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Creative to Go On a Suing Spree

It must have felt great getting Apple to hand over $100 million just like that. So nice is the feeling that Creative is already having plans to point their Death Star on the smaller patent infringers. President of Creative, Craig McHugh, said, “There many MP3 player makers in the US market that are currently using the [...]

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Microsoft’s iPod-Killer: Zune

Zune rumors have been storming the blogosphere as of late, but Microsoft has finally made their official confirmation. “Today we confirmed a new music and entertainment project called Zune. Under the Zune brand, we will deliver a family of hardware and software products, the first of which will be available this year. We see a great [...]

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Sony NW-S205F and NW-S203F Music Players

Tampon jokes aside, these new Walkman music players from Sony looks pretty innovative. It comes in two versions, the black-colored NW-S205F and the silver-colored NW-S203F. Both are flash-based and sport numerous features such as pedometer, “collar knob” for music navigation, calorie counter, stopwatch, FM tuner and a one-line organic EL display. The best part is it [...]

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Creative Zen V And Zen V Plus

The mystery MP3 players that Creative teased us with several days ago are finally revealed. They are the ZEN V and ZEN V Plus, and I must say they have to be the best-looking Creative MP3 player yet. The button interface has a true “Zen” feel to it, and the different color schemes all look [...]

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M-Cody M-20: Worthy iPod Contender

Mix an iPod Nano with a LG KG800 and this is what you’ll get. The M-Cody M-20. Together with its nice looks are white OLED display, 256MB/512MB/1GB/2GB options, MP3/WMA/WAV/OGG support, 12-hours playtime, FM radio with 20 preset channels, voice and line-in recording, multi-language ID3 tag and SRS/WOW/TruBass support. Measuring 80.7 x 33.5 x 7.5mm, it is [...]

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$10 MP3 Player, Back in Blue

Last month, Evergreen amazed everyone with their 999 Yen (~US$10) that uses external SD memory cards as its song storage method. Now the MP3 player is back in shades of dark blue and pastel blue. Other than the color change, the player remains at the same tiny size of 58 x 60 x 13mm and [...]

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World’s Smallest MP3 Player mobiBLU DAH-1500i Goes 2GB

If I’m not mistaken, the mobiBLU DAH-1500i is still the world’s smallest MP3 player, measuring a mere 24 x 24 x 24mm (0.94 x 0.94 x 0.94-inch) and weighing just 18 grams (0.63 ounces). Now that it’s being bumped up to 2GB, it’s probably the flash-storage player with the best capacity/size ratio. Other than just being [...]

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