X-MICRO Video MP3 Player

X-Micro Technology Corp. has launched an innovative new MP3 player thatfeatures a color video display: the X-Micro Video MP3 player. The pocket-sizedVideo MP3 plays videos or displays photos on a crystal clear color OLED display.This device also plays MP3 files, displays lyrics, receives and records FMradio, offers digital voice recording, and serves as a USB flash drive.

The X-Micro Video MP3 lets users play music videos, home videos or other videoclips, and display personal photos all on a device that slips easily into apocket. Exceptionally lightweight, the Video MP3 can also be worn as a necklaceor pendant. The device lets users watch their favorite music videos or sharehome movies and photos with friends wherever they go. Easy-to-use software toconvert video and photo files is bundled with the Video MP3. Supported audiofiles include MP3, WMA, and WAV.

“The Video MP3 begins an entirely new era for portable MP3 players,” said LuisLin, president of X-Micro. “We believe this product will have tremendous appealto the youth market. This is such a portable device that users can enjoy theirfavorite music videos no matter where they are. The Video MP3 can also be wornas a necklace or pendant, and with a video loop or photo slide show playing itmakes a unique and eye-catching personal statement.”

The X-Micro Video MP3 also lets users listen to and record from an internal FMradio and make digital voice recordings with a built-in microphone. The deviceis available with 256MB, 512MB, or 1GB internal memory capacity. The lithium-ionbattery provides more than 10 hours playing time for music or 4 hours for video,and recharges when connected to a PC through the USB interface. The X-MicroVideo MP3 is scheduled to ship in March, 2005.

The Ultimate Christmas PC

Our friends from the Swedish website 64bits.sehave come up with a detailed guide on building the ultimate Christmas PC....made of gingerbread!

Check out the full guides with lots of pictures hereand here!

SanDisk slotRadio Player

SANDISK LAUNCHES SLOTRADIO PLAYER AND CARDS

Plug-and-Play Model Offered by the Card-Plus-Player Format Radically Lowers the Entry Barriers to Enjoying Digital Music, Ushering in a New Medium for Digital Music Consumption

CES 2009, South Hall, Booth # 30659, LAS VEGAS — SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), the inventor and world’s largest supplier of flash storage cards, today unveiled the new Sansa® slotRadio™ player and companion line of slotRadio music cards designed especially for the casual music consumer. The Sansa slotRadio player is a small, stylish, portable music device that comes bundled with a slotRadio card preloaded with 1,000 songs handpicked from the Billboard® charts, and professionally arranged into a variety of genre-themed playlists.

"slotRadio’s unprecedented simplicity will have even the most time-pressed music fans enjoying a huge range of music in no time," said Daniel Schreiber, senior vice president and general manager, SanDisk. "1,000 handpicked songs in your pocket with zero downloads makes enjoying digital music easier than ever. Never before has music been this accessible."

The immediacy of the plug-and-play model offered by the card-plus-player format ushers in a new way for consumers to enjoy music. To date, portable music devices typically required software installations, followed by time-consuming music selection and file-by-file downloading, topped off with cable connections and synchronization.

“slotRadio dramatically lowers these barriers, offering a genuine alternative to existing options,” said Noam Kedem, vice president of product management, SanDisk. “This makes slotRadio a perfect player for the pressed-for-time mom, the harried traveler, the can’t-stop-now fitness fanatic, as well as anyone who just wants to kick back and discover new songs, or re-discover a timeless favorite.”

The player comes bundled with a slotRadio mix card containing 1,000 songs. It features a variety of playlists from Billboard’s charts, including rock, contemporary, country, and others organized into themes such as “chillout,” “workout” and more. While songs cannot be removed from the card, users can easily navigate between the playlists, and skip through songs at the press of a button.

"slotRadio offers a uniquely uncomplicated portable digital music experience, combining the music discovery aspects of radio with consumer choice in genre selection," said Susan Kevorkian, Program Director, Consumer Markets at IDC. "Solutions like slotRadio that offer competitively priced, straightforward new ways to acquire and interact with music will play a key role in driving demand among new and existing digital music device and service users as those markets continue to evolve."

Priced at USD99.99 (MSRP)—including the 1,000 song card—the die-cast aluminum player also features a 1.5-inch OLED screen for viewing artist and song information, a FM radio and even an integrated, handy belt clip for hands-free listening. Additional 1,000 song, genre-specific and themed slotRadio cards will be sold separately at USD39.99 MSRP.

The Sansa slotRadio player is expected to be available for purchase online at sansa.com and at more than 4,400 RadioShack stores nationwide in early 2009.

The Sansa slotRadio cards are designed to be interchangeable with any slotRadio player and will be also compatible with the Sansa® Fuze™ line of MP3 players.

The Sansa slotRadio Player expands SanDisk’s Sansa audio/video product family, which includes the recently introduced slotMusic™ player and cards for avid fans, the popular Sansa Fuze™ and the small Sansa® Clip. For more information on SanDisk’s Sansa audio/video product line, visit http://www.sansa.com/.

Source: SanDisk

This Android 4.0 smartphone looks suspiciously similar to the Samsung Galaxy Note [with video]

Called simply the N8000, this knock-off runs Android 4.0.3 on a dual-core MTK6575 processor at 1GHz, a PowerVR SGX531 250M GPU chip, and 512MB of RAM. The 5" capacitive touchscreen here has a resolution of 800x480, compared to the Notes 5.3", 1280x800 display.Internal storage is rated at 4GB, expandable through an SDHC Micro SD card slot. And the whole shebang comes equipped with - oddly enough - a Russian GPS unit (GLONASS), a TV antenna that works in China (stowed away in the slot originally meant for the Notes S stylus; this doesnt come with a stylus), 8-megapixel back-facing camera, 0.3-megapixel front-facing, a 2500 mAh lithium ion battery, and two SIM slots - one for CDMA, the other GSM.Dimensions are at 144x79x8.9mm. Although this is just slightly smaller than the Notes 146.9x83x9.7mm, Akiba PC Watch says that most people will not be able to tell the two apart at first glance. Or at first hold, for that matter; like the Note, the N8000 weighsapproximately 178g.Unless, of course, your first glance is from the back - a bold-faced logo that reads "Android" appears where it says "Samsung" on the Notes back cover. Why the makers didnt go all the way with spoofing the Note, well never know. Maybe they were proud of their handiwork and didnt really want to call it a Samsung.One other key visual difference: the headphone jack here is at the top, instead of at the bottom for the Samsung smartphone.

Source: aPads online store [via Akiba PC Watch]