iriver’s SPINN is one of the best designed PMP (portable media player) that I have seen. It has a beautiful external casing with a unique control method: a cylinder you twirl; push down the cylindar and you have a click. The SPINN also has a 3.3″ AMOLED (Active Matrix OLED) that provides a visual experience [...]

iriver wave Specifications
Display: 3″ (76.2mm) Touch TFT LCD
Pixel Format: 480 x 272
Number of Colors: 260,000
Storage: 4GB Flash
Connectivity: WiFi (802.11b/g), USB 2.0
Audio Support: MPEG 1/2/2.5 Layer 3, WMA, OGG
Video Support: WMA9, MPEG4 (SP, H.264)
Other: Flash Lite 2.0.2, JPEG, TXT
Dimensions: 110.5 x 52.5 x 15.5mm

iriver is getting into the “smartphone” market. The company’s ‘wave’ looks fantastic. The [...]

Cowon S9 Specifications
Display: 3.3″ Wide Active Matrix OLED (AMOLED) with Touch
Pixel Format: 480 x 272
Connectivity: T-DMB, Bluetooth, FM Radio, TV-out
Other: Accelerometer
Battery: 40 hours (music)

Cowon’s S9 is sexy. Pure and simple (figuratively and literally). The S9 is a portable multimedia player (PMP) that sports a 3.3″ active matrix OLED display with touch. The 3.3″ AMOLED display [...]

iPod nano Specifications
Display: 2″ TFT LCD with Blue-White LED Backlight
Pixel Format: 240 x 320 (portrait) 
Price: US$149 (8GB), US$199 (16GB) 

Apple almost always does a fantastic job of bringing together color, music and design into a seemless presentation and an almost ethereal experience. The new iPod nano is a case in point. Nine different colors. An iconic [...]

Cowon P5 Specifications
Display: 5″ Wide Touch Haptic TFT LCD
Pixel Format: 800 x 480
Contrast Ratio: 450:1
Brightness: 420 cd/m2
CPU: 700MHz RMI Alchemy AU1250
HDD: 60GB or 80GB 1.8″ (FAT32 File System), 76Mbps Write, 64Mbps Read
Memory: 256MB mDOC-H3, 128MB DDR2 SDRAM
Connectivity: USB, USB Host, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR and A2DP and AVRCP, Component, S-Video, Composite, WiFi (via USB dongle)
Tuner: [...]

Sony VAIO BZ Specifications
Display: 15.4″ Wide TFT LCD with LED Backlight
Aspect Ratio: 16:10
Chipset: Centrino 2
RAM: Up to 4GB RAM
HDD: 320GB (Shock Protected)
Optical: DVD+R
Storage: Multicard Reader
Connectivity: USB (3), FireWire
Other: Magnesium Alloy Case, FreshStart (no crapware), Energy Star 4.0, EPEAT Silver, Spill Resistant Keyboard
Weight: 6lbs
Availability: Now
Price: Starts at around $1000
Sony’s new VAIO BZ buxiness-class notebook PCs look [...]

Updated 2008.06.27 8:34AM PST
A roundup of reviews, thanks to Engadget, and a lot more pictures. The Studio line of Dell’s new pseudo-XPS notebooks are said to be slightly thicker than XPS versions (that’s not good). But the design is there. But Centrino 2 is just around the corner. Choices. But if you dig the design [...]

VOODOO’s Envy 133 Specifications
Display: 13.3″ TFT LCD with LED Backlight (flush glass)
Pixel Format: 1280 x 800
GPU: Intel GMA X3100
CPU: 1.6GHz (SP7500) or 1.8GHz (SP7700) Intel Core 2 Duo, 4MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB
CPU Power Consumption: 20W
Storage: SSD, HD
Optical: External
Connectivity: USB 2.0, USB/eSATA, Ethernet (on power brick)
OS: Microsoft Vista
Thickness: 0.70″
Battery: Removeable
Chassis: Carbon fiber (black, custom)
Other: Ambient [...]

RAmos iclick Specifications
Display: 3.0″ Touch
Pixel Format: 400 x 240
Color: 26K
Storage: 4GB Flash
Audio Support: MP3, WMA
Video Support: FLAC, APE, AVI, RM, RMVB
Price: 599 Yuan (US$86)

Originally, RAmos was slated to unveil its V8, with a rather large 4.3″ LCD and 16GB of flash storage. Instead, what came out was the RAmos iclick. The iclick is smaller sporting [...]

TG Sambo PHOLIC CP-1000
Display: 4.8″ Touch (12.2cm)
Pixel Format: 800 x 480
CPU: 700MHz RMI AU 1250
Storage: 16GB SSD
External Storage: N/A
RAM: 128MB
Tuner: T-DMB
Connectivity: WiFi, USB (host mode)
OS: Windows CE 5.0
Video Support: MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, WMV, ASF, DivX 3.11/4x/5x, Xvid 1.0
Audio Support: MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG
Other: Electronic Dictionary
Battery: 1900mA, 3 1/2 hours (video playback)
Dimension: 15.7mm thick
Weight: 200g
Price: KRW477,000

TG [...]