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Unlike certain other Chinese devices, the Aigo Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP5 personal media player is actually a working, fully-featured PMP with support for FM radio, eBooks, and an adequate variety of audio and video formats — it even outputs 720p content, though its own display is limited to 480 x 272. While Aigo’s sponsorship of the McLaren Mercedes Formula One car is this thing’s excuse for existence, it’s technically also under the company’s Patriot name (it’s called the Patriot MP5-MK3510) but we’re guessing the F1 theme will be more attractive to the Y chromosome than Winnie the Pooh.

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Source: Samuel Axon

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Samsung — known for dropping a PMP or two on the public — has introduced a couple of new media players sure to have you tearing up and snapping open piggy banks. First up is the S2 “Pebble” player which we saw a little while back, a tiny, rounded DAP with 1GB of storage on-board that can tune in your favorite FM stations (they still have those, right?) as well as play back MP3, WMA, and OGG files. The S2 comes in green, purple, red, and black / white, which should make it easy to match up with your outfit. The other new offering is the S3, a 4GB or 8GB full-function (yet slim) device which sports a 240 x 320 display, plays MP3, MPEG4, and WMA files, includes an FM tuner, flash games, and comes in green, red, blue, or black / white. Both models will be available in June, no word on price. Stay tuned for a thrilling hands-on experience with both new models.

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Source: Joshua Topolsky

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Enter the Cuso PC S600 “UMPC,” your ticket to near-constant ridicule from friends and family. Sure, you’d think with specs like the blazing 266MHz ARM CPU, 1GB or 4GB of flash memory, 802.11b WiFi, miniSD support, playback of MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV, OGG, AAC, APE, AVI, WMV, DIVX, H.264, ASF, and 3GP files (um, with the freeware app TCPMP), and all kinds of Windows CE-powered document handling (TXT, DOC, XLS, PDF, PPT, PPS) you’d be all set, but we don’t think it’s that simple. There’s something about that cheap looking plastic casing, stereo speakers, and totally out of line use of the term UMPC that tell us this probably isn’t much more than a glorified PMP. On the bright side, we’re thinking this isn’t going to break any banks, though we’ve got no word on price or release date.

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Source: Joshua Topolsky

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Filed under: CES, Features, Portable Audio, Portable Video

We can’t say too much about iriver’s tiny, tiny, tiny Lplayer except that… well, it’s tiny. We can’t stress how small this is. Despite its size, they still manage to cram up to 8GB in this guy, and top it off with a 2-inch screen. Check the gallery below and witness the micro-sized wonder. P.S. — It’s tiny.

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Source: Joshua Topolsky

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We finally got a chance to play with the petite and purple MTube — unfortunately, it wasn’t powered up! All we can really attest to is the size and design, the former being relatively tiny, and the latter coming off as so-so. Still, it will be interesting to see where they take the WiMAX functionality and Linux-based OS. Word is there’s an active model somewhere around CES, and you can bet we’ll be hunting it down, Predator-style.

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Source: Joshua Topolsky

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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/New_Creative_Touchscreen_DAP’; As is our way sometimes, we happened to stumble upon a pair of photos (read: a source sent us some pictures) claiming to be an unannounced, widescreen PMP from Creative. Kinda like a Zen or Vision W, but without the asymmetrical controls on the side. And yep, the full-screen player looks to be touch-sensitive, and may or may not sport WiFi, which has been a winning combo for several other devices that we know and love. Check out the other shot after the break.

Update: Certainly does look a lot like a Cowon Q5 all photoshopped up, innit? Thanks Connor.Continue reading Is this a full-screen, touch-sensitive Creative PMP? Update: probably not.

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Source: Evan Blass

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Are you interested in a really, really small DAP? As in: so small you will most definitely lose it some place, like, say… between your car seat cushions, or in a pile smooth skipping stones? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you might want to look into Sansa’s Clip — just about the teeny-tiniest media player we’ve ever had the pleasure of handling. Actually, the thing feels pretty good when you get your mitts on it, sort of like a shrunken iPod, with a really nice, clear OLED display. At the low prices they’re asking for these ($40 for the 1GB, $60 for the 2GB), you can probably afford to lose a few. Check the gallery — we promise you won’t have to squint… much.

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Source: Joshua Topolsky

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When we first heard about the “animated menus” of the T10, we had our doubts, but after playing around with the youth-oriented PMP, we’ve decided it gets a thumbs up. The ultralight, ultrathin media player felt practically weightless in our hands, but its screen was bright and crisp, and those frenetic, PaRappa the Rapper-like animations definitely make for an interesting UI — certainly like no other player on the market right now. Check out the gallery for pictures which will shock and amaze.

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Source: Joshua Topolsky

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