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Newman’s A36HD PMP

China's Newman is nothing if not prolific, and it's now introduced yet another new PMP that continues its trend of nondescript designs and limited availability 'round these parts. At just 8mm thick, however, the company's new A36HD device should at least turn a few more heads than the usual fare, and it doesn't look to have cut too many corners to make that happen. That includes a 3-inch, non-touchscreen display, 4GB or 8GB of storage, a microSD card slot for more, support for 720p video...

Casio Trots Out World’s Slimmest Shock-resistant Digicam

Generally speaking, having something "ruggedized" ruins the aesthetic appeal. You trade style for function, and that's been perfectly acceptable until today. The EX-G1, which becomes the first camera in the new EXILIM G line, takes a few cues from Casio's G-SHOCK line while being the planet's thinnest shock-resistant camera. Furthermore, this thing is freezeproof, waterproof and dustproof, and at just 0.78-inches thick, you'll hardly notice it shoved in your left rear pocket. As for specs,...

Hallods F43 MP4 Player Packs a 4.3-inch 720p Screen

Looks like the wait for a real HD PMP is finally over: Hallods of Japan has just released their F43 MP4 player featuring a 4.3-inch 1280x720 screen, easily beating other sub-5-inch, 480p screens found on big names like the Archos 5 and Viewsonic's VPD400. Under that sharp screen is 8GB of internal storage and a hot-swappable microSD slot, along with a battery life of about four hours and ten hours for video and music, respectively. Like many PMPs out there the F43 supports videos encoded in...

Viewsonic officially launches VPD400 MovieBook media player

Viewsonic was showing this one off way back in July alongside a slew of other gear, but it's just now gotten fully official with its VPD400 MovieBook media player, which is apparently available right away for $129.99. That will get you a 4.3-inch 800 x 480 display, 8GB of internal memory, a micro SD card slot for more, an AV out port for some bigger screen viewing (not HDMI, it seems), and a promised 12 hours of battery life for audio and six for video not to mention your choice of black, pink...

Creative’s ZEN X-Fi2 Touchscreen PMP

Candidly speaking, we can't honestly envision too many of you fine folks running out and purchasing one of Creative's new ZEN X-Fi2 portable media players given the availability of such robust alternatives. That said, we'd be remiss of our duties if we didn't point out that the PMP which shocked us at IFA is now on sale directly from Creative. $129.99 buys you an 8GB model, while $179.99 nets you 16GB and $229.99 provides 32GB. We know that 3-inch LCD and integrated FM tuner look good from...