The Commodore name is making a comeback with this Gravel C200 handheld playing its part. The C200 media player features a 1.8″, 65k color OLED display, houses a speaker, WiFi and comes in capacities of 512MB, 1GB or 2GB. The device supports a nice broad range of media including MP3, WAV, WMA, MPEG 2, MPEG 4, DivX, XviD, WMV, JPEG, BMP, GIF and SRT & SUB subtitling.

The dimensions are 45mm x 80mm x 13mm and is available in one lonely color of grey, which seems fitting for its overall features. Data transfers happen via USB 2.0 and the battery promises to provide up to 18 hours of music playback or 2 hours of video and the whole thing retails for around $183 if you can find one at a location in Europe.

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Creative has recently rolled out with another capacity increase with the Zen V Plus, this time bringing it up to a whopping 16GB of Flash memory. The player itself doesn’t appear to have changed but this increased storage brings this already impressive media player a little further up in the world with twice the storage space available in an iPod. Currently the Zen V Plus at its 16GB capacity is only available in the Singapore area and is retailing for about $260, but like the previous versions we hope to see it in the North America area soon.

The Zen V Plus also comes in capacities of 1GB, 2GB and 4GB and measures only 2.7 x 1.7 x 0.6 inches, which is similar to the size of a Tic Tacs container. With its small size it still manages to support …

Transcend has a new player out going by the name of T.sonic 840, which boasts some pretty cool multimedia features along with a nice, solid look.

The player measures just 82mm long with a 1.8″ color TFT-LCD screen and sports a mirrored surface on a metal frame to give it a clean and sharp appearance. It supports a nice array of media types as well including MTV, JPG, BMP, MP3, WMA, WMA-DRM10, and WAV files. Music playback can be enhanced with an equalizer that has some presets or can be set custom and a full battery charge will bring you up to 30 continuous hours of playback time.

The T.sonic 840 also supports reading ebooks and houses an FM tuner and recording capabilities for both voice and the FM signal. It supports 13 different languages and has an A-B repeat feature commonly used …

We’ve seen a number of waterproof MP3 players come across our desks but a waterproof video player has been a little harder to come by. Chinavasion now has a Waterproof MP4 player (for lack of a better name) on the way that allows you to watch your videos in the tub, pool, lake or any other body of water you would like and keeps the video playing up to 3 meters under.

The LCD is a little on the small side at 1.8″ with a resolution of only 128×128. But in an effort to keep our glass half-full, the modest 1GB of memory can probably hold a decent amount of video at this resolution. Not only can you watch underwater but the Waterproof video player also comes with waterproof earphones to listen, too.

It also comes packaged with an armband and neckstrap, and …

Samsung has launched the i85 digital camera marking the 3rd model they’ve put out that not only lets you view the photos you’ve taken but can play back music and video media. The Samsung i85 is an 8 megapixel shooter with a large 3″ LCD screen to view a variety of media files including WAV, MP3, MPEG, AVI, MOV, WMV and ASF, however you can’t transfer these files directly and play them.

You’ll need to do a little conversion using some included software before they’ll actually play on the camera. The screen to watch the media stays fixed unlike the i85’s predecessor, and you can listen to your media through built-in stereo speakers or a standard headphone jack.

The physical size of this camera is something to take note of as well. At only .8″ thick it packs in a 5x …

There really isn’t too much information available about this latest mobile device from a Chinese company named Hacha, but it sure can hold its own compared to all the other iPhone copycats as of late. The super slim frame at 7.7mm and big 3 inch screen look great but we’d really like to know more about whats on the inside. The lack of buttons on the front lead us to believe it must be a touchscreen but we’ll just have to wait until Hacha makes an official release to find out more about the PC20. One more picture after the jump.

The SPO MP3 player from Korean company SAFA features a sporty look with a rubberized case and short lanyard giving it a good grip for using during running or other outdoor activities. It’s powered by one AAA battery which gives is 10 hours of continuous playback time.

It comes in a 1GB capacity with a standard set of features including a color OLED display, FM radio tuner and voice recording through a built-in microphone. It also connects to your computer via USB to transfer files or to simply act as a portable storage device. The SAFA SPO MP3 player retails in Korea for 49,000 won, or about $54. Even if you’re not interested in the MP3 player you should at least check out SAFA’s interesting website.

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These little MP3 players from Greenhouse Japan have a very familiar, iPod Shuffle-like look and feel to them with dimensions only slightly larger and a price tag that’s slightly smaller.

The Kansa SD MP3 player is about 2.2 inches at it’s widest point compared to the 1.62 inch width of the Shuffle. It has no display and has a similar circle-shaped navigation control on the front to run play, pause, volume and to go forward and back in tracks.

The player’s price tag is only $18 which is a great price for an MP3 player of this size but the catch is that it comes with no internal memory. In order to load and save any files you will need to get your own SD/SDHC card (up to 8GB) to keep all your media. This might be perceived as kind of a pain …

Sony has announced the Walkman NWD-B100 series of MP3 players that feature a direct USB connection to your computer to transfer music and files without the need for any cables. The stick-style MP3 player comes in sized of 1GB and 2GB adn has software that can scan through your directories looking for music files to grab, and monitors folders for new files added in.

The new Walkman can also connect directly to an audio system with a USB connection to record and encode music directly to the player. It also includes a built-in FM tuner and supports voice recording which are both are becoming very commonplace in MP3 players these days.

The NWD-B100 series Walkman’s come in colors of black or white with an LCD display that allows for navigation and song search by folder navigation or by the album, artist or song …

HandHeld Entertainment, despite making portable media player after portable media player over the years, continues to not be a name rolling off the tongue when one thinks of PMPs. HandHeld looks to be at it again though, announcing the beginning of sales today for its new Zvue 260.

The Zvue 260, like many other Zvue players, lacks internal memory. It instead uses external SD memory cards for storage of media content. This particular player, priced at less than $100, comes with a 1GB SD card out of the box. This card is enough to hold up to six hours of video or 500 MP3 songs.

No, you’re not looking at the latest Tamagotchi or Transformers toy; this is a portable audio player called Digital Olive and from Sofmap. It’s hard to get an idea of how small this one is from the photo but the Digital Olive measures 80mm x 140mm and weighs 275 grams, so it’s lightweight enough to pack around in your pocket. You can separate the two speakers if you like from the center unit where the main controls are located. The back of the center unit flips open and that’s where your SD card slides into (it also accepts USB connections too.) It takes 4 AA batteries to power up, supports MP3/WMA files and comes in pink, black, silver and blue color choices.

You’ll need to import this one from Japan when it starts to go on sale July 24th for 5,980 Yen (~$50 bucks.)

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Remember last month we told you all about Cowan’s cool little iAudio 7 music player? Well, we’ve got good news guys and gals: the iAudio is now shipping to customers from its Korean point of origin.

The silver highlighted 4 GB unit goes for $169.99 while the red one goes for $219.99, about $30 less than Cowan originally thought that they would go for. This little number can give you a whopping 60 hours of playback time, supports a whackload of audio formats (AAC, FLAC, OGG, MP3, WMA and WAV) and can even play XviD videos too on its 1.3-inch screen. And along with the built-in FM tuner, get this, it even acts as a voice recorder. Factor in the gadget’s nice look and this is an audio player that can grab an iUser’s eyeballs.

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Maybe they’re trying to go along with the open source movement or maybe they just ran out of creative ideas, but the folks that made this DAP decided to keep the situation simple and leave it up to the owners to put the player in whatever they want.

The Motz Music Box actual comes in a small stiff paper box with the player inside and has a controller and port protruding through some well-placed holes. On the bottom is a standard headphone jack that doubles as a USB connection adapter to transfer files onto the flimsy-looking device. On the back is a joystick type controller that moves the tracks forward and back and controls the volume by pressing up or down.

The music box houses 256MB of internal memory and supports MP3, OGG and WMA files. It measures a mere, not quite square 28mm x …

Remember those fuzzy little monitors/alarm clocks/WiFi widgets called Chumbys that we told you about oh so long ago? Well now we know when you can get your hands on one of these digital darlings: if you’re one of a privileged group of insiders you will be the owner of a Chumby this August but if you’re like us it will have to wait until the fall.

The unit will retail for $179.99 and be built with a 350 MHz ARM processor, 64 MB of RAM, a 320 x 240 3-inch screen, two USB slots, 2W speakers, a built-in microphone and accelerometer and come with a cleaner case. You will be able to customize your Chumby to perform a bunch of tasks like play videos, share photos or other fun things that you can download from the website and you will be able to modify …

In only less than two months after Creative released the Zen Stone MP3 player, they’ve now come out with an updated version called the Zen Stone Plus with some nice upgrades that could just as well have been on the first version they released in May.

The Zen Stone Plus player doubles the memory capacity from 1 to 2GB, adds a simple but much appreciated blue 64×64 OLED display, a stopwatch, voice recording, a built-in FM tuner with up to 32 presets, support for MP3, WMA, and Audible and 9.5 hours of continuous playback. I guess that last one is a .5 hour downgrade from the first Zen Stone but that’s probably to be expected with the added display.

It comes in a variety of colors including black, white, pink, blue, red and green. Pricing runs a little over $99 which is also an upgrade …