Archos AV 500

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Archos AV 500

Woweewooo ! Racy looks and inner strength to accelerate, check out the new Archos AV 500. Built for pleassure and designed to thrill, don’t hesistate and get ready to fly to new levels of excitement with it.

Features

4 ways to discribe how amazing Archos can do for you. Rock, Record, Racy, Rich -Rock in the form of music, record the stream of sound, racy design and rich features. AV 500 available in 30GB capacity allows playing 130 hours of video, up to 85 movies, up to 15000 songs or up to 300000 photos. Most amazing features is Av 500 can record movies and other video directly from your TV, DVD player, VCR, cable or satellite receiver. Bringing you the most astonish viewing experience with support features such as slow motion, adjustable screen size, video editing, and a video bookmarking function that enhance the video play performances.

Archos Av 500 comes with a unique design with dimension 3 x 4.9 x 0.7 inch and Weight - 255 grams and 4 inch LCD display 262000 colors that plays up till 480 by 272 pixels. AV500 features Archos’ newly-designed music player application which quite user friendly allow you to organize songs and customize view by artist, album, type of music, title, year, and play lists without the need of PC.

The AV 500 also offers an audio recording application that records in high-quality WAV format from almost all analog stereo sources. Nevertheless it features the popular Mophun gaming engine, integrate with the Archos Web site for purchasing and downloading gamescompatible formats (MP3, WMA, WAV, protected WMA, MPEG-4, WMV and protected Windows Media Video) giving you the most exclusive entertainment of all.

Storage Capacity 30GB and 100GB
Music Format MP3 / WAV / WMA
AVI, MPEG4-SP, WMV9 (video)
Play Duration 15,000 WMA songs or 130 hours of video (30GB)
55,000 WMA songs or 400 hours of video (100GB)
Power Source Rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery
Battery Life Up to 15 hours of music, or 4.5 hours of movies
USB Interface USB 2.0
FM Radio No
Voice Recording Yes
Others - Video playback
- Photo viewer
- 4” high-resolution LCD screen
- Built-in speaker
- Video recording. Record directly from your TV, VCR, DVD player
- Copy, share, connect and transfer files directly from other powered mass storage devices such as digital camera

Pros

  • Near DVD quality video playback
  • Excellent video and audio recording capabilities
  • Large and bright LCD screen

Cons

  • Pricey
  • Lack of equalizer

Samsung Yepp YP-Z5

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Samsung Yepp YP-Z5

Explore the goodies and excitement from Samsung newest model. Live life to the full with music and entertainment, just stay comfort anywhere you like and start playing your favourite music with Samsung Yepp YP-Z5.

Features

Impressive work shown by Samsung for its sophisticated and solid design in the newest series YP-Z5 flash based MP3 player. Sharp and crystal clear 1.8 TFT display well intact with ultra slim body weighing only 1.98oz (1.66” x .45” x 3.54). The great feature found in YP-Z5 is the fast intuitive user interface and dedicated volume buttons, navigation is animated with menu items that slide in, zoom in, and fade out.

Improved audio and sound quality compare to previous series, more facinating features being implement to suit the need of music lovers, includes presets like ballad, classical, jazz, dance, house, R&B, rock, 3D-Club, 3D-Stage, and 3D-Studio. Long lasting battery life which made it supreme for user to listen endless music up to 35hours, how amazing it is the Samsung showing the best all just for you!

Storage Capacity 2GB (YP-Z5QB / YP-Z5QS) and 4GB (YP-Z5AB / YP-Z5AS)
Music Format MP3 / WMA / Ogg Vorbis
Play Duration 32 hours of MP3 (2GB)
64 hours of MP3 (4GB)
Power Source Rechargeable Lithium Battery
Battery Life Up to 35 hours playtime
USB Interface USB 2.0
FM Radio No
Voice Recording No
Others - 1.8 TFT-LCD
- Photo viewer
- Customize player background with JPEG images
- Tap Bar navigation

Pros

  • Awesome battery life
  • Solid Build
  • Comfortable Size
  • Fast Intuitive User Interface
  • Dedicated Volume Buttons

Cons

  • Proprietary dock connector, hard to find replacement
  • No FM Radio
  • No On-To-Go playlist mode

SanDisk Sansa c150

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SanDisk Sansa c150

New look, new features, better enhancement offer by SanDisk Corps. Not to mention, always the best choice for budget user for it price, quality as well as features.

Features

The new series flash memory player Sansa c150 brings to you not only excellent sound play but also high resolution color screen display. Newly enhanced feature allows photo viewing and better storage capacity (c140-1GB; c150-2GB). Small with dazzling outlook, suitable for music lover who love music as well as sharing their beautiful pictures with it excellent high resolution 1.7inch display.

Extra features include digital FM tuner with 20 preset stations, FM on-the-fly recording and voice recording. Supports all major audio file formats, including Audible audio files. Continous playback with just one AAA replaceable battery for Up to 15 hours.

Storage Capacity 1GB (c140) and 2GB (c150)
Music Format MP3 / WMA
Play Duration 16 hours of MP3 (1GB)
32 hours of MP3 (2GB)
Power Source 1 x AAA battery
Battery Life Up to 15 hours playtime
USB Interface USB 2.0
FM Radio Yes
Voice Recording Yes
Others - Photo thumbnail playback
- Easy-to-use interface for sorting and playing back your music
- FM tuner with 20 preset stations, FM on-the-fly recording, voice recording,

Pros

  • Low prices
  • Solid sound
  • Multifunctionality (MP3 player, FM tuner, FM recorder, photo viewer)

Cons

  • No internal rechargeable battery
  • Tiny screen

SanDisk Sansa e270

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SanDisk Sansa e270

The world’s largest memory for flash-based MP3 players. SanDisk continue to strike on fiercely with the new developed high capacity flash memory player. Check out the new model SanDisk Sansa e270, bringing to you more facinating features and entertainment along with the new stylish design and astonishing outlook.

Features

Sizing only 1.7×0.5×3.5 inches, nevertheless excellent travelling partner for outgoing music lover for it high portability and pocket size design. However the new highlight focus on the flash memory “6Gb” introduced by SanDisk Corps is the world largest flash memory ever created. This series offers more flexibility and improvement on navigation by adapting scrollwheel features.

e270 enhanced it functionality to allow photo viewing and video playing as well as conserving the best features from previous series. 65k high resolution color screen giving you crystal clear view, provide to you excellent sound play as well as quality video display. SanDisk also introduce a new features microSD expansion slot for additional memory capacity in future enhancement. No doubt SanDisk still the offering low price for it product and surely becoming the top shopping list for music lover.

Storage Capacity 2GB (e250), 4GB (e260) and 6GB (e270)
Music Format MP3 / WMA
Play Duration 32 hours of MP3 (2GB)
64 hours of MP3 (4GB)
96 hours of MP3 (6GB)
Power Source Rechargeable Lithium Battery
Battery Life Up to 20 hours playtime
USB Interface USB 2.0
FM Radio Yes
Voice Recording Yes
Others - View image (slide show) and play video
- Supports Microsoft PlaysForSure Downloads and Subscriptions
- Replaceable and rechargeable Lithium Ion battery
- Features microSD expansion slot for additional memory capacity
- Strong Liquidmetal back casing provides excellent durability and scratch resistance

Pros

  • Excellent sound quality
  • Replaceable and rechargeable battery
  • Expansion slot for additional memory
  • Multifunctionality (MP3 player, video player, photo viewer)

Cons

  • Photos and video must be converted with SanDisk Media Converter
  • No bookmark feature for mp3

Archos Gmini 402

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Archos Gmini 402

Archos offers state of the art design featuring Ultra slim, Ultra light, Ultra small portable media player ever exist. Solid build and compact design which implementing the latest technology supports for PlaysForSure and Windows Media DRM.

Features

The Archos Gmini 402 offers compatibility with Stereo MP3 decoding at 30-320 kb/s CBR & VBR, WMA, WMA protected files, WAV. PlaysForSure Audio recording - Stereo sound in WAV (PCM & ADPCM) format Photo viewer - JPEG (except progressives) or BMP. High resolution (720 x 480) 2.2-inch TFT LCD screen giving you the top quality video play screening on 262k colors.

Gmini 402 can play up to 80 hours of video play, 200,000 photos or 10,000 songs with storage capacity of 20GB hard drive. High speed download files from PC through USB 2.0 port offering no time delay at all, nevertheless photos transfer from digital camera to PC can be done only by plug and play. Great features and sensational performance presented by Archos taking you one step closer to the next era of music entertainment.

Storage Capacity 20GB
Music Format MP3 / WAV / WMA
AVI, MPEG4-SP, WMV9 (video)
Play Duration 10,000 WMA songs or 5000 MP3 songs
Power Source Rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery
Battery Life Up to 10 hours of music, or 4 hours of movies
USB Interface USB 2.0
FM Radio No
Voice Recording Yes
Others - Copy, share, connect and transfer files directly from other powered mass storage devices such as digital cameras and card reader
- Slideshow and photo viewer
- 2.2” high-resolution LCD screen
- Mophun game engine
- Video playback

Pros

  • Excellent video and audio quality
  • Excellent audio recording capabilities
  • Multifunctionality (MP3 player, music recorder, movie player, photo viewer, play games)

Cons

  • Battery life still need to be improved
  • No built-in speaker