Cowon has released a new Android-powered portable media player in Korea. The Cowon Z2 Plenue has a highly customized version of Android, a 1 GHz Telechips ARM Coretx-A8 processor, and support for 1080p HD video playback. The PMP has a 3.7 inch, 800 x 480 pixel AMOLE Ddisplay, WiFI, Bluetooth, FM radio, and built-in speakers and a mic. It’s available with…

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Sony is bringing its Walkman Z line of Android-powered portable media players to the US. The Walkman Z1000 series will be available starting this spring for $249.99 and up. The handheld media players feature 4.3 inch multitouch displays and run Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread. While there’s an emphasis on music, with a S-Master MX digital amplifier with noise reduction, and…

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The Sony Walkman Z is Sony’s answer to the iPod touch. It has a 4.3 inch, 480 x 800 pixel display, an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, and runs Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread. This week the Walkman Z showed up at the FCC website, which suggests that Sony is preparing to launch the portable device in the US soon. Once upon…

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Today’s a good day to be in the market for a portable media device. Newegg is selling iPod touch models for 10 percent off, and you can grab a Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0 far below list price from Amazon. There are also some great deals on tablets, a USB flash drive, and other mobile tech. Handheld devices Apple 8GB iPod…

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Remember PDAs? Before smartphones became ubiquitous, personal digital assistants such as the Palm Pilot, Handspring Visor, and Dell Axim were all the rage (with geek and/or well-organized people, anyway). But a funny thing happened when smartphones really started to take off — companies stopped making PDAs. While that’s probably because they weren’t selling very well in the age of iPhones…

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Samsung’s Galaxy Player line of handheld Android devices is getting a price cut. When the Galaxy Player 5.0 and Galaxy Player 4.0 started shipping recently they were priced at $270 and $230 respectively. But now you can pick up the 5 inch model from Amazon for $229, or grab the 4 inch Galaxy Player 4.0 for $189. That makes the…

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Rice works as a dessicant, which means that if you place a moist object in a bag of rice long enough, the rice should absorb most of the water. Over the past few years I’ve heard repeatedly that you can use this trick to dry out a water-damaged cellphone or other gadget, but I’ve never had an excuse to try…

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The Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0 is a portable Android device with a 5 inch, 800 x 480 pixel display, a 1 GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, and 8GB of storage. It includes Bluetooth, WiFi, and GPS wireless features, and basically does everything an Android smartphone can do — except make phone calls. It even supports the Google Android Market. The…

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The iPod touch is a pretty amazing little device that bridges the gap between a portable media player and a smartphone. It’s a handheld device that you can use to surf the internet, listen to music, watch movies, play games, or download hundreds of thousands of applications. With a starting price of $199, it’s cheaper than a smartphone — and…

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The Samsung Galaxy Player WiFi 5.0 is now available for purchase from J&R for $270. The device looks like a phone with a large screen, but the WiFi-only device doesn’t make cellular phone calls. Instead, it’s a portable media player that can run thousands of Android apps. It’s sort of like a big iPod touch with Android instead of iOS….

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Archos has added yet another member to its growing family of Android-powered tablets and portable media players. The Archos 35 IT showed up at French retailer Fnac recently for just under 100 Euros, or about $134 US. The little tablet has a 3.5 inch, 272 x 480 pixel display, 4GB of storage, an 800 MHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor and runs Google Android…

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Apple introduced a new crop of mobile products today, and they’re all kind of familiar looking. The iPod touch and iPod Nano have barely changed, while the shiny new iPhone 4S looks exactly like an iPhone 4. But under the hood it has a couple of major improvements, including a faster processor, a better camera, and faster mobile broadband. The…

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