Hacha recently introduces its latest MP3 players, PF02 at an attractive price. For just RMB99 (approx US$15), you can get a 2GB MP3 player with SRS WOW supported. You’ll have a decent audio quality, and no other fancy features. Sounds not a bad deal, huh!

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iAudio Korea has officially announced that the company is making debut of Cowon O2 on the coming monday. The PMP was introduced during the IFA 2008, together with the company MP3 player, Cowon S9 and GPS device, L3.

Specification:

• Powered by TI chip
• Supports MP3, WMA, AAC, AC3, FLAC, OGG, Apple Lossless audio
• Supports DivX 3.11/4/5/6, XviD, MPEG-4 SP/ASP, WMV 7/8/9, H.264, MPEG-1  video
• Supports T-DMB with TV-Out
• Available in 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB with maximum 32GB SDHC of extended memory
• Available in 3 colors (White, Black, and Pink)

There will be 3 versions available for Cowon O2, which are Standard, Dictionary, and DMB edition. The suggested retail prices are ranged from 249,000 Won (approx US$190) to 399,000 Won (approx US$305) .

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LiveCountingCrows is offering a free MP3 download of their live show in Charlotte, NC. Hurry up, only 10k available!

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AOC recently announced the new V9, which is claimed with 90 hours of long battery life. The AOC V9 is powered by Sigmatel’s latest STMP3710 solution. The solution features an ARM926 32-bit CPU, running at 206Mhz with 99dB SNR. As usual, it plays WMA, MP3, AAC, and WAV audio.

Detailed specification and price are still unknown. By the way, it should be tagged with affordable low price!

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Reigncom introduced iRiver SPINN back to this January, during the CES 2008. Now it is appeared on Korea’s Radio Research Laboratory website. It is very likely to be launched on early of this August. Nevertheless, the said 16GB was not listed on the website. Only 4GB and 8GB version are available.

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Though iRiver P10 was introduced during the CES 2008 this January, it seems that not ready to be launched yet. However, one of the reader of China-based iMP3 manage to get one sample to play with it. This is an engineering sample with the buggy firmware version 0.9.

Generally, the reporter quite satisfy with it, especially on its big 4″ display! One thing to be dissapointed is its battery life. During the testing, it could only plays video up to 4 hours continuosly.

Still, no idea on when will it be available!

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Philips GoGear SA28 is the first MP3 player that features its own Fullsound technology. The SA28 was first introduced during the CES2008, and now, it is available at China mainland. The 2GB SA28 is sale for RMB399 (approx US$57) with built-in FM tuner.

Fullsound is a digital audio algorithm patented by Philips that refines audio output by performing 10 million operations per second to analyze and re-compute the music signal before it is sent to the speaker. This means that FullSound brings out the best of any audio system and delivers more life to the music.

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Philips GoGear SA28 (dissected)

Sigmatel STMP3710

Sigmatel STFM1000
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iRiver Japan has introduced the company new line-up, Mplayer Season 2. The new Mickey Mouse features 1GB of memory and comes with 10 new colors. It will be available from 11th April 2008 and suggested price is 7980 Yen (approx US$79).

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Teclast recently introduced its new X11, which targets on low-end market. This is a very basic MP3 player, without any fancy features. It is powered by Rockchip RK2601A solution and features a 1.1″ OLED display. For just RMB199 (approx US$28), you can get a 2GB Teclast X11 with lossless audio supported.

Specification:

• 1.1″ OLED display @ 128 x 64 pixel
• Supports MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC audio playback
• Features 7 predefined EQ, 1 user defined EQ
• Battery life up to 10 hours
• 67 × 30 × 8.9mm

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The Korean MPIO was quiet for sometimes in the industry. Now, the company is back with the new MPIO V10. It is the PMP powered by OMAP 2 processor and run on Windows CE 5.0 as it’s core system. It uses 4GB/8GB Solid State Drive as its storage media, and SD card extension.

It features a 3″ TFT LCD touch screen @ 480 x 272 pixel resolution. Beside audio and video playback, the V10 also comes with TV-Out support, built-in FM tuner, and etc. The battery life is about 5 hours for video playback.

The new MPIO V10 is now available in its official website at the price of 228k Won (approx US$230) for 4GB version and 268k Won (approx US$270) for 8GB version.

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