Mp3 & Mp4 Players
Samsung K5 - Yepp review
Ever felt like sharing that one song’s amazing guitar riff with a friend, only to surrender your earbuds or dangle them between yourselves as you both try to listen in on what has now become a miniscule peep? Short of carrying yet another AA-driven pocket weight at all times, there was never really [...]
SanDisk Sansa Express Review
The Sansa Express is SanDisk’s budget MP3 player selling in the sub sixty dollar price range. Although it is what you would expect from an inexpensive MP3 player, there are a few features that give it a little bit of an edge in the budget MP3 player market, one being its microSD slot for memory [...]
iRiver Clix (4GB, second generation)
Truly, iRiver scored a win when it came up with the D-Click interface, arguably the most innovative DAP design move since the iPod scroll wheel. In fact, it was the Clix's excellent user interface–combined with a host of complementing features–that pushed it to be the highest-rated MP3 player on CNET. Now, a second-generation Clix is [...]
Toshiba Gigabeat MES30VW (30GB, white)
Toshiba's Gigabeat S series–shown off by Bill Gates during his Windows Vista-centered CES keynote last January–looks like a bona fide iPod challenger, as it incorporates an improved version of Microsoft's superintuitive Portable Media Center (PMC 2.11) software into a tiny and attractive 30GB ($300; blue or white) or 60GB ($400; black) portable video player. The [...]
RCA Pearl (1GB, blue)
Plug-in-style MP3 players–that is, those with the USB interface built right in–have been enjoying a bit of a renaissance lately, as evidenced by the recent release of the SanDisk Sansa Express. RCA has now joined the trend with the Pearl, one of three players in the company's new Gem Line. Like the Express, the Pearl [...]
Orizon: Memup’s Inaugural PMP
Memup will soon become the latest company to enter the PMP market in 2007. With the appearance of many portable video players at the current time, what is it about this debutante that merits recognition? Let’s take a look.
The Orizon will feature a LCD screen which is significantly larger than most, extending 4.3-inches with 480 [...]
Meizu M6 miniPlayer review
The Meizu M6 miniPlayer is a newcomer to the US MP3 player market. This thin flash player comes in 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB sizes to match the other players in its class: the Nano, Z5, e200, clix, and other slim high capacity flash players. This player has most of the bases covers in terms of [...]
SanDisk Sansa Shaker Review
The ubiquity of digital audio players is becoming more evident as companies venture into younger demographics. SanDisk does just that with an MP3 player targeted at the tween , and possibly even the toddler demographic. Enter the Sansa Shaker. Doused in gender specific colors of pink and blue, the shaker resembles more of a toy [...]
iriver T50 and T60 - review
How many boxes of Toblerone chocolates do you think were involved in designing iriver's new T50 and T60 digital audio players (DAPs)?
I'd say at least two, one each for this pair of low-capacity flash DAPs recently released in Korea and Japan. Neither player has been officially released in the United States yet, but [...]
