The new iRiver NV will be available for the Korean market soon and has just about everything you could want in a PMP. It sports a 7 inch LED display at 840 x 480, T-DMB television, GPS, FM transmitter, 1.3 megapixel camera, 2 SD card slots, a sexy remote control and supports playback of MP3, WMA, OGG, ASF, WMV, MPG, Xvid and H.264 file formats. The device doesn’t look to shabby, either.

The multiple SD card slots could possibly be for both storing media and storing map data separately, and there’s no reason the on-board digital camera could not geo-tag your photos, either. No word on price or if the iRiver NV is coming anyone’s way outside of Korea but this is certainly one to watch for.

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Here’s an MP3 player that breaks from the mainstream mold with a retro-look and analog-like controls. The design of the MPIO FL500 was inspired by the looks of an electric guitar which gives it the triangle design and big silver metal knobs.

Volume is controlled with a large dial at the top, the mode is changed with a large selector switch and there’s a metal screw that can be removed to use with a necklace or replaced to attach a metal belt clip. The player supports MP3, WMA, and ASF file playback along with an FM tuner and voice recording. Tracks and stations are displayed in a 3-line LCD display that fades to black to blend into the players frame and shows itself when powered up.

The MPIO FL500 comes in sizes of 512MB, 1GB and 2GB and connects to a PC or Mac …

ARCHOS recently announced the launch of their new Gen 5 lineup of personal media players leading out with the ARCHOS 605 WiFi as an upgrade to the 604 WiFi model featuring higher quality screen resolution and easier access media content. It features a higher resolution 800 x 480 4.3 inch touch screen, WiFi connectivity and comes in sizes of 4GB flash with an SD card slot or drive capacities of 30GB, 80GB or 160GB.

ARCHOS takes more advantage of the WiFi capabilities with the Gen 5 versions through a couple of new services. On the 605 WiFi users can access the ARCHOS TV Program Guide to view show times and set the device to act as a DVR and record programs with a single touch. The DVR capabilities still unfortunately require a separate base station to make it all possible.

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The Becker Vision Pro 7985 media player boasts a touchscreen interface along with DVD playback claimed by Becker to be the first of its kind in portable media players. The 7″ 16:9 TFT display will show up to four hours of continuous DVD playback, static images and MPEG-1 to MPEG-4, DIV-X, XVID, AVI and SVCD video which all can be played on your big screen as well with some A/V out jacks. A/V in lets you also watch and listen from other output devices such as a camcorder.

MP3 audio and the videos can be played back through media on an SD card, Memory Stick or a USB thumb drive along with a DVD or CD. The Vision Pro can also pick up DVB TV and radio stations with a built in tuner, and it also sports some built in speakers and a …

Cowan has launched a new media player with some features not unlike many of the other MP3 players on the market, but the 60 hours of continuous music playback helps the iAudio 7 stand out from the crowd.

The sleek glossy look and inset buttons on the face don’t hurt, either. For all that music playback time it supports an array of formats which consist of AAC, FLAC, OGG, MP3, WMA and WAV. It will also play videos (XviD) that can be viewed on the 1.3″ LCD, which alternatively will show navigation, current track, mode, time, etc. Like many other players it also houses an FM tuner and supports voice recording.

The iAudio 7 storage has been upgraded from its predecessor to Flash-based memory instead of a hard drive and comes in capacities of 4GB ($182) and 8GB ($246). …

Samsung launched the T9+ media player named the “Third Story” which is the 3rd generation of the T9 media player. The previous “stories” of the T9 brought Bluetooth connectivity for wireless headsets and Bluetooth enabled mobile phones but this version adds to the multi-device interaction with multi-player gaming.

The T9+ is available only in Korea for now and has five games already available that T9+ owners can play against each other from up to 30 feet away. It also holds to its original functionality by playing MP3 and WMA music files, MPEG4 video, static images and houses an FM tuner and recorder. The T9+ comes in capacities of 2GB, 4GB and 8GB.

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Should your requirements in a media player include thin and stylish, competitive specs, large capacity, a decent price and not an iPod then you may have found your perfect solution. Meizu’s M6 SE is only 7mm thick (only half a mm more than the iPod nano), has an impressive 8GB Flash capacity and runs for only $130.

It sports a nice 2.41″ QVGA display screen and supports playback of MP3, WAV, OGG audio and MPEG4, MPEG2, WMV9, H.263/264, and RM(VB) and video. You can also use a TV out jack to push those movies to your television at a 720 x 480 resolution. The battery will support up to 30 hours of music playback or 5 hours of video. The Meizu M6 SE also has a built-in FM tuner.

Unfortunately we’re going to have to wait a little while for this one since they …

Blue Raven and unveiled a new portable media player featuring a 7″ display and built-in, timed recording capabilities making it a handy pocket-sized DVR. The Mediamate 7080 is one of two new 7000 series portable media players released today by the company, differing only in capacity.

It has an 80GB internal HDD to record up to 100 hours of DVD-quality video, and can do so direct into the device. By simply connecting the MediaMate directly to your media source such as a TV or DVD player with some AV cables it can record without any type of docking device. With the timer you can then set the time that you want to recording to stop and start. The media player can also record voice, play music and view photos.

It houses has a multi-card reader for SD, …

BLU:sens has released a new tiny media player called the BLU:sens P27. The media files the P27 is able to play are nothing too special, supporting videos in AVI and MPEG formats, MP3 music files and can display JPEG images.

Where this little PMP starts to get more interesting is it’s dimensions. It crams a 2.4 inch, 260,000 color display into a frame that measures 2.56″ wide, 1.97″ tall and 0.39″ thick. Inside this small frame is also housed a built-in speaker, a voice-recording microphone and a microSD card slot to expand the internal 1GB of storage. The BLU:sens P27 is also able to pick up FM radio and most likely record that too, although the spec’s are sparse.

The P27 retails for about $121 (90 Euros) and is available now to the …

So you’re listening to the radio and hear a tune that you dig, but the station doesn’t tell you what the song’s title and artist are or you’ve got to switch off before finding out. Finally a solution has arrived from the engineers behind the Sony Ericsson W660 Walkman phone. Incorporating a feature called TrackID, the W660 can record a snippet of the tune, either via microphone or from the built-in FM radio, and then you can send it off to the Gracenote Mobile MusicID database. There someone will ID the track and relay back to your phone the name of the artist and album it’s from. Smooth!

The W660 stores up to 470 songs in eAAC+ format on the 512 MB that it comes with, but you can expand that up to 1 GB if you want more tunage. A 2.0 megapixel camera with …

Japan has had mobile digital television for almost a year now but it still hasn’t taken off due to technical obstacles, like poor carrier coverage and practically none on rapid speed transportation like Japan’s many train systems.

Nevertheless, that hasn’t prevented Japanese tech companies from bundling the 1seg service into just about every portable gadget they can think of, from cellphones to PMPs to GPS units. Now Sony wants to directly tackle the market by introducing the XDV-100 to consumers on April 10, hoping against hope that there’s still a market out there.

The screen is 2.8-inches wide and offers 320 x 340 rez, plus you also get a built-in AM/FM tuner, ear buds and a docking cradle for recharging for your 40,000 yen (about $330 of our Yankee bucks.) If the 1seg service can be beefed up …

Wolverine data has released a new media player to their ESP line with a whopping 160GB capacity. You can do the math on this one, but at a quick glance we’re talking tens of thousands of MP3 files or hundreds of hours of video all on the portable device.

The Wolverine ESP can download FM radio, TV programs, and DVDs and play them back on a television, computer and of course right on the media player itself through the 3.6″ LCD. Files from memory cards can also easily be transferred into the device through a built-in 7 in 1 card reader.

The ESP supports MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, AAC (MP4-audio), CDA, MPEG-1, MPEG-4, WMV9 and Xvid as well as viewing JPEG, Bitmap, TIFF and RAW image files. Actual dimensions of the portable player are 5.3″x2.8″x0.9″ in. (W x …

BLU:sens is unveiling an MP3 player called the G14 which has some significant features that should bring it a little attention in the PMP world. What makes this player extra special is that the attention is not due to them copying someone else’s design.

The BLU:sens G14 supports WiFi and has no DRM. Individually these two items have their own significance, but combined they equate to wireless sharing of MP3 files between players without restrictions. This will no doubt catch the eye of the Microsoft Zune team, where the Zune only allows the sharing of approved record labels.

The overall look and additional features of the G14 aren’t too shabby either, as it supports Bluetooth along with the WiFi, as well as DivX, MP3, WMA and OGG and it sports a 2 inch 256K color display. …