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The Slacker G2 has a review from Gadling. Why not CNET, you ask? The 2.5-inch QVGA screen will not be playing a lot of videos but the ability to customize your online radio station may be worth the unannounced asking price of the unit and the $10/ month or $90/ a year Slacker Radio subsciption. There will be major competition from Apple’s new iTunes Genius and Zune Pass. The Slacker G2 comes in 4Gb and 8GB versions. Think of it as a better, more portable Slacker.

[review via engadget]

Clipta - new video wave: PMP Armageddon: Ainol V3000 vs ONDA VX787 vs RAmos T8

Please feel free to make a comment on the video you just saw in our comments section. For more info on the three branded PMPs featured, here is our posts about them:

ONDA VX787

RAmos iMovie (T8)

Ainol V3000

Archos’ new dependency on the touch screen is very important in the new Archos 5 and 7. Archos PMPs up to the Gen5 utilizes tactile buttons in support of the touchscreen interface. With the introduction of both Archos 5 and Archos 7, Archos is hard pressed to put out a fairly sophisticated touchscreen UI, hence the decision probably of releasing the product while software is still in beta. The chrome casing is beautiful but it does produce glare and is a magnet for fingerprints.

All in all, the Archos 5 is a big improvement on the 605 WiFi. It’s better in almost everything with nifty add ons tempting Archos fans to upgrade as quickly as possible, not to mention the much improved looks. Read on for a video comparison on the matter. Or read the entire review here.

Better than what we have been feared, the fact remains that the F13 Pasen can reject more than one, by its sense of incompleteness and its small defects from sealing good performance audio and video. However, if you want a player fairly comprehensive and efficient without you ruin, it could be a good choice among many others.

Points positifs: Positive points:

• Bonne finition Good finish
• performances audio/vidéo performance audio / video
• Nombre de fonctions Many functions
• UMS UMS

Points négatifs: Negative points:

• Autonomie Autonomy
• Ergonomie déroutante Ergonomics confusing
• Taux de transfert Transfer Rate
• Des petits défauts un peu partout Small defects everywhere

Video after the break.

Chuwi T8 Specs:

3-inch 400 x 240 touch screen
RM, RMVB, AVI, DIVX, XVID, FLV , ASF, MP4
MP3, WMA, WMA/VBR, APE, FLAC , AAC , OGG
Jpeg, Bmp , Gif, multi-line text
Voice recording, FM radio, FM recording
4GB

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The PMP than every bargain hunter has been swooning over has finally been videoed. The Teclast M26 is as sleek as we hoped it would be though the firmware isn’t quite ready yet. The 2.6-inch resistive touch screen isn’t as sensitive as more expensive players with capacitive touch screen, but the Wolfson chip gives music listening a really classy boost, in par with iPods and Samsungs. It’s a cheap player from Teclast and they really went out of their way to cut cost, including opting out of putting in a pricier capacitive touch screen. Mp4 Nation thinks it can sell the 8GB version for less than $100. Quite the bargain.

The Teclast M26 supports PlayFX, album art, ID3, audio resume, multi-functions includes e-Book, audio recordings, TTS.

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Nothingbutcreative, a cool new site we’ve heard about just now has a review of the newly announced Zen X-Fi. They have a test unit and they took their time unboxing the PMP and taking very, very good impressionistic photos of the X-Fi player from Creative and a video, which we embedded below this post. We are happy to note that X-Fi can be turned on and off…

The side-by-side photo with the Zen V Plus is also something not to be missed.

Their test unit is the 32GB version with the WiFi so the full review, which should be coming a few days from now should be interesting. I can’t wait till someone tries out the instant messaging function. Video below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wERTIyBlX2w

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Blogeee has done an early review of the Acer’s ultraportable, and their conclusion is that it is a genuine Eee PC killer. For 30 euros more than the original Eee PC 701, you can get a better, prettier machine with a more comfortable keyboard, better support for memory extension and the Aspire One is using a superior Intel Atom processor.

Read on for the video (in French).

Complete review at Blogeee.

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Something you might need (WiFi finder pen):


Présentation de l’Acer Aspire One from Blogeee.net on Vimeo.

Is MID the future of portable media players?

I went over to the our friends site at Dap Review, which I rarely do nowadays unfortunately, and found an interesting discussion about the state of the PMP/MP3 market. The biggest players are not releasing new models often enough and manufacturers from China still have not resolved their firmware issues. The most interesting post, in my opinion, was from vlada who volunteered that the not-so-humble MID (mobile Internet device) that BenQ, Lenovo and Aigo has been working on will take PMPs to the next level. The prices of these MIDs right now are nothing to scoff at. These are as far from Chinese MP4 players as you can go. The first of these MID to become operational and ready for shipment, the Aigo one, has been thoroughly reviewed at UMPC Fever. We want you to direct you, dear readers, to that review post and see for yourselves. It’s a 4.8-inch-screen, a Intel Atom Z500 running the engine, Midnux GUI, touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY, the full complement of HSDPA, WiFi and GPS. It’s really a media-centric computer. The unoxing video after the break.

Note: we still think the future of the PMP market looks something like this.