Canadian Retailer Offers 8GB Zune for $99 CAD - $82 US

In an apparent show of America’s deepening recession, Canadian retailer Future Shop is selling the 8GB Zune MP3 player for just $82 CAD. That amounts to $99 in the deflated American currency.

CherryPal delays their Cloud PC again

CherryPal has announced that their $249 Cloud PC has been delayed yet again.

Amazon Let’s Slip on Creative’s New ZEN

Creative’s keeping mum on this new ZEN, but Amazon’s singing like a canary. Specs:

2.5 inch display
4GB, 8GB, and 16GB options
FM tuner
Voice recorder
 SD slot
Audio formats supported: MP3, WMA, AAC, Audible
Video formats supported: WMV, DivX, MJPEG, Tivo to Go.

Pricing ranges from $149 to $299, depending on storage. They’ll be out soon.

Samsung Yepp YP-P2 Overcomes Goofy Name with Some Style

Samsung’s been making some nice things lately, but what’s with the naming? The Yepp (Yepp?!?) YP-P2 is a lovely critter, and quite svelte: only 100 X 52 X 9.2mm. That’s thinner than a runway model… (I’ll leave it at that). Specs:

Up to 8GB Flash storage
3-inch, 428 X 240 pixel touch-screen
Integrated speaker and mike
Integrated FM radio
Integrated [...]

Thompson Makes World’s Easiest-to-Lose Player in the A1

I’m sure other vendors would argue with Thomson that the A1 is the world’s smallest media player, but they’ve definitely gone small at 3 inches and 87 grams. Still the unit has can play MP3, WMA, WAV, and AVI, has a 16:9 display, comes in 4GB and 8GB flavors, and even sports an FM tuner. [...]

DataTraveler USB Drives

Another USB flash drive: Kingston’s 8GB pair include the DataTraveler II for 8GB flavor ($154 and comes with Migo’s data synchronization software), and the DataTraveler 100 retractable which also comes in 1GB ($19), 2GB ($32), 4GB ($59), and 8GB ($116) sizes.