When it came to innovation, I would have put mobiBLU in my Top 5 a few years ago. After all, this is the company that won us over with their adorable cube, and amazed us with their 150+ hour DAP (aka the B153). You'd think those types of players would propel the Korean company forward, but conversely they seemed to disappear into thin air.

I was recently contacted by mobiBLU Korea. They were quite persistent in their attempts to make sure I was aware of their new products. I was going to ignore them, but I decided to take a look at what they had to offer. It looks like they have a few new players lined up for 2009, including a touchscreen PMP called the T50. The T50 doesn't do much to differentiate itself from the crowd unfortunately. It has a pretty uninspiring design and its interface looks like another iPod touch clone.



Like the Samsung P3, it features a haptic touchscreen display (2.6" 400 x 240 resolution). It supports a respectable amount of formats including FLAC, AAC, and APE. It can also play back RM/RMVB videos. There's also the usual extras including an FM tuner, Voice recorder, and Text viewer. Another knock on the T50 is its small capacity of just 4GB. That just doesn't cut it anymore. Most of the company's current players are rebrands, and I wouldn't be surprised if the T50 was one as well. It is sad to see such a promising company in this state, but hopefully they can bounce back one of these days.

mobiBLU T50