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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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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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 Skytex Primer Pocket is a portable device with a 4.3 inch, 480 x 272 pixel display that’s best described as a portable media player. But it also happens to run Google Android 2.2 Froyo, which means you can also use the PMP to surf the web, play games, and run a number of Android applications. The Primer Pocket won’t…

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Sony is launching its next-generation Sony Walkman portable media player. We got an early look at the device last month, back when it was still called the “Sony Walkman Mobile Entertainment Player.” The new, easier to remember name is the Sony Walkman Z. The portable media player features a 4.3 inch, 800 x 480 pixel display, a 1 GHz NVIDIA…

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Samsung has announced that it will begin shipping its new 4 and 5 inch Galaxy S WiFi tablets soon. Unfortunately the Korean company is doing a gradual rollout instead of launching the Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 4.0 and Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 globally right away. The 4 inch model will hit Russia first, while the 5 inch version will launch…

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Philips is the latest company to throw its hat in the Android portable media player ring. CNET reports that the company will launch a Philips GoGear Connect device in September for about $179. The device will be sort of like an Android smartphone without cellular connectivity… or like an Android version of an iPod touch. The media player will run…

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Samsung has announced that the Samsung Galaxy Player 4″ and Galaxy Player 5″ which the company unveiled at MWC last month will be headed to this spring. These portable Android devices are smaller than the Samsung Galaxy Tab line of Android tablets, but they lack the cellular data capabilities of a Samsung Galaxy S Smartphone. Both the 4 and 5…

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While NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 chip is powering almost every new Android tablet set to launch in the next few months, the Tegra platform has actually been around for a few years. The first big name device to ship with a first generation Tegra chip? The Microsoft Zune HD… the little portable media player that couldn’t — but only because nobody…

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