The MP3/MP4 player "swims" in Indian waters, for the time being

Jul 9, 2007 07:16 GMT  ·  By

The Indian Digital Life Style Distributors is one of the largest distributors of lifestyle products in India. The IDLDPL brand represents some of the world's famous brands like Sony, Pentax, Creative, YES, Lacie, Parrot, Panasonic, Glofiish Tenda and Colorvision.

The India Digital Life Style Distributors has recently announced the launch of a sleek fancy YES branded MP4/MP3 players on the Indian market. The new-comer features voice recorder with 7 EQ customization modes.

Regarding the player's capabilities, it supports photo viewing, video playback and comes with an integrated digital FM tuner and FM voice recording, which helps the user store useful verbal notes directly on the device. It sports a 1.8" 65K Color TFT LCD display, and the battery resists for 8 long hours without any interruption. The E-book function allows the owner to listen to electronic books anywhere. As for the file formats, the players supports MP3/ WMA/ WMA (DRM)/ MTV/ JPG and comes packed with 1GB/2GB of built-in flash memory.

The YMP40 version makes your music playback session even more fun, since it features gaming capabilities and embeds some interesting games like Hungry Snake and Box Move.

All in all, the Swanky player enables you to tune into your favorite radio channel, to record personal voice memos as well as sharing your most memorable photos with the loved ones. Not to mention the popular E-book function, even though the screen size might seem a little bit inappropriate for this. In case the internal memory is insufficient, the internal Micro SD slot allows you to extend your entertainment moments.

The player's sound can be customized using one of the 7 EQ modes. Nevertheless, this MP3/MP4 player is a small, lightweight device, and ideal to be your companion while traveling or commuting. This is a compact, miniature MP3/MP4 player, which won't take up valuable space making it perfect to put it in your briefcase, backpack, purse, and even your pocket. It fits in the palm of your hand weighing only 40g with dimension 11(D) x 37(W) x 74.5(H) mm.

YMP40 supports different languages like English, Chinese, French, and German as well as Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

Regarding the company's new addition to the portfolio, Mr.Ashmit Singh, brand manager for YES at IDLDPL stated: "This family of product is going to take the market by storm. We are hopeful to garner a very good market in a short span of time."

As for the pricing and availability, the Swanky player costs Rs.4490 for the 1GB model and Rs.5490 for the 2GB one, meaning around 120 bucks a pop! The player is said to be available on the Indian market through most of the large retail stores and B2C websites.