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TwinMos PMP525 eats CF cards, plays Ogg Vorbis
comment: 7 | Tuesday, June 20 (2006) 10:36AM | Posted by Robert Sinke
Hurray for non-DAP companies coming up with DAP-like materials every so often. Hey, it worked for SanDisk... so it was to be expected that others would follow. Take TwinMos, for instance. They're probably commonly-known for their memory module stuff, but apparently someone told them to "make PMP thingies" as well. Works for us, works for our news queue - we figure it'll work out just fine for you as well, in the end.

So here we have the PMP525 - a rather fat-looking, flash-based PMP that comes with a 16m color, 2.5-inch screen. The reason that it might come off as "thick" is because the length and width dimensions are "less noticeable": 78 x 71 x 22mm. Altogether, the PMP525 weighs 125 grams and it's able to gobble up CFI/II cards in order to expand the basic memory capacity (from 128MB~2GB up to 4GB) or to copy pictures/files from one storage medium to the other.

Furthermore, there's the (optional) FM tuner, built-in voice recorder, line-in encoder, tv-out and USB-Host(1.1) compatibility. The built-in li-polymer battery allows us to watch videos for about 4.5 hours continuously. The MP525 supports MP3, WMA and Ogg Vorbis in the audio department, whereas MPEG-1/2/4 videos are also on the "supported formats" list. Same goes for JPEG & YUV pictures. Ok, that's great - now make one that runs on super-stunningly fast PC2-6400/DDR2-800 memory modules, so that we can play Duke Nukem-sans-loading-screens on it.

LINK (via AVing)
Comments

enigman

Comments: 216
Jun 20 (2006) 11:14AM  

look good enough




Martinp

Comments: 299
Jun 20 (2006) 12:09PM  

We might even have a winner here if these guys implemented it poperly.




608zz
Location: DC metro area.
Comments: 270
Jun 20 (2006) 12:27PM  

There’s no point in this device having expandability if the card sticks out of it.

I never understood why most audio device producers haven’t figured out that the memory card is subject to damaging either itself or the device, if it sticks out. Digital cameras have a hatch that protects their expansion medium, why can’t personal audio devices?

The Lexar LDP-600, the Rios, and the Frontier Labs NEX3 seem like the only ones that have gotten the expansion slot correct.




b2m

Comments: 36
Jun 20 (2006) 02:00PM  

eeeeheem.
4.5 hours playtime? (follow the link)
And thats what TwinMOS says. So I assume perhaps 80%, that would be about 3.5h, sucky TO TEH MAXX.
Hopefully they tested that with screen always on, TM Transmitter in use, playing ogg q10 from a microdrive.
An what the heck does
"Up to 4.5 hours via DC Adaptor"
mean?
That the thing blows up after 270minutes of continous use?

Any Taiwanese People here to have a look at the taiwanese page an translate it properly?

edit:
Well, just reread it and in the Introduction its said that thats for videoplayback, would be nice if they add audio playback as well.

edit2:
According to [Linky] , it costs about 100 Euro (209 Singapuritan Dollari), with no information about the internal memory, so I suppose it is the 128MB Version.

[ edited Jun 20 (2006) 06:05PM ]




Steve

Comments: 1197
Jun 20 (2006) 06:57PM  

Looks pretty good, and the specs look very good. Hopefully it'll have the most crucial feature of all: buyable




Mikc

Comments: 43
Jun 21 (2006) 12:43AM  

Took a look at the Aving site and it looks very cheap to me.
Nice features yea, but doesn't make up for the fugliness.
With that CF slot and big 16M color screen I guess it's aimed towards (pro/semi-pro?) photographers....hahaha, hope it then supports viewing RAW-format files .




Steve

Comments: 1197
Jun 21 (2006) 08:03AM  

I don't think it's ugly. It looks like a Creative Muvo2 with an upgraded screen. It even looks like it has the same headphone jack/accessory connector. It's slightly bigger but the screen more than makes up for that.




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