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For the unknowing, Apple started shipping its new iPod Touch late last week. This is the new iPod that’s essentially the iPhone sans the phone; prices start at $300 for 8GB and go up to $400 for 16GB. While they’re usually sold out as quickly as they come in, I managed to grab one and made a nice little review, at least I hope it’s nice. I’ll be covering the design and structure of the device itself, the UI and applications, music playback, video playback, and the iTunes WiFI store.

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OK, we’re calling it: this is the year of the sound bar, those long, slender speaker boxes that you see freakin’ everywhere. (Today alone we mentioned three companies introducing a total of six new models!) When our very own Brian Lam was at CES this past January, he heard the editor-in-chief of a top home Audiophile/Videophile magazine tell one of his lead sound gear writers “audio is just dead.” That kind of talk is not unexpected—it’s about as shocking as a French wine critic calling Australian shiraz “the end of civilization.” We all know sound… Continue Reading»

The best design of iRiver I have seen, iRiver NV feature a 7-inch, 800 x 480 screen, a 1.3-megapixel camera, a “dual core” processor, runs on Windows CE 5.0, and supports OGG, MP3, WMA, XviD, AVI, AAC, and so on for media playback. The player also boasts T-DMB, a SiRFStar III GPS chip, two SD slots, stereo speakers, and USB connectivity. But the most unhappy thing about ot is that it is only to be lauched new korea for 498,000 Won, or about $536. let us hope the launch it in… Continue Reading»

A surprisingly open move for a company that’s normally closed: Apple has just launched My iTunes, a series of embeddable widgets to post your iTunes purchases, iTunes reviews and iTunes favorites to your blog or profile page. The drawback: the widgets don’t actually play any music, they simply list artists and songs with links back to iTunes.

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It’s good to see SAFA back in the saddle after a long bout with silence, and the firm’s latest PMP looks mighty fine, we must say. Dubbed DIA — presumably in reference to the diamond shaped control pad — this diminutive device boasts a 2.4-inch color LCD, plays nice with audio and video files, comes with four mini games, and is available with up to 4GB of internal capacity. Moreover, users can load the rest of their files on a miniSD card, and there’s also a FM tuner and voice… Continue Reading»

Looks like Ford’s pricing the Sync extensible automotive media platform right in line with most other DAP / Bluetooth integration solutions: Dearborn announced today that the system will be a $395 option on new Focus, Edge, and Lincoln MKX vehicles starting this fall. Ford also said that Sync will be coming to nine other vehicles by 2008, but honestly, we’re not going to be satisfied on the carputer tip until we get Turbo Boost and a sweeping red scanner light… Continue Reading»

It’s been a tick since we’ve seen any randomness from Boynq’s labs, but it looks like the firm has worked up quite a number of design-centric speaker stations, iPod sound systems, and superfluous USB-related gizmos of late. Among the standouts are the iCube II (pictured), which sports ten-watts of amplification, an iPod docking port, line-in, dedicated treble / bass controls, and a rather sexy look, too. Additionally, the tooth-shaped Sabre operates much like the aforementioned device but touts twice the wattage and a video output, and the USB-powered Alibi webcam… Continue Reading»