This sweet looking PMP bears the strange patriotic name of “United States X900″. Probably because they know it will be a big hit here in the U.S. It’s a PMP/gaming combo that looks promising. The large 4.3 inch 480×272-pixel TFT screen plays AVI, MPEG4, MP3, WMA, FLAC. The most obvious and coolest feature is the attachable game pad that looks ultra comfortable and comes complete with 2 thumb operable joysticks.

You can even add GPS, when you aren’t playing games with it. SD cards up to 4GB can be used and it features an e-Book reader and FM tuner as well. Kind of like a PSP but perhaps a bit cooler in design.

Occasionally you see a PMP that actually stands out from the crowd. This one definitely falls into that category. The WindTouch V80 is a PDA/PMP that runs on Windows CE 6.0. It comes with a 1.3-megapixel camera, 2GB of internal memory and micro SD slot. It supports most file formats like: AVI , ASF, MPG, 3GP, MP4, FLV, MP3, WMA, WAV, ASF, FLAC, BMP, JPEG, GIF, TXT.

This one is a real looker. Sleek and dare I say it, seductive in design. The price tag of $95 is not bad either. They did a great job of making this one stand out from the crowd.

ZVUE, a maker of low cost portable media and digital audio players, today unveiled a thumb-drive style player which uses flash memory. The new ZVUE ZP3 is available in a 512 MB configuration.

The ZVUE ZP3 is capable of holding upwards of 125 songs in MP3 format. It comes preloaded with 30 top music hits of the year and is also capable of playing WMA music, including DRM subscription music. It is loaded through Windows Media Player and connects to a computer via USB.

Cowon America is out today with another portable media player to throw on your holiday wish list. The new Cowon A3 is available in 30GB and 60GB configurations for around $350 and $400 respectively.

The Cowon A3 is a very typical portable media player which offers versatility in the number of functions it offers and media formats it supports. It sports a four-inch widescreen display and weighs under 10 ounces. It can record directly from a TV, DVD player or camcorder and can decode HD video for playback on its display. Battery life is estimated at nine hours for audio and seven hours for video.

One common compliant of flash-based portable media players is they don’t have enough storage for all of your media files. Creative is today challenging that issue by globally releasing a new 32GB version of its Zen player. It will price for around $330.

This 32GB Zen from Creative will reportedly be the world’s first flash memory based PMP of this size. Creative says it will be capable of holding up to 8,000 songs, 110 hours of video or thousands of photos. It offers up a 2.5-inch color screen for viewing and will let you get up to 30 hours of music or 5 hours of video playback before needing a recharge.

Cowon looks like it has finally begun American sales of a long awaited portable media player with wireless capabilities. The new Cowon Q5W comes in 40GB and 60GB hard drive sizes, priced at around $550 and $600 respectively.

The Cowon Q5W offers up a five-inch touchscreen display as its primary user interface. It offers both 802.11 wireless and Bluetooth wireless support and can playback many audio (MP3, WMA, ASF, OGG, WAV, FLAC, APE, MPC) and video (AVI, ASF, WMV, MPG, OGM) file formats as well as a bunch of photo (JPG, BMP, PNG, NEF(Nikon RAW file) up to 10MB) types also. It works over a USB 2.0 connection for data transfers and has audio/video playback times of 13/7 hours respectively.

Slacker, an Internet radio company which lets you enjoy music culled from over 100 professionally programmed stations, rolled out its premium pay for service today. As part of that roll out it also debuted its portable music player. The new Slacker Portable Player is available in several storage sizes for pricing ranging from around $200 to $300.

The Slacker Portable Player allows you to access Slacker’s library of music drawn from all of the major record labels and thousands of independent record labels via wireless Internet or USB. It allows you to refresh the personalized stations you’ve created based on your music tastes while letting you check out associated artist profiles, album reviews and cover art on the 4″ color display.

How big of a Target fan are you? Enough to carry around a MP3 player which sports the well known bullseye logo? If so you’ll want to get your hands on this new Creative Zen Stone Plus for sale only through the retailer for around $70.

The Creative Zen Stone Plus (Target Edition) has a red body design accented by a white control button. Other than that you’ve got a pretty standard player here from the Creative family of products - features include 2GB of storage for around 500 songs, MP3/WMA playback and an OLED screen.

This PMP is hard to handle…Mostly because of the awkward and ugly handle built into it. They wanted to help you lug around the 2-pound weight load. I guess the 7″ screen didn’t help. It also sports an integrated DVB-T mobile TV tuner and a built-in speaker.

Didn’t they talk to other manufacturers? Don’t they know that people are thinking smaller and lighter these days? Then again, maybe they wanted to stand out. Mission accomplished guys. There doesn’t seem to be any word on what kind of storage you can expect and no word on pricing.

This PMP player from Kinwei appears to have a very nice, clean design but how it’s used we’re just not sure. It sports a 2.4-inch TFT display and allows you to view E-books, JPG, GIF and BMP images, MP1, MP2, MP3 and WMA music files and the ever-obscure TV/AWV video formats. It also has a built-in FM tuner, seven preset EQ modes, a rechargeable battery and a capacity of 2GB. The product details list a touch pad for interaction but aside from that the player appears to have no buttons, dials, switches, cool blue lights and not even any branding. We still think it looks pretty cool, however. No price was readily available and it comes in the shown color of black or white.

Microsoft said today it is launching a specially branded, limited edition Zune “produced in collaboration with Latin Grammy-nominated artists Wisin y Yandel.” This particular Zune will price around $200 and is for sale exclusively through Wal-Mart.

The Wisin y Yandel Zune is black, stylized and comes in in customized Wisin y Yandel packaging. It sports a 30 GB hard drive pre-loaded with the new Wisin y Yandel 19-track album, “Wisin vs. Yandel: Los Extraterrestres.” This portable media player has a three-inch color display and can store up to 7,500 songs, 25,000 pictures or 100 hours of video.

iRiver has recently launched another new player through their recently acquired Siren brand of products. September brought their first with the DP250 and now they have released a slightly higher-end sibling called the Siren DP350. Unfortunately these Siren units are only retailing in Japanl.

The DP350 features a 1.8-inch LCD and uses it to show MPEG-4 video and still photos. It also supports audio of MP3, WMA, AAC and OGG. It also houses an FM tuner and direct in-line recording. An internal battery brings it 18 hours of music playback or 5 hours of video playback. It measures only 73.2×41×14.6mm which is a little smaller than a standard deck of cards and appears to have a pretty nice graphical interface navigated by buttons below the screen.

Two new PMPs by Energy Sistem are now available in Europe. Meet the the Inngenio 4000 DUET HDP M-EX and the Inngenio 5000 HDP M-EX right and bottom respectively. The 4000 model has a smaller 2.8-inch QVGA TFT LCD display compared to the 5000’s 3.5 inch, but exceeds the storage capacity of the 5000 with a whopping 6GB via miniSD in contrast to 2GB SD capacity of its counterpart.

The units understand many common formats including MPEG4, MP3, WMA, WAV and views JPG, BMP, TXT and in addition the Inngenio 4000 plays XVid and posesses an FM Tuner making it seem to be a higher end model except for screen size. The 4000 will fetch about $220 USD while the other is priced at $170 USD.

Sony has recently announced the release of a new Walkman for portable media loving folks in Japan which takes advantage of the area’s 1seg live television broadcast. The Walkman NW-A910 can not only pick up the 1seg signal but it can record video content directly to the player and you can schedule as many as 10 programs up to a month in advance for a total of 100 hours of recorded TV. Now that’s cool.

The new Walkman also sports an FM tuner, has the ability to record and encode your CD’s all inside the player and comes with some noise canceling headphones. All this in three different models with capacities of 4GB, 8GB or 16GB. It’s just hard not to like this little PMP.

Available Oct 19th, the new addition to the Gigabeat line is based on the Windows Mobile operating system and comes in three color styles: navy, gold and black. Toshiba is treading water with the functionality included in this 11.5×75×14.2mm / 168g package though.

The V41 boasts 4GB of internal memory and is expandable with SD or SDHC cards (up to 8GB) for storing up to 99 shows or 20 hours of streaming 1Seg TV. Based on Windows Mobile, the unit’s video playback is limited to WMV and JPEG images but plays MP3, WAV, and WMA/WMA-9 audio formats.