Month: June 2004
Review: Samsung Yepp YP-55
While this might not be the smallest MP3 player in the world (that accolade goes to the BenQ Joybee 102, apparently) there's no doubting the Samsung YP-55 is tiny. Smaller than most cigarette lighters and small enough to sit on…
Apple iTunes – June 15th is the big day
It is not something that we can fully confirm but we are pretty certain that June 15th will be the day that Apple finally announces the launch of its iTunes music download service for Europe/UK. The company has called a…
N-Gage QD – now on sale
Nokia's much-improved, second take on the N-Gage platform should be in stores today. The QD has a host of improvements, including not needing to talk holding the phone sideways to your head, a better keyboard layout, better battery life and…
Loewe's sexy hard drive tellies
Unveiled at the CEDIA show in Birmingham were several new LCD tellies from German company Loewe that certainly looked quite interesting. The new Spheros tellies are available with 80Gb hard drives which the company claims is enough to provide up…
Horse play
Ever imagined a race where Red Rum takes on Desert Orchid with Shergar coming up on the rails? Well now you can (though I'd keep a close eye on Shergar as you might lose him) with Firebox's ace new Horse…
Digital TV ready PVR
The trouble with some personal video players (upcoming Sony and Samsung/Creative Labs models spring to mind) is that video can only be transferred to their hard disk via a PC. Not so the PVR from newbies to the Brit consumer…
No widescreen Euro 2004
Really bad news for European footy fans with decent TVs as well as for major sponsors like Samsung who have geared new LCD/plasma widescreen product ranges around Euro 2004. Apparently the Portuguese broadcaster handling the images from Euro 2004 isn't…
World's smallest MP3 player take 2
Seems like the R and D team at Samsung has some work to do. Not only has its lost its world's largest plasma screen title to Chinese brand Skyworth, Taiwanese maker BenQ has also trumped its claim to be the…
World's 2nd smallest MP3 player hits UK
Samsung is to bring the world's smallest MP3 player (well it was until the arrival of the BenQ Joybee 102) to the UK in August. Slightly larger than an AA battery, the YP-T5, which is 5.4cm tall and weighs just…
iRiver adds colour
The must-have new feature in hard disk based music players this summer is not Bluetooth, as we rather unwisely predicted back in January, but rather a colour screen. iRiver has joined Sony and Archos in unveiling a player with a…
