Archive for August, 2008
Cowon aren’t necessarily a company you go to first for media players, but they’ve got some lovely looking players prepared to tempt you over. Both the L3 (right) and the S9 Curve (left) are touchscreens, and the S9 features an AMOLED screen. This means an ultra thin, ultra bright screen, but with minimal power consumption, which could explain the 40 hours music playback.
The other device, the S9, has a 3.3-inch LCD screen and an acccelerometer, for automatic adjustment to landscape for video. Both units will feature a TV tuner, and support Apple lossless and True Audio codecs.
Most importantly though, they’re per-ty.
With a price tag of just one penny under £30, the i10 from Pure allows you to connect up your iPod to any audio device that has a 3.5mm stereo line input, including all of Pure’s radios.
And it will also charge up your iPod whilst it’s playing.
In addition, Pure adds that the i10 will act as a remote control for your iPod, while it is docked.
Designed to be "discreet", the i10 has a black and silver finish, and is small enough to be packed in a suitcase for tunes whilst on hols.
And, reflecting this, Pure has added a two-pin Euro plug adaptor along with the standard UK power adaptor.
The Pure i-10 will be available in September for £29.99.
Sony today followed through on recent leaks with a significant overhaul of its Walkman music players. Apart from a new design that slims the device down to under 0.3 inches and harmonizes the look among all video-capable Sony players, the S730 series are the first to simplify smart playlists with a fully automatic feature known as SensMe. The addition gauges the tempo, rhythm, and other factors of songs and creates as many as 11 playlists of its own to match a given mood.
It further debuts support for protected Windows Media video on Walkman players as well as software to streamline drag-and-drop loading of content without relying on the operating system’s interface, helping users pull content from iTunes and other third-party stores.
Putting two iPhone / iPod docks in an alarm clock is a simple and clever idea that’s so far only shown up in the JVC-PN7 (which we have and love), but it looks like iLuv’s getting in the game as well with the new iMM137. Apart from the two shielded iPhone 3G-compatible docks up top, it’s the usual iLuv kit with 5 watt jAura sound, an aux input, and dual alarms — not a bad deal for an MSRP of $129 that’ll almost certainly be lower at retail when this hits in September.
A month after the launch of the HP-FXC50, Victor-JVC introduces the HP-FXC70, HD earphones that provide high-fidelity sound reproduction. This new version uses the same technology as the FXC50, with longer and thinner than usual drivers providing increased comfort and natural sound. Now, like it or not, your earbuds can be placed deeper into your ears.
Our dynamic earphones provide a frequency range of 8Hz～25,000Hz, a sound pressure sensitivity of 103dB/1mW, an impedance of 16Ω, feature 5.8mm drivers and accept a maximum input of 150mW.
We have no information concerning THD (Total Harmonic Distorsion).
Available at the beginning of September in two colors: Black and Blue. For those interested, you can now purchase the HP-FXC50 on GeekStuff4U.com