. The SlackPort has been in the pipeline for about a year now, and Wired finally got their hands on 1 and reviewed it.
In summary, they liked it giving the thing 8/10, saying it was worth the wait.
The Slacker Portable connects by Wi-Fi 802.11B/G to the 2 million songs on the Slacker Radio internet radio service. The $299.99 8GB model can hold up to 4000 of those 2M songs and is refreshed once the unit is within range of a Wi-Fi service. Slacker Radio is free if one is willing to put up with listening to ads & limits on song skipping, otherwise it’s $10/month.
…the SP is bigger and heavier than the somewhat comparable iPod Touch, and a challenge to the Apple business model namely “People want to own their music”.
Exclusive Review: Slacker Portable Totally Rawks – Wired, February 01 2008
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In case you missed it, Taser International, that purveyor of electroshock equipment, is indeed exhibiting at CES 2008. Taser is located in booth #3433, where you’ll find some stunning new equipment.
They’re showing off their new fashion line of patterns and colors, some of which can be accessorized with a 1GB MP3 player. Shocking indeed…on many levels.
Associated Newspapers provides some clever tongue-in-cheek electrifying mood music suggestions for your new Taser C2…which is being promoted with the tagline “Fashion with a Bite”.
CES Gadget of the Day – LA Times, Jan 07 2008
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Gizmodo got a hold of a Nokia N95 phone/GPS/computer/etc and was kind enough to review it for us…
The Gizmodo reviewer starts off with a significant negative of the device, namely complexity. The converged functionality of a device that combines — GPS, a music player, 160MB of memory & a microSD slot, 5MB camera & a 2nd CIF camera, video recording/editing, radio, stereo speakers, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, office document viewer, HSDPA and telephony all in a 120g package — is both inspiring & intimidating. The commentator suggests that it would take days to understand the device, not to mention reading through the 140-page Nokia N95 User Guide.
Among other things, Gizmodo liked the GPS functionality of the N95 and the camera – they weren’t thrilled with the battery life, the price and the euro-centric HSDPA. Would they buy the N95?…in a word, no.
Gizmodo’s Long-Ass Nokia N95 Review: Why it Rocks, Why it Sucks – Gizmodo, April 9 2007
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With a 9.3% market share, Sansa is outperforming all of the other iPod wannabes. And now, Sandisk has an impressive new-ish Sansa Connect (last year’s Zing with a facelift) Mp3 player should increase that market share figure to 9.3%.
The Connect has a 2.2 inch QVGA screen, 4GB of flash memory with a microSD expansion slot, sized at 3.58×2.05×0.63 inches or 91×52x16 mm, and an internal speaker. The Wi-Fi enabled device can download music and access Internet radio via the Yahoo Music service – no computer required.
$249
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