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  Creative today has announced two new portable media players – Zen X-Fi Style and Zen Style for Indian consumers. Carrying on Creative’s patented X-Fi audio technology is X-Fi Style that brings the same excellent audio quality at a cheaper price point. It comes in capacities of 8/16/32GB and features 2.4-inch TFT display, video-out supporting [...]

  Samsung has strengthened its portable media player offering with the introduction of Galaxy Player 50 (YP-G50). The Galaxy Player 50 is not the same as previously leaked YP-MB2 but has decent specs for those looking for an Android-based PMP. The player runs on Android 2.1 OS and features a 3.2-inch touchscreen display, Wi-Fi 802.11n, [...]

  The iPods that were unveiled yesterday in the US will soon be available in the Indian market. All the iPods will be available from next week from Apple’s authorized retailers and will cost as follows: 2GB iPod shuffle: Rs. 3,200 8GB iPod nano: Rs. 10,700 16GB iPod nano: Rs. 12,700 8GB iPod touch: Rs. [...]

  Apple has refreshed its iPod family with an all new iPod shuffle, iPod nano and iPod touch. All the iPods, particularly iPod nano is way different from the previous generations and sport a new design. Starting with the shuffle, Apple brings back the ring buttons and clubs it with previous generation’s VoiceOver technology, Genius [...]

  SanDisk has rekindled its audio player aspirations with the introduction of an affordable Sansa Fuze+. The Fuze+ succeeds its Sansa Fuze PMP and comes in a multitude of colors with an all new design. The Sansa Fuze+ features include a wide range of audio/video codec support, 2.4-inch QVGA display, film-strip user interface, capacitive controls, [...]

  Sony today announced A Series portable media players for the Indian market. The A844 (8GB) and A845 (16GB) are touted as the slimmest Walkmans till date and features a 2.8-inch OLED WQVGA screen (400×240 pixels) that claims to give faster response time, improved color reproduction and clarity. Walkman players ensure topnotch audio performance and [...]

  We’ve seen Samsung’s YP-MB2 in a blurry leaked video before but check this picture out. It is by far the most clear picture of the device we’ve seen till date. As expected, the PMP is strikingly similar to Galaxy S but there’s no sight of a front facing camera or the proximity sensor. Another [...]

  We reviewed Cowon’s V5 last month and despite it giving a worthy PMP experience, we couldn’t help but notice the absence of Wi-Fi. Good thing is that Cowon is now making amends to its 4.8-inch media player. Cowon has today introduced V5W in South Korea that not only adds Wi-Fi but also supports playback [...]

  Portable Media Players (PMPs) these days have converged to do a lot of things. However, companies like Cowon still produce a “true PMP” that concentrates only on the multimedia prowess and nothing else. The product we try out this time is Cowon’s V5 HD PMP.

  We already know a lot of things about YP-MB2 and now one new piece of information has trickled out from our source. He claims that YP-MB2 will be “more or less similar to South Korean version of Galaxy S (SHW-M110S).” We’re not sure if he claimed about the design but when going through the [...]

  Samsung’s Yepp (YP) line of music players is bound to get an addition soon. It will be the YP-MB2 and thanks to Bluetooth SIG we know its important specs. The Android running MB2 will feature a 4-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and TouchWiz 3.0 UI. The leaked features look enticing and if [...]

  FIFA Football World Cup is just around the corner and Samsung is trying to play the WC card to pitch its products. This time it’s the YP-RB media player with integrated T-DMB that enables users to watch live matches wherever they go. Additionally, Samsung has bumped the battery, which means users can enjoy DMB [...]

  Dual-booting OS in a portable device is often the work of modders but Korea-based Viliv has taken the same concept to its upcoming Portable Media Player. The Viliv P3 Prime is one-of-its-kind PMP that has partition to run both – WinCE and Android OS. As far as its remaining specs are concerned, it has [...]

  As expected, Microsoft has released a new firmware of its Zune HD music player. The v4.5 brings in some handy features like SmartDJ, additional codecs and access to Marketplace on TV-out via the connected AV dock. Zune HD users can get the update from the Zune PC software. For now, check out this small [...]

  Microsoft has officially announced the 64GB Zune HD, which we saw a few days back. The device will be available for $349.99 from April 12 through Zuneoriginals.com or about $50 cheaper than the iPod touch with the same storage. The new Zune HD will store double the content and can store up to 16,000 [...]