Well have I never. Can't recall having stumbled across this thing before, but there you go: Thomson/RCA is one of those companies that comes up with the most random shtuff in the most random places every so often... remember their Black Diamond (EH?), for instance (due for November).

Apparrently, Thomson recently released a slender little flash DAP in China - it's called the "PMP2008" (2 years ahead of its time?) and doesn't look too bad at all.

Okay, with the blue backlit controller switched off it looks like your average-day, "DigiArmor S20 meets iPod nano"-kind of DAP; but DAPs aren't supposed to be switched off anyway (another reason to own dozens and dozens of them!).

So this Chinese website "PCOnline" came up with a nice little review of their own, revealing some of this thingy's specs while they were at it. Turns out to be a 1GB flash DAP (not sure if that's the ceiling level) with a 2-inch, 262k color screen and - lo and behold - a USB1.1 connector. In return, we get nothing less than TV-out, though. There's a 950mAh lithium(-something) battery in there, and the whole thing measures 100 x 55 x 10mm.

Coming to theatres nowhere near you Lord-knows-when-and-why.

LINK (Babel'd Chinese)