We can always trust Memorex to liven up the party, and here they come now with three new music players that pin down the low-end of the market fairly well. The players are headed by the MMP8565, which features 1-2GB of flash memory, a monochrome LCD, and busts out the MP3, WAV, WMA and WMA-DRM tunes. It’s a fairly small unit, at 0.6-inches thick, and manages a respectable 12 hours of battery life. Rounding out the trio are the MMP8550 and MMP3774 players. The simple-as-it-gets disc shaped 8550 has a mere 256MB of storage and not much else. The gum stick shaped 3774 has a bit of a “me too” form factor, but spices up things a bit with a SD card slot to augment the 512MB of included storage. It also has an FM tuner. There’s no word on prices or availability for these things, but they’re supposed to show up at Target. (from Engadget)

This is a multi-purpose unit, which should come in very handy for many users on various occasions. It functions as an IC recorder, portable music player and memory stick. The ICD-U70 is capable of holding up to 1G of memory, while the ICD-U60 has 512MB of memory capacity

ICD-U70 & ICD-U60, Sony
20,000 yen for ICD-U70, 15,000 yen for ICD-U60
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So how does the “ultimate convergence device” sound? PC features in your pocket so you can truly work & play on the move. Sounded like an excellent idea to us – especially the convergence part. Well that was until they decided to remove the cellphone capabilities it was reportedly going to have. Oh and then some clever dick decided ‘why not remove all radio support all together?’ great idea conferred the other monkeys sat around the table, ‘anyone for PG Tips?’ Yes that’s right in all their monkey wisdom DualCor Technologies have decided against any form or inbuilt Bluetooth, WiFi or 3G. Now exactly what the point of this device now is or more importantly who is going to buy it eludes us quite frankly. So purely for entertainment value here are the specs: the XP side of the device powered by a 1.5GHz Via processor that’s backed by a full gig of DDR2 RAM. Both OSes can store data on the 30GB hard drive (and not 40GB as we previously reported) or the 1GB of NAND flash memory, with the Windows Mobile 5.0 side is supported by a 400MHz Intel PXA263 chip and 128MB of DRAM. Shipping will start in the next 90 days.

 

 
Sony senior vice president Takao Yuhara met with reporters yesterday to announce that the company is working on a new digital audio player, software and download service to take on Apple’s iPod. Yuhara didn’t provide a whole lot of details, though he did say the player would be “typically Sony,” by which we assume he meant it would be hobbled by intrusive DRM, poor support for formats other than ATRAC and prices that will make it completely uncompetitive in a market where you can get a decent 512MB flash player for well under $100. Let’s hope we don’t end up with this year’s answer to the Bean.

 

 

Apple today announced that it has chosen Samsung to provide the chips for their next-gen ipods. Samsung where chosen over PortalPlayer – apple’s current supplier. A Samsung exec, Jon Kang, commented “I knew PortalPlayer would take a dive, adding, “I knew that we would win this design.” So a nice non-modest response from Samsung then! Meanwhile PortalPlayer are left to lick their wounds after loosing – the Apple contract was 90% of their revenue and their stock fell 40% in ten minutes today – Ouch!

‘Tis indeed an attractive MP3 player. This compact USB 2.0 player features a tightly integrated OLED display, FM tuner, between 256MB and 1GB of storage, and up to 18 hours of MP3, WMA, and WAV playback off battery. Connect your CD or, because this is Japan, your MD player to the line-in and the SN-A250 also acts as a computer-free MP3 recording device. This 32 × 68.5 × 12.6-millimeters and 31g player goes on sale in Japan this weekend for up to 19,800 Yen (the 1GB model).
Now if it was a little bit slimmer, had a color screen, and a nicer logo, it’d be a hit.

 

Sony has just introduced this new voice recorder which also doubles as a MP3 player,It comes in 2 flavours the ICD-U70 (1GB) and the ICD-U50 (512MB) its versatility aslo extends to a USB key.The devices measure 30×20x99.7mm and weigh 64g.

 

Sony has announced a new direct to MS video recorder and is only for the (MemoryStick).The MSVR-A10 is a MS reader/recorder that supports the MPEG-4 AVC(H.264) format and encodes the video straight onto the Memorysticks.Quite usefull to be able to easily record movies for your PSP and Sony Ericsson Mobiles.

 

Dada Footwear is launching a wireless footwear system dubbed, “Code M.” The Code M System delivers both audio and data through your Trainers! Say goodbye to wires and carrying an MP3 player.

Check this video out, I think it’ll explain alot about what’s to come.