iriver has not updated its P series of large-screen portable media players in quite some time, so you are likely as surprised as we are that this five-incher has shown up on the company’s Russian site. With a battery life of up to nine hours of video and 40 hours of audio to boot.

The P8 comes in 8GB and 16GB sizes, sports a microSD slot, and an HDMI port for pushing HD content to a TV. We have no idea if it will ever land on American shores or how much it will cost when it does, but we like what we see.

Remember the Galaxy Player? (otherwise known as Galaxy S WiFi). It’s basically a Galaxy S phone without the 3G and calling functionality. You still get Android 2.2 and what you have is a media player or shrunken tablet.

Well, both the 4-inch Galaxy Player 4 and the 5-inch Galaxy Player 5 will be headed to the US this spring. Samsung isn’t talking exact timing or pricing yet though. This player is upgradable to Android 2.3, with full Market access and will be headed to the US sometime soon.

If you are drooling over the new Samsung Galaxy S WiFi PMP, we now have the specifications on these two new media players in the Galaxy S line. The two models are the Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 and the Galaxy S WiFi 4.0.

The Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 has a 5 inch WVGA TFT LCD display, a 1GHz processor, plus a 5.0 megapixel camera with an LED flash, and a VGA camera on the front for your video chat needs. There’s also FM Radio, a voice recorder, an accelerometer, GPS, a digital compass and 802.11 b/g/n Wifi, plus Bluetooth 3.0.

iRiver’s next generation portable media players has been unveiled. Made for the Korean market, the U100 features a 3.1-inch, 320×480 touch screen, and built-in memory from 4GB, 8GB and 16GB sizes. The device comes in a several colors, including black, green, pink, black with pink accents and black with green accents.

Other features include Wi-Fi, a microSDHC slot, an FM Tuner and broad file format support for audio, photos and video. It also supports playing 720p video, though as you might expect, the display limits the output. It is sure to be trendy in Korea.

Samsung is going crazy naming even more devices Galaxy. The latest is the Galaxy Player 50 which is a portable media player. It’s powered by Android 2.1 and comes with a 3.2-inch display. It will handle DivX, H.264 and a bunch of other media formats.

Your choice of either 8GB or 16GB of internal memory. Other features include 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, a 2-megapixel camera, Android Market support, Google Maps Navigation and Gmail.

Sansa has updated its Fuze PMP with the new Fuze+. This new device features a 2.4-inch LCD and comes in 4GB, 8GB, and 16GB capacities, in red, white, purple, blue and black. The 16GB only comes in black.

The Fuze+ is compatible with slotRadio and all microSDHC cards that go along with it, will support all major file formats, and comes with a new user interface.

First spotted back in February, Philips’ newest GoGear Connect is foregoing the proprietary OS in favor of Android. The product listing shows that the 3.2-inch media player features Android 2.1, 16GB of internal storage space, a battery good for 5 hours of video playback (and 25 hours of audio), FM radio tuner, a touchpanel and a microSD expansion slot.

Interestingly enough, GPS is also thrown in, as well as headphones. It’s listed for €264.99 (that’s $340). No word yet on international release.

Cowon has just announced a new portable media player, the V5W. It’s powered by Windows CE 6.0 and has a proprietary user interface. It features an 800 x 480 pixel 4.8-inch touchscreen, HDMI output, 1080p video player, document apps, games, dictionaries, eBook reader, web browser, Wi-Fi, and an email client.

An SDHC memory card slot is also included in case the built-in storage of 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB isn’t enough. The prices $330, $380, and $455 for the 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB models.

iRiver has just announced two new lines of cheap and colorful PMPs. First there’s the T8 Candy Bar which boasts a classic USB stick design, and is available in eight colors. They feature 4GB of storage and a battery life of up to 17 hours.

Then there’s the more interesting S100, which comes in 4GB and 8GB capacities, with a 2.83-inch, 240 x 320 resolution color display, FM Radio, microSD slot, and 720p video playback. Both the T8 and the S100 are available in Korea only right now.

I have lots of notebooks and netbooks that come through my hands and I have tested more than my share of MP3 players and iPods too. One thing that many of the devices have in common is that they lack bass.

If you want more bass from your iPod or MP3 player the zo personal subwoofer promises the kind of bass you expect form a 12-inch sub from a device the size of an iPod nano. The zo has a gauge on the front to show the intensity level it is set at.

Cowon has launched the Cowon J3 AMOLED PMP for the Korean market. It features a 3.3-inch AMOLED (480 x 272) touchscreen display, a DMB and Bluetooth. You’ll also get a built-in speaker, a voice recorder, a dictionary, TV-Out, and a MicroSD Slot.

The J3 is currently available in 4, 8 or 16GB capacities. The built-in battery is said to deliver a battery life with 64 hours of audio playback or 11 hours of video playback, which is pretty outstanding. It looks pretty stylish too.

The link may not work, but look at that. The Zune HD 64 has made an appearance on the official Zune website. Seems like Microsoft has something they want to tell us.

A 64GB Zune HD, which doubles the capacity of the previous model and means that we have three models to choose from. There’s no further info on it just yet, but as soon as Microsoft wants to stop teasing us and give us some real info, we’ll let you know.

Over the past few days Microsoft has silently cut prices on the Zune HD through an at least temporary promo. Microsoft’s media player now costs $190 for a 16GB model at Amazon. That’s $32 less than the original price. The 32GB model has also dropped to $250.

Microsoft’s very own store has dropped its prices as well, to $200 for a 16GB Zune HD and $270 for a 32GB edition. It’s looking like a great time to buy a Zune. Walmart and some other retailers are also closely matching those prices on Amazon.

It’s still cold here in Texas, but I know in a few months we will be back up in the 90′s or higher and we will all be wishing the cold weather was back. With the warm weather within sight, many people are probably already dreaming about hitting the beach or lake for some fun.

Many people like to take music with them, but most MP3 players are too fragile to stand up to water and drops. Marinemart has announced that it is taking pre-orders on the Freestyle Audio Waterproof MP3 player. The device can play MP3, WMA, and WMA DRM files.

Everybody wants HD, so the Ainol V8000HDV should do well. (Even if the name is unfortunate) After all it features not 1080p, but 1280p playback support. Not that you are likely to notice on the device’s 4.3-inch 800 x 480 screen, but with HDMI output, you can play your videos on any HD LCD display that supports 1280p.

The V8000HDV has 16GB of flash storage and for $142, you get support for TS, AVI, MP4, MPG, MKV, PSP, DAT, VOB, WMV, ASF, RM, RMVB, MOV, M2V, QT, M2A videos, and support for SRT subtitles on AVI and RMVB videos.