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The Cassette Walkman Not Really Dead, Just Getting SD Card Slot, MP3 Playback

Back when Sony officially revealed the fact that they're discontinuing their iconic Cassette Walkman player, quite a lot of people were actually shocked that this player from their youths was still around, and admitted to feeling somewhat sad about it going into oblivion. And since retro always seems to be a ...

3 December 2010
05:52 GMT

Hearing-Loss Rates Decreasing

The new legislation initiatives, which seek to impose a decibel limit on all new, personal music players, could be unnecessary, a new study shows. It would appear that, overall, the rate of hearing loss in the population is dropping rather than increasing, despite a surge in the usage of personal music devices such a...

18 January 2010
02:54 GMT

EU Regulators to Set Maximum iPod Volumes

Policymakers in the European Union are at this point trying to come to an agreement about how to best limit the noise levels produced by modern mp3 players. The devices employ such advanced technologies, that they can easily produce sounds up to 100 decibels in intensity from very small headsets. Millions of teens on...

14 December 2009
16:11 GMT

iPod Volumes Risk Making Owners Deaf

The advent of iPods and other personal mp3 players over recent years has seen a lot of teenagers in America, Europe and Asia starting to listen to their favorite music anytime, anywhere, which is exactly what these devices were built for. However, most of them are fairly powerful and can generate intense sounds. Teen...

12 October 2009
21:01 GMT

SanDisk Bumps Sansa Clip Memory up to 8GB

The Sansa Clip has been around for quite a long time now, but, despite its success, it somehow lacked the capacity to fight against some of the other ultra-portable players around, the main reason being the relatively limited amount of available memory. However, it seems that SanDisk has decided to take care of this ...

12 November 2008
07:51 GMT

SanDisk Unveils Sansa slotMusic Player – No Bells or Whistles Here

Without a doubt, SanDisk is one of the most important flash memory manufacturers out there, but the truth of the matter is that lately it's made some more or less wrong moves on the market by trying to tackle certain market segments where its chances of success aren't exactly high. That's also the case...

16 October 2008
02:26 GMT

The Future of Small Gadgets Is Green: Shiro SQ-S, on Solar Power

Amidst all the "green"-tag discussions, it looks like some manufacturers are really taking things seriously, at least way more seriously than others do. It's with a happy thought and thumbs up that we introduce to you one of the nicest and most environment-friendly audio gadgets, in the body of the SQ-S MP3 play...

13 October 2008
10:51 GMT

TrekStor Unveils Three New MP3 Players

The IFA consumer electronics show will debut in Berlin in just two days' time, so it's no wonder that the most important names in the industry are already preparing new and interesting products to be launched on this special occasion. And that's also the case with TrekStor, which has just announced the...

26 August 2008
02:54 GMT

Samsung Intros Pebble-Shaped and Credit Card-Sized Portable Players

Let's face it, the design of a certain product is one of the most important factors taken into consideration when we decide whether or not we should purchase it, and this is especially true in the case of portable media players. For this reason, the Korean company Samsung has come up with two new devices that co...

24 April 2008
09:56 GMT

SanDisk Unveils the Long-Rumored Sansa Fuze MP3 Player

As you might remember from one of our previous articles, we've managed to have a very insightful conversation with one of SanDisk's reps at CeBIT, who, among other facts, also revealed that SanDisk was preparing to launch a hot new product, designed to fill in the void between the Clip and the View models. ...

12 March 2008
04:05 GMT

CES 2008: Coby and WoozyFly to Deliver MP3 Players!

Coby and WoozyFly.com have teamed up to deliver a brand new series of MP3 players, MP4 and Portable Media Players, all of them enhanced with cool music content to suit all tastes.Therefore, starting this month, Coby's customers will be able to select from MP3 players with video, MP4 players and Portable Media pl...

9 January 2008
06:17 GMT

CES 2008: Creative Reveals Zen Micro Boomboxes!

Creative fans should be happy to know that their favorite company has just announced during the 2008 International Consumer Electronic trade show two new micro boom boxes to join its popular MP3 player series.Apparently, both ZEN Stone and ZEN Stone Plus will feature built-in speakers, albeit don't expect hi-fi ...

8 January 2008
04:50 GMT

Santa Delivers Porn Via Portable Media Player

Over the past few years, there have been several cases of people discovering large amounts of pornographic material stored on their newly-acquired devices (media players, laptops, etc.), the worst case scenarios being the moments when the respective content has been stumbled-upon by kids. And this is exactly what hap...

2 January 2008
16:31 GMT

iPod- Boom Box Missing Link: 100% Wireless!

Besides the fact that it wears an unpronounceable funny name, the Scosche Bluelife fellows have developed what could be considered the missing link between small iPods and big fat boom boxes. How come? Well, until now, if you wanted to replace the headphones with home stereos to listen to your iPod content, you neede...

19 December 2007
13:56 GMT

Shenzhen Tongfang Comes with Good Features but Crappy Name

So, uh, what happened? Since when do crappy names hide cool features?! Well, there was a Tomato, an Onion and now there Shenzhen Tongfang! I am not going to discuss the trends in media player names. With so many players popping out on the market like mushrooms after a warm April rain, it would be impossible to have o...

13 December 2007
12:36 GMT

Toshiba Rolls Out New Gigabeat Breed!

Toshiba is rolling out a new digital audio player series, taken from the already famous Gigabeat U series. The new additions to the company's portfolio were the silly codenamed U104, U205 and U206, which come in 1GB and 2GB storage capacity versions.All of them were enhanced with the same 65k OLED screen display...

6 November 2007
10:06 GMT

Warning! MP3 Players Can Make You Deaf!!!

They are everywhere around us. And I mean everywhere. I believe they're even addictive. The MP3 mania has some devastating drawbacks. How come? Well, for starters, there are some really freighting rumors that explain the damage that they can actually do. This ain't no joke, since according to the Royal Inst...

10 September 2007
06:09 GMT

Panasonic Rolls Out Bluetooth-Enabled MP3 Player That Synchs with Cell Phones

As fall approaches rapidly, an increasing number of manufacturers are launching all sorts of products, just in time for what's commonly known as the "back to school" season, when most students go nuts and start purchasing electronic devices like there's no tomorrow. And one of the latest announcements of th...

30 August 2007
10:16 GMT

SanDisk Presents a Possible iPod Shuffle Or Creative Zen Stone Killer: the Sansa Clip

Although SanDisk's venture into the world of portable music players is not exactly backed up by a very long experience in this field, the company managed to come up with some pretty impressive models over time, each of them providing advanced and innovative features at some pretty affordable price tags. And that...

28 August 2007
13:06 GMT

Samsung Introduces YP-S5 and YP-T10 DAPs with Bluetooth 2.0

It seems that the sun is shinning on Samsung's street again. The company is placing itself on highest summit again after launching these YP-S5 and YP-T10 digital audio players. Just like the already launched YP-P2 DAP, the two new additions to the company's portfolio have been enhanced with Bluetooth 2.0 co...

17 August 2007
02:46 GMT

Philips Boosts Up SA3300's Capacity to 8GB A Pop!

Someone walked in Creative's shoes, when designing the 3300 series! I didn't mentione Philips, did I? Ups! Apparently, the fellows from Philips were kind of busy recently with the introduction of a new line of flash players. The new comer was dubbed SA 3300 and resembles the previous SA6000 line. One of the...

13 August 2007
02:46 GMT

KanaSD, Music on Switchable SD Cards

We've had a small debate here on how cool the KanaSD player is; obviously, we weren't able to reach a firm conclusion: some say that KanaSD simply rocks beyond a lot of higher-class, more expensive, more pretentious players, while others just say it's dumb... Now, I was among those who had a rather mil...

25 July 2007
09:50 GMT

Toshiba Gone Wild?! It Unleashed Funky Colored Zune-Like Mp3 U-Series!?!

Toshiba decided to expand the portfolio of its famous mobile technologies with the addition of the gigabeat MP3 player. The U-Series is a freshly designed digital music player with direct-to-MP3 player music technology, FM tuner and radio recorder.According to Toshiba, every gigabeat U-Series Mp3 player comes equippe...

24 July 2007
09:57 GMT

Warning! It's Raining with EGGs-MP3 Players!!!

Now, is it just me, or this is another idiotic cloning act in the audio electronic industry? I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this. And still, I am confused.The fellows from Engadget give us the Sofmap's digital olive DAP, which looks like an X2gen X-Egg Mp3 player I run into a couple of weeks ago. But...

12 July 2007
09:52 GMT

Sony's New MP3 Players Look Like Lipstick

Sony seems to be thinking more about its player's design. The newly released NW-E010 Walkman measures the size of a lipstick and weighs less than a cigarette pack.On the inside, it features a direct USB connection, a 3 line color display and an integrated FM tuner, for the ones that might get bored of music whil...

4 June 2007
05:35 GMT

Philips Buys into The US Market

After some interesting moves from Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., which included some joint ventures with LG Electronics to have a larger access to the monitor market, Philips is undertaking some other moves towards other possible markets, one of which being the mobile accessories market.To do so they have anno...

13 April 2007
04:55 GMT


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