Energy Sistem launches 52 Touch line of MP5 renders featuring TV output

Energy Sistem knows that there’s no better way to kick-start your Friday morning than a handful of awfully similar looking renders for handheld media players! And while we’re at it, we might as well mention that they are, in fact, renders of the new 52 Touch TV-out line. Featuring a 2.8-inch TFT touch-screen, speaker, TV-out, FM transmitter for the car, microphone, and support for DivX and XviD, FLV, RM / RMVB, MP3 / WMA / WAV music files, images and TXT files, this is pretty much everything you hoped for in a media player, and nothing else. Availabe in 4GB, 8GB, and 16GB capacities (not including the 16GB microSDHC card reader) prices start at €69 (roughly $88) and increase accordingly

Cowon’s V5W PMP: a V5 with 100 percent more WiFi

What do you get when you marry a V5 with WiFi? Why, a V5W, of course! Cowon’s sexy V5 portable media player — a device we (mostly) loved on back in March — has just gained the primary feature that we argued should’ve been included from the start. It looks as if all of the other specifications have remained the same, meaning that you’re still looking at a 4.8-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen, Windows CE 6.0 underneath, 16/32/64GB of internal storage, USB 2.0 connectivity, HDMI / composite video output, a solid list of supported file formats and the best audio quality this side of the Mississippi Indian Ocean

Yepp, Samsung’s working on another PMP — but this one’s a four-inch Android with AMOLED

Samsung’s interstellar voyage with Android has just begun, it seems — after a host of smartphones and a freshly announced tablet , it looks like the OS will cameo in a new Yepp PMP. The YP-MB2 was recently spotted in the databases of the Bluetooth SIG, where it’s described as “a multi functional Mobile Internet Device” with GPS, Wi-Fi, TouchWiz 3.0 and a huge four-inch AMOLED touchscreen. Digging deeper into the technical documents, we can see it’s got Android as well — oh, and Bluetooth, of course

Cowon J3 ships to America, we go hands-on

Nary two full months after we first caught wind of Cowon’s dainty (albeit super sexy) J3 portable media player , the award-winning device has both gone on sale and arrived on our doorstep (along with a few others, according to a few jovial tipsters). As of today, prospective consumers in the US can order one for $199.99 (8GB) or $239.99 (16GB), both of which have microSD slots for capacity expansion. Per usual, Cowon’s packaging here was nothing short of delightful, and the 3.3-inch AMOLED display struck us just as the S9 did oh-so-many months ago

Samsung MP3 player goes 60 hours on a charge

Once upon a time, it meant something to have a digital audio player that went upwards of two full days without needing a charge.

Onda’s Vi10 Android PMP sports Rockchip internals, 3G wireless

We haven’t seen much of Rockchip’s 600MHz, RK2808 processor for mobile devices outside of China and, while we’re not entirely confident that this particular implementation will ever grace our retail shelves, it is nice to see that this semi-working prototype exists… somewhere. It’s the Vi10 from Onda and it sits somewhere between a PMP and a tablet, sporting the same body as the company’s earlier VX575, giving it a five-inch screen, but inside has that Rockchip processor powering an Android install

Zune HD hacked, OpenZDK now available to developers

Well, it looks like the first 64GB Zune HDs landing in customers’ hands may not be the biggest Zune news today after all. As proudly announced the ZuneBoards website, the Zune HD — and all earlier Zunes, although the potential there is a tad more limited — “have been hacked.” While obviously not the first hack of any sort for the devices, this is described as the “first true hack,” and it has made the concurrently-released OpenZDK possible. That effectively gives developers “access to everything XNA withheld before,” which more or less opens to doors to any type of application that can run on the Zune hardware — games, emulators, app stores, you name it

Zune HD 64 goes on sale early

Well, it’s not April 12th , but it looks like you can now order a Zune HD 64 nonetheless — straight from the Zune Originals website, at least. As expected, the device runs $349.99, and the 16GB and 32GB models have now also been knocked down to $200 and $270, respectively — all of which are naturally available in the usual range of different colors, and with custom designs for an extra $15.

Mystery buyer orders $8.5 million in Microvision PicoP Laser Display Engines, planning world’s greatest rave?

Remember Microvision’s little announcement last week that it would be selling its PicoP Laser Display Engine to OEMs, hoping they’d find ways to stuff the thing into little gadgets of all sorts? The company has apparently been doing just that with aplomb, already scoring an $8.5 million order from one top secret client that will “embed the PicoP engine inside a high-end mobile media player for release in late 2010.” Unfortunately, this fancy-pants media player isn’t set to be announced until just before release, meaning we have many months of delicious speculation ahead of us

Cowon J3 PMP looks cool in its brushed metal case

Hot on the heels of giving our opinion on Cowon’s (relatively) big-screened V5 media player we have some news on the next player in line from the company. It’s called the J3 and, while Cowon has officially acknowledged its existence, its specifications have only been unveiled thanks to what looks to be an internationally coordinated effort on behalf of gadget lovers everywhere. The J3 is said to have a 3.3-inch AMOLED touchscreen with a resolution of 480 x 272, pulling content from 4, 8, or 16GB of internal storage — content that can also be routed to a TV.

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