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Set in stone for March, eh? Looks like that ship date slipped just a wee bit. iLuv‘s curious i1166 — which plays back an array of multimedia from an array of sources on its 9-inch LCD — is now slated to ship to the US next month. Originally introduced at CES, the $269.99 device can play back content stored on an iPod, DVD, SD / MMC card or USB drive, though the omission of a screen resolution gives us serious pause. Other specs include twin 3.5 millimeter headphone jacks, an “iPod-friendly” user interface and a bundled remote, none of which justify the lofty asking price in our humble eyes. You and your wallet can feel free to disagree in around a fortnight, though.

Filed under: Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video

iLuv’s $270 i1166 portable multimedia player finally shipping next month originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Poor Zipit. As a $149.99 instant messenger client nobody got particularly excited about you. Even now, as a $38 IM client you aren’t exactly in high demand — but as a $38 portable Linux machine, well, that’s another story altogether. The machines have been tweaked before, but the latest and greatest is this hack from Hunter Davis, who can turn a virgin Zipit Z2 into a full-featured Linux machine in under five minutes, as shown in the video below. To do the same all you need is Hunter’s hacked firmware and a microSD card to throw it onto. Once completely tweaked you’ll get full mouse support, WiFi connectivity, and even audio output so that you can rock some tunes on the go — though the command-line interface won’t make it the most compelling PMP ever. With only a 300MHz processor and 32MB of RAM we wouldn’t go compiling our COMP-SCI 101 homework on here, but this little firmware refresh certainly makes for a tastier experience than before.

[Via lilputing]

Continue reading $38 Zipit Wireless Messenger receives Linux injection, becomes $38 netbook

Filed under: Laptops

$38 Zipit Wireless Messenger receives Linux injection, becomes $38 netbook originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While penning our Zune HD review, we were initially quite baffled by our inability to do much of anything with it after installing Microsoft’s newest firmware update. Our concern had been properly kiboshed by assurances from the company that we’d gotten a fluke unit… and by the properly working replacement we received to finish the review with. Now, however, it seems as if we weren’t alone in our glass cage of emotion, with gaggles of irate Zune HD users emerging from the woodwork in order to express their disappointment online. Hop on past the break for a video of the issues we were having, and if you’re seeing something eerily similar on your own device, drop a vote / comment below.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Continue reading Poll: Has your Zune HD screen been unresponsive?

Filed under: Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Poll: Has your Zune HD screen been unresponsive? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iriver‘s NV mini has been out and about for nearly a full year now, so it makes sense to think that some sort of successor was just about ready to pop. Sure enough, a next-gen version (of sorts) has been revealed, with the NV mini bike edition (₩188,000; $156) looking to help those out there who suck it up and bike to work / school / etcetera rather than hailing a cab. The 3.5-inch touchscreen (320 x 240) is unchanged in terms of size, but the UI has been tweaked to provide larger glimpses at what’s most important. It’s also designed to respond to gloved fingers, and the “exercise” mode keeps track of distance traveled, speed, time traveled and calories burned. Other specs include an SDHC card slot, 3.5 millimeter headphone socket and Windows CE 5.0 underneath, with an on sale date of “right now” in South Korea.

[Via Slashgear]

Filed under: GPS

iriver NV mini bike edition routes two-wheeled warriors originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Looking for a PMP that outputs full 1080p video? Then you’ve no doubt noticed that your options are pretty limited, even from PMPs (and phones, for that matter) bold enough to call themselves “HD.” It looks like China’s Telcast could be about to swoop in and beat some of the bigger players to the punch, however, at least if its new T56 PMP actually delivers as promised. While it’s 5-inch screen doesn’t make it as portable as some may like, it does indeed supposedly boast full 1080p output from its HDMI port, or a standard 800 x 600 resolution on the screen itself. No word on storage just yet, unfortunately, but the rest of the specs seem to be fairly high-end across the board, including built-in GPS, an FM tuner, a memory card slot, and an “all-metal stamping process” — which appears to be an actual unibody-type enclosure. Of course, there’s no word on a price or release date either, so we could end up waiting a good long while for this one.

[Via thegadgetsite]

Filed under: Portable Audio

Telcast T56 PMP promises full 1080p output, unibody enclosure originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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