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  Samsung has been selling its Galaxy Player 70 since last year and now they’ve announced an upgrade of the 5-inch portable media player. Known as Galaxy Player 70 Plus, the PMP will take on the iPod touch with a faster 1GHz dual-core processor and 5MP camera. Moreover, the PMP will also come with features [...]

  Is 3.6-inch and 4-inch display size small for you and 5-inch a little big? Well, Samsung has announced a new PMP that boasts a display size of 4.2-inches with resolution support of 800×480 pixels (WVGA). Interestingly, the PMP has an IPS panel, which apparently is the first time Samsung has used in its Galaxy [...]

  Announced at IFA earlier this month, Sony has announced their Android-based Walkman for the Japanese market. The NWZ-Z1000 Series portable media player will be available in Japan from December that will give the goodness of Android OS and audio quality you expect in a Walkman device. The player boasts an Inflection Surface Form design [...]

  While most companies look to increase the display size of successive products, Creative has done the opposite with their Zen X-Fi3. Third installment in the Zen X-Fi series, the X-Fi3 has got a smaller 2-inch display compared to X-Fi2′s 3-incher. However, the new media player has got few new and improved tricks to show [...]

  Sony has introduced a new set of Walkman players for the European region. First up is the NWZ-W260 aimed at consumers with active lifestyle. The wire-free music player is water resistant and employs fast charging feature that allows to play up to 60 minutes of music on just 3 minutes of charging. Additionally it [...]

  Korean PMP maker, Cowon is now selling its Android OS-based D3 Plenue phone in India. The Android 2.1-running D3 Plenue boasts the same superior playback qualities like other Cowon players along with a wide variety of format support. As for its other features, the player comes with a 3.7-inch AMOLED WVGA display screen, full [...]

  Samsung has announced its Android-based media players will soon be available in Russia and Switzerland. While the Russian market will first stock the 4-inch Galaxy S WiFi 4.0, Swiss consumers will be able to lay their hands on the bigger 5-inch Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 version. Both players run Android 2.2 (upgradeable to Android [...]

  Cowon has expanded its V5 PMP lineup with a new player dubbed as V5S. V5S boasts similar features to previous V5 players but comes loaded with learning content like a built-in dictionary, e-learning app called Doo Tester, Wordup game to enhance English vocabulary and Alpha Brain. As for its media player prowess, the V5S [...]

  Samsung has just announced a new Android powered portable multimedia player that will grace the show floor at the CES next week. The Galaxy Player (YP-GB1) is clearly inspired from Samsung’s hot-selling Galaxy S phone and aims to take on the iPod touch with Android 2.2 (Froyo) onboard. The Galaxy Player is just 9.9mm [...]

  Cowon has announced its hard-drive based portable media player for Indian consumers. In addition to the excellent multimedia codec support Cowon gives, users will now be able to store heaps of content on X7’s 160GB integrated storage. Promising a playback of up to 103 hours of music or 10 hours of video, the X7 [...]

  At the wireless speakers’ launch, Creative shed some light on its future roadmap for the Indian market. Creative has confirmed that its recently launched Android tablets and Android-based PMP will hit the retail shelves in early 2011. How early is what we’re not really aware of but if we were to take a guess [...]

  Well, here it is. Cowon’s speculated 3D PMP has been unveiled and will hit the Korean shelves from December 10. The Cowon 3D looks pretty similar to its V5 media player but adds a 3D display that does not require a user to wear any special glasses. The player features a 4.8-inch 800×480 LCD [...]

  Nintendo may’ve launched the world’s first 3D portable gaming console but Cowon could be the first one to unveil a 3D portable media player. While the details are hard to come by, one Cowon player aka Cowon 3D was recently certified by South Korea’s Radio Research Agency. The listing does not say anything else [...]

  Sony India has expanded its E-Series line of portable media players with the addition of E353 and E454. Both the PMPs are priced below the 7k price range and will come in choices of multitude colors. Promising a playback of about 50 hours of audio or 10 hours of video, the players boast number [...]

  Singapore-based Creative may be struggling to compete with the likes of iPod touch or Zune but they surely have created a name when it comes to the value for money priced music players that belong to the ZEN series. The first ZEN device came in 2007 and since then, Creative has rolled out many [...]