A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the new Zune players and now they are officially announced by Microsoft. The big news is the ‘Zune pad‘ (the squircle) which works pretty good as the navigation tool new players. There are three new models: the 80GB model with a 3.2-inch screen for $249.99, the smaller [...]

Today Amazon launched a public beta of a new service where they sell DRM-free mp3 music files. They currently offer 2 million songs from more than 180 000 artists – pretty amazing. The good news is that the files are encoded in 256 kilobits per second and the fact that you can don’t have to [...]

Here’s a really thin mp3 player that will make even an iPod nano go hide in a corner. This flash card MP3 player from Brando is a credit card sized media player that is really light weight – it weighs only 20 grams and you charge and add tunes to the player via a standard [...]

I guess you got to be a tech nerd to enjoy reading tecnical specification sheets and laugh at the eventual typos you might find. Here’s a great example from Apple Canada that let you know that an iPod nano 8GB can hold 2000 songs, 7000 photos or 8 hours video while an iPod touch 8GB [...]

Zunescene.com unveiled some trustworthy information about the new series of Zune players from Microsoft. They aim to unveil their new models on October 16th and the most important new feature is the navigation thingy called the squircle (square/circle) that looks just like a cross between a square and a circle. I doubt that Apple will [...]

On the 10th of October Winamp will turn 10 and to celebrate their anniversary they will launch a new 5.5 version (5+5=10?) that includes two quite controversial features; you will be able to stream your entire mp3 collection to anyone, and Winamp’s new media monitor can be used to keep track of mp3 blogs and [...]

ArsTechnica always deliver interesting reviews, and today’s review of the latest iPod from Apple is no exception. The review is extremely detailed and covers all there is to know about the strenths and weaknesses of the iPod in 7 full pages, accompanied with lots of photos. If you don’t have the time to go through [...]

Ifixit is a site that can help you out when you are repairing an Apple iPod – they sell spare parts. From time to time they publish some cool editorial content too, like today. They have taken the unboxing concept a bit further – they have unboxed an iPod touch completely. There’s 22 screws inside [...]

The obvious difference between the iPhone and the iPod touch is that you can make phone calls with the iPhone – but when you study the new iPod touch you will see that there’s quite many things that are missing. Bill Palmer, the man behind iProng has just published an article on the matter. If [...]

A couple of years ago I used my Xbox as a media center connected to my network and television. It worked quite good (minus for the noise level!) but nowadays I have replaced the Xbox with a HTPC (home theater PC). Sometimes I really miss the Xbox though since it’s really grea at playing strange [...]