Hasta La Gadget!

Newsmy (or Newman, as it were) may not be a household name here in the States, but it’s good for pumping out new portable media players at a decent clip over in the Far East. Thankfully, there’s this amazing invention called the “internet,” which essentially enables folks all over the world to trade currency for product. For those interested in the ho hum player shown above — which features a 4.3-inch display (480 x 272), 720p TV output, an absurd list of supported file formats and 16GB of internal storage — it can be shipped your way for the intriguing price of $129.86. Oh, and did we mention that this thing can play “64 games?” Look out, iPod touch!

[Via PMP Today]

Filed under: Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Newsmy A11HD portable media player tries hard to be special originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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MSI’s been slinging out a healthy amount of laptops here lately, but evidently the outfit is looking to dabble once again in PMP land. The simplistic-yet-stylish MT-V656 boasts a 3-inch display, silver casing, video output, FM tuner, voice recorder, support for an undisclosed variety of games and the ability to handle just about every file format known to man. Oddly enough, it’s not clear if the screen is of the touch variety, but considering the dearth of buttons, we’re guessing it is. It should be available on the streets of Shanghai now for around $42, though make sure you budget for some sort of memory card — after all, 4GB only holds so many David Bowie / Rush mashups.

[Via PlayerBites]

Filed under: Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video

MSI takes a break to introduce 3-inch MT-V656 PMP originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Much like Sony’s PlayStation 3, Spark’s VTube clearly wasn’t designed to sit nicely in-between a 7.1-channel AV receiver and a cable set-top-box. Engineered in some backwoods lab about 30 kilometers south of Shenzhen, the so-called VTube looks to be a pretty standard media player outside of its unorthodox design. The unit packs HDMI / component / composite video outputs, an Ethernet jack and a Toslink optical audio output, and those who dig internal storage can slap a 2.5-inch HDD within to keep those old Office clips handy. Predictably, it also supports pretty much every file format known to man, and the built-in USB port ensures that you can add external storage if need be. It’ll only run you around $130, but the chances of seeing this on US soil are slim.

[Via Cloned In China]

Filed under: Home Entertainment

Spark’s egg-shaped VTube media player won’t fit neatly in your AV rack originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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How do you cook up the perfect KIRF product? Well, you take a well-loved device, say the Nokia N810, and start chopping off the things that made it a winner, like that oh-so-bulky QWERTY keyboard, until you get a device cheap enough to be sold as “the world’s first MID under $300.” The painfully unoriginal Inkia 500 — which isn’t even the first to rip off Nokia’s internet tablet — isn’t entirely without merit, as it comes with a 5-inch touchscreen plus a ULV Atom processor, and once you pony up for 3G and GPS options it might even be useful. All that’s holding it back now is the tiny issue that you can get a real N810 for the same price.

[Via Shanzai]

Filed under: Handhelds

Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXX: Inkia 500 is a mutated, hamstrung N810 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Still having doubts that an iPhone will ever come to China via legitimate means? Have a gander at this. According to the listing after the break, which was discovered on China’s State Radio Regulatory Commission (SRRC; basically the Chinese version of the FCC) website, we’re looking at a GSM / WCDMA cellphone complete with Bluetooth, an internal model number A1324, a little-known manufacturer called “Apple Inc.” and an approval date of May 7th, 2009. We’re also told that the certificate expires in five years, which should give China Unicom plenty of time to capitalize on its reported three-year deal to offer the phone in mainland China. So, all we need now is what’s we’ve needed for years: a handwritten note from El Jobs himself saying that this whole thing is more than some sick charade.

[Image courtesy of Sina, thanks Joe]

Update: Looks like this may be the first live look at a China Unicom iPhone 3G, complete with no WiFi to speak of.

Continue reading China Unicom’s iPhone gets regulatory approval, pictured

Filed under: Cellphones

China Unicom’s iPhone gets regulatory approval, pictured originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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