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Memorex has unveiled its first touch screen Portable Media Player (PMP) called TouchMP. It’s a stylish portable digital entertainer that offers easy to use functions and quality sound and video. The main attraction of the TouchMP is its intuitive touch screen that makes the UI very interesting and interactive.

The TouchMP sports a gigantic 8GB of memory that can hold thousands of songs, photos and videos. So, if you are seriously hunting for a great travel companion to enjoy and share digital files with, then the TouchMP is the ideal portable gadget. It has got a 2.8-inch QVGA colour touch screen LCD with a resolution of 320×240 pixels. It supports full-screen photo viewing and large album art. The user interface is totally customisable and you can shift from landscape to portrait mode and vice versa anytime you want. It is surprisingly well done for a company that is known for manufacturing USB sticks, memory cards, and external hard drives like the Memorex TravelDrive 2007 8GB. Furthermore, the TouchMP PMP can play WMV, MPEG-4 and AVI video files. For audio you can load it with MP3, WMA and WAV files and view JPEG images on it. A software is also supplied along with the base unit that can be used to convert other file formats to the one that the TouchMP supports.

Jessica Walton, Memorex global brand director commented, “The TouchMP digital media player puts entertainment and favourite memories at your fingertips, packing tremendous value into this little touch screen device. The Memorex TouchMP is a great way to store and share photos and videos when visiting friends and family, or to sit back and enjoy your own personal playlist. A custom user interface makes it easy to navigate and quickly enjoy media files no matter what type of content you are playing.”

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The Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2009 is making many consumers’ dreams come true this year. You think of anything from thin LCD displays, to ultra-portable computing devices, to portable media players that are much more potent than their predecessors and you will find it at the show. Every company has got something amazing that shines in the electronics world and Samsung is no exception to this.

The company has unveiled its new Slick P3 Media Player that is a successor of the popular Samsung YP-P2J player. The main enhancements are with regards to the touch interface and acoustics. The company has integrated its EmoTrue technology in the slick P3. This offers the users an intuitive touch screen that responds to the touch operations in a unique way. You access any option by tapping your fingers and it will give you a sensational feedback that you will feel on your finger. This confirms that the device has received the command properly. Moreover, the sensational feedbacks are not always same. The Slick P3 will give different types of physical reactions for different gestures such as tapping a button once, holding down the finger on it, swiping the finger etc.

The display size is 3 inches and screen renders stunning graphics. The player also incorporates the Samsung’s DNSe 3.0 sound enhancement quality feature that assures unprecedented listening experience. Slick P3 is a video friendly device and has got 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio. Besides this, it also features a photo album, voice recorder and FM radio. It will come in 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB storage capacities.

The Cowon S9 is a marvellous portable media player. It features an elegant design and curved body, which feels good while holding the device in your hand. The Titanium/Black face also adds to its grace. The Cowon S9 offers a 3.3-inch AMOLED touch screen display that can produce 16 million colours at a resolution of 480x 272 pixels. The GUI (Graphical User Interface) sports an intuitive touch screen and easy to use menus. The Cowon S9 is so easy to use that you can get hold of it in just few hours.

This portable media player sounds good as well as renders excellent video. Its advanced video functionality supports transcoding-free playback of most of the DVD-quality MPEG-4 videos. For enhancing the sound effects the JetEffect 2.0 audio technology has been integrated with this PMP. To further improve and customize the stereo sound you can also use the improved EQ filter and BBE+ which offers upgraded BBE, Mach3Bass, 3D Surround and MP Enhance audio processing. The Cowon S9 can be used with AVI and WMV videos and also supports codecs for Xvid, SP/ASP and WMV9 SP/MP. On the audio part, it is fully compliant with MP3, WMA, FLAC, OGG, WAV and APE files. Additional goodies include video recorder with line in, photo viewer, text viewer, FM radio, calculator and flash player.

Cowon S9 also supports easy file transfer as it can be used in a Bluetooth 2.0(with A2DP) environment. It is available in 8GB and 16GB capacities and has an estimated battery run-time of 11 hours for video and 55 hours for audio.

Creative, a world leading manufacturer of top notch acoustic products and hi-fi MP3 players, is continuously concentrating on improving its products. The Zen X-Fi MP3 player is one of Creative’s finest creations in that it not only offers quality music listening, but also looks trendy and stylish. It’s a Wi-Fi enabled portable music player that hosts loads of mind blowing functions.

The Creative Zen X-Fi has got 2.5 inches of display that is capable of rendering pleasing graphics and videos at a resolution up to 240 X 320 pixels with 16 million vivid colours. Unlike its predecessors, the Creative Labs Zen X-Fi has got a mobile phone like form factor. Due to this it’s very easy to operate. Besides the screen, it has got a multifunctional keypad that can be used to navigate through the menu and manage the data without any hassles. You can seamlessly enjoy JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PNG, AAC, Audible, MP3, WMA, WAV, DIVX, MPEG-4, Motion-JPEG, WMV and Xvid files on it. So you can easily take a myriad of digital files along with you.

The biggest advantage of having Creative X-Fi MP3 player is that you can connect to any WLAN. It also features a voice recorder, FM-radio and a built-in speaker and is available in 8GB, 16 GB and 32 GB storage capacities. If you need more then you can expand the storage space via SD card.

The Mvix MV-2500U is a feature rich portable media player that not only sounds great, but also offers users an easy way to organise their audio, video and photos. It allows the users to carry their complete multimedia collection along with them. Acting as a portable multimedia hub, the Mvix MV-2500U is a hard drive based device that packs an enormous amount of data into its compact body. You can connect it to the home cinema system, projector or to the TV.

The Mvix MV-2500U supports multiple file formats including MPEG1, AVI, MPEG2, DVD, ISO, XviD, MPEG4, DivX 3.11, 4x, 5x, JPEG, JPG, MP3, MP2, AC3, DTS, M3U, WMA and OGG. It clearly covers almost every media file available in the market, allowing it to easily rival other big name portable media players, such as the Sony NWZ-S639F, but obviously with a far large storage capacity . The Mvix MV-2500U is quite simply an all in one and one in all device. Its ergonomics are good too. The Mvix MV-2500U measures 136 x 80 x 52 mm and weighs only 270 gms. This versatile device is easy to carry and features user friendly interface. The sound reproduction is excellent and the video quality is awesome as it offers both component and composite video output at 1280 x 720p and 1920 x 1080i respectively.

This PMP supports 2.5 inch IDE (P-ATA) hard disk drives up to 250 GB. With its Plug n Play USB interface you can simply drag and drop data from the PC.

Smart, sleek and a good performer, that’s how the LG T80 MP3 player can be defined. It is an awesome music machine, which is not only very portable, but also potent enough to deliver rich sound quality and stunning graphics. Looks wise it is more attractive and appealing than its predecessors. If you are seriously hunting for a good portable media player (PMP) then you need to take a closer look at this one.

The LG T80 has got a glossy finish. Its front panel mainly consists of a large 3 inch 260k colour touchscreen that can work at a resolution of 420×240 pixels. Few small and sleek buttons are also positioned below the screen that provides basic functions. The rest of the operations can be handled via tapping the TFT touchscreen. The LG T80 looks like the Apple iPhone but it’s much lighter than it. You can enjoy MPEG, MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV and ASF files on T80. It also supports JPEG and TXT files. The special feature of this PMP is its DVB-T function that enables the user to watch television on it. However, for this there must be a TV signal nearby. This portable media player offers 4GB of storage space. It can accommodate loads of videos, photos, audio and text files. You will rarely feel to flush the old data. With LG T80 you will get a headset, USB data cable, manual and LG Media Centre software. If you lucky enough to find a TV signal then you ca watch TV in a much better quality as compared to the legacy analog television sets.

Coming to the sound quality, the LG T80 is a real hunk. It offers an equalizer and 3D sound option that can be used to customize the acoustics as per your taste. You can enjoy about 5.5 hours of video playback and 3 hours of TV on a single charge.

iRiver’s Lplayer comes closely following the disappointing performance of the E100. Released this year in the UK market, this device is designed well and small in size.

The moment you look at the MP3 player, the first thought that comes to your mind is how is it possible without controls? The dimensions of the iRiver L-Player 8GB are just 60×43x13mm. The tiny screen measures just two inches and 320×240 pixels. In fact, there is hardly any space left when you subtract the size of the screen.

Now, we come to the interesting part. Controls can be accessed by pushing down one of the four screen edges. The screen is in fact, skillfully mounted on top of the pressure pad which is four-way. Even the weight of the device competes with some of the lightest models in the market.

Conventional on/off switch can be found at the bottom of the device. Volume control is interestingly featured as a key lock slider at the back. The iRiver Lplayer 8GB MP3 player is ideal for everyday use. In order to protect the player from accidental activation due to bumps and knocks, the command buttons have to be given a hard push for the arrow flash accepting the command to appear on the screen.

You can actually zip around song lists and menus effortlessly once you become adept at the controls. This player supports various formats, as with all iRiver devices including WMA, MP3, ASF, Ogg, Flac, etc for audio and WMV, MPEG4 and Xvid for video.

Overall, this is undoubtedly one of the most interesting MP3 players currently on the market.