Okay, so Argos hasn’t really invented a teddy bear guru. Instead, it’s the iTeddy, an MP3 player with LCD, speakers, and 512MB of RAM (which seems a little light, given all the space available). The media player is detachable, and there’s an SD slot. Should be available soon for $123.

Thinner than current iPods, Teac’s MP-600 is available now for $230 and sports 4GB of flash storage, MP3/WMA/DRM9 and JPG/AVI playback, FM tuner with recording function, built-in speaker, and up to 10-hours of audio (5.5-hours video) off battery — and can still be expanded via SD/MMC memory cards.

Introducing the Voiis mini Pocket Messenger Phone, a class 1 Bluetooth device for your Skype and MSN Messenger calls.

It’s also an iTunes and Windows Media Player music within a 100-meter (max) radius of the included base station. The built-in mic allows you to connect to headphones.

Battery life is said to be 6 hours, 72 hours on standby. Available now in Japan for an expected ¥15,900 or $130.

If the $750 Nokia N95 is too much for your wallet, consider the latest Chinese knock-off E-PDA V16. It’s a bit larger, but sports a three-inch QVGA touchscreen, three-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and a multimedia player. It also supports microSD memory cards.

For a third of the price, it looks good to me!

source:iTechnews

Epson is more famous for making printers than portable media players, but that did not stop them from unveiling the Epson P-3000. This hard drive-based portable media player comes with 40GB worth of storage space and plays H.264 format videos on its 4" display. While the P-3000 gets three hours of playback time for video, it performs at double that time for audio, nothing impressive to be sure, as the disparity between video and audio playback time is usually much more than that. Forking out $499 for it seems pretty steep. I think most people would prefer to stick to their 80GB iPod Videos despite the smaller screen size.