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The Most Disappointing Sansa Fuze+ Unboxing Ever

{ Posted on Sep 03 2010 by Grahm Skee }
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Seeing that SanDisk started shipping the new Fuze+ from SanDisk.com, I cancelled my order at Amazon and placed an overnight order on SanDisk.com. On the invoice there were two items, the Fuze+ and something called “SanDisk Product Review Request”. Turns ...Read More »

Sony’s Walkman Outsells Apple For the First Time in Japan

{ Posted on Sep 02 2010 by Grahm Skee }
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AFP reports that Sony’s market share for MP3 players for last month was 47.8% compared to Apple’s 44%. Since the early reign of the cassette Walkman’s that started over 3 decades ago, it looks like Sony is back on top for portable players ...Read More »

SanDisk Sansa Fuze+ Shipping- Plus First Impressions

{ Posted on Sep 02 2010 by Grahm Skee }
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ABI forum member glove4 received his Fuze+ today ordered from SanDisk.com. Amazon is note quite shipping yet but will likely be available shortly. Mine should be here soon, so expect a full on review to follow but in the mean ...Read More »

Samsung Galaxy Tab Gets Official–Froyo Now and Gingerbread Later

{ Posted on Sep 02 2010 by Grahm Skee }
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I have always been impressed with Samsung’s MP3 players. They do a really nice job build quality and have some thoughtful user interfaces so I will be sure to pick up a Samsung tablet to be released later ...Read More »

Five New Archos Tablets Featuring Android

{ Posted on Aug 31 2010 by Grahm Skee }
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Archos updates their tablet line with 5 new all running Android. I always loved Archos hardware but always had an ill feeling towards their software and custom Android builds on their previous generation of tablets. However I still get excited ...Read More »

SanDisk Officially Announces the Fuze+

{ Posted on Aug 31 2010 by Grahm Skee }
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Update: Now available to pre-order on Amazon. It has been awhile since we heard anything from the SanDisk Sansa line of MP3 players and we have seen some leaks of the Fuze+ a few weeks ago but today SanDisk announces the ...Read More »

Phillips GoGear Connect Android Based PMP

{ Posted on Aug 31 2010 by Grahm Skee }
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Phillips will show of a new PMP based on Android. Which flavor of android is unclear but they do tout Android Market as the place to download apps unlike Archos failed attempts at an Android device. The features mentioned make it ...Read More »

Pardon the Mess

{ Posted on Aug 25 2010 by Grahm Skee }
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We have upgraded our CMS to WordPress, it was a bit rushed since we had to get off of a legacy install of Movable Type that had security exploits. Since is was rushed there are a lot of design elements ...Read More »

Another Silly/Amusing “High End” MP3 Player: Colorfly

{ Posted on Aug 16 2010 by Anything But iPod }
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At least this one is a real looker with its amusing retro design, compared to the junk "high end" from Hifiman, HiSound, s-flo, and the other ripoff manufacturers that put zero effort into their players, just for a quick buck. This ...Read More »

Another Silly/Amusing “High End” MP3 Player: Colorfly

{ Posted on Aug 16 2010 by Martin Sägmüller }
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At least this one is a real looker with its amusing retro design, compared to the junk “high end” from Hifiman, HiSound, s-flo, and the other ripoff manufacturers that put zero effort into their players, just for a quick buck. This ...Read More »

Cowon X7 Becoming Reality After Years of Speculation?

{ Posted on Aug 12 2010 by Anything But iPod }
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Some realistic news via GenerationMP3 (Google translation). - With an 1.8" HDD it might compete with the iPod Classic, and the other very, very few players still left that give 100+GB of data storage (most of which aren't any good ...Read More »

Cowon X7 Becoming Reality After Years of Speculation?

{ Posted on Aug 12 2010 by Martin Sägmüller }
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Some realistic news via GenerationMP3(Google translation). – With an 1.8″ HDD it might compete with the iPod Classic, and the other very, very few players still left that give 100+GB of data storage (most of which aren’t any good anyways). Not ...Read More »

anythingbutiphone: What Smartphone Formfactor Are You?

{ Posted on Jul 27 2010 by Anything But iPod }
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Consumers love choice, especially in terms of their formfactor and a poll in the forum shows that a touchscreen only device is not the end all be all formfactor for mobile phones. For a minute, set aside the OS debate ...Read More »

anythingbutiphone: What Smartphone Formfactor Are You?

{ Posted on Jul 27 2010 by Grahm Skee }
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Consumers love choice, especially in terms of their formfactor and a poll in the forum shows that a touchscreen only device is not the end all be all formfactor for mobile phones. For a minute, set aside the OS debate ...Read More »

Zune HD ProClip Mount Review

{ Posted on Jul 21 2010 by Anything But iPod }
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I have been using this mounting system for well over a year and have been very pleased with it keeping me focused on the road. I did a ProClip review not too long ago with a slightly different configuration but ...Read More »

Panasonic RP-HJE900 Zirconia Review

{ Posted on Jul 20 2010 by Anything But iPod }
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Martin aka DFKT drop off this little review for us in the headphone forum. Even though these phones were released June of 2008, he found them to be quite nice. Read the full review in the forums till we have ...Read More »

ABI Update

{ Posted on Jul 19 2010 by Anything But iPod }
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Just wanted to give you a bit of an update on whats going on here at ABI. As you noticed that our comments are down and we are a bit behind on posting some reviews. Currently we are in CMS ...Read More »

EarSonics SM3 Review

{ Posted on Jun 28 2010 by Anything But iPod }
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When one thinks about specialized European in-ear monitor manufacturers, not a lot of brands come to mind. Of course there are the bigwigs like Sennheiser and AKG, and their assortment of cheap-to-expensive earphones next to their regular headphones, but for ...Read More »

Sony Walkman W250 (NWZ-W252) Review

{ Posted on Jun 22 2010 by Anything But iPod }
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Dealing with headphone cables can sometimes be a pain, especially when you are using it while active. One solution many have tried is by going wireless Bluetooth but sound quality was always hurt. You also still had to deal with ...Read More »

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{ Posted on Jun 10 2010 by Anything But iPod }
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Creative ZiiSound D5 Review

{ Posted on Jun 09 2010 by Anything But iPod }
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The ZiiSound D5 is Creative’s flag ship compact speaker system and centered around Bluetooth audio. I have tended to shy away from Bluetooth audio devices since most of the devices I have tried came up pretty short in terms of ...Read More »

Cowon V5 HD Review

{ Posted on May 26 2010 by Anything But iPod }
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What do you get when you pair decent quality audio/video hardware with a laughably bad user interface, backwards usability, and disregard for anything that makes sense to the average user? Well, a Cowon PMP, of course. While this was true ...Read More »

Viliv P3 Prime shows up on the Viliv site

{ Posted on May 24 2010 by Anything But iPod }
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Viliv is one of those companies that make somewhat niche products that are still very impressive- such as the Viliv S5 and X70 UMPCs, the new S10 convertible netbook etc. Now a new Viliv device has popped up on their ...Read More »

Kicker ZKick ZK350 Zune Dock Review

{ Posted on May 20 2010 by Anything But iPod }
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The ZK350 is the third installment of Zune Docks by kicker. I have already reviewed the other two docks: ZK500 & ZK150 if you are interested in checking out those reviews. In short though, the ZK350 hits a sweet spot ...Read More »

Thepot Player Review

{ Posted on May 18 2010 by Anything But iPod }
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I've reviewed a fair bit of music software in the past, but mostly music organizing software for "normal" PCs. Back in the Viliv S5 review I mentioned how there isn't really any optimized software for playing back music on a ...Read More »
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