Remember how Samsung downsized the Wave to make the Wave 723 and killed off the pricey, fancy Super AMOLED display in the process? Yeah, well, the same rule applies to the Android-powered Galaxy line — so if you were hoping to see some mind-blowing contrast ratios on Sammy’s new PMP… well, you can just keep on hoping (and besides, even the mighty Tab has gone the TFT route for now).
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Samsung Galaxy Player 50 hands-on
Ultimate Ears is pushing out a tag team of in-ear earphones that clearly demonstrates the heights (and depths) the Logitech-owned company is willing to scale. Starting at the extreme high end are the Ultimate Ears In-Ear Reference Monitors. The $999 price tag should help clarify the target audience here (hint: professional producers and recording / mixing engineers on the go)
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Ultimate Ears announces $999 In-Ear Reference Monitors and $19.99 Blue Robots, because it can
Sonos owners, like most nerds, have been patiently waiting for three things: jetpacks and flying cars to go mainstream and the Spotify music service to play on their beloved whole home wireless audio system. Of these, only one is being announced today.
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Sonos and Spotify join hands to stream sweet sweet music, at last
If you were afraid that the iPod Classic may have bit the dust at today’s music event, well, rest assured, it’s still alive. While we awaited word on just that question from Apple, our good friend Michael Gartenberg confirmed with the company that it lives on to see another day.. and a beautiful performance by Chris Martin.
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Confirmed: the iPod Classic is alive and well
Apple’s just announced a brand new, re-designed iPod shuffle . The button is back, and this model’s got up to a 15 hour battery life, is available in five colors, and will run you $49. If you’re in the mood, you can pre-order today, and it’ll ship next week
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Apple announces redesigned iPod shuffle, brings the buttons back
SanDisk ’s finally updated its Fuze PMP with the Sansa Fuze +.
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SanDisk debuts newly designed Sansa Fuze+ PMPs
For whatever reason, iTunes tagging never really has taken off. One could chalk it up to soft marketing or just a limited number of supported devices and stations, but either way, it seems that consumers have far more efficient ways to find music they like than to hear ‘em on the radio, tag ‘em, and download ‘em later.
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Pure’s FlowSongs to rival iTunes tagging, won’t be limited to select stations
It may not have the same charm as the Flying Pasties , but Takara Tomy ’s Neckphones definitely have the “it” factor. Perfect for lounging in a nearby water hole (or watering hole, we suppose), this blow-up neck pillow has a pair of stereo speakers strategically placed near your ear canals, and there’s even a pouch that we’d never, ever trust to keep your PMP safe from the liquids below. We suppose you could also take this on a plane, but don’t bring your grumbles over here when the gals in 16A and 18B take issue with you blasting Now That’s What I Call Music! Volume 11 for the entire coach cabin to hear.
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Takara Tomy Neckphones: wraparound pillow speaker, coming soon to a Skymall near you
There are two great mysteries of the digital age: how did a Welshman become the most powerful man in Japan and when will the Beatles be available for download on iTunes? While the former will forever remain a mystery, speculation picked up on the latter in 2006 after Apple and Apple Corps — the record label owned by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and the estate of George Harrison — settled a long running dispute.
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Yoko Ono regarding Beatles on iTunes: ‘Don’t hold your breath’
When Apple acquired Lala , the obvious use for all that local scanning and internet streaming technology would have been to serve up our hard-drive-based iTunes music libraries from the cloud. Here we are though, eight months later, and the only significant impact from the acquisition was the closure of the Lala music service . And it doesn’t look like that will change anytime soon
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Apple’s Lala music team working on video streaming service for 2010 launch?
