Generally portable media players are larger than MP3 players by physical size, however MPIO has launched what they claim to be the world's smallest personal media player. This player has dimensions of just 32 x 55 mm with a weight of only 35g. The player features audio support for MP3, WMA (inc. DRM) and OGG Vorbis (up to Q10), picture playback for JPEG and video playback for MPEG4, WMV, AVI and DivX. It also has a built-in FM tuner and WMA voice recording.
Unfortunately with such a small physical size, its OLED screen is very small at just 1" and features a resolution of 96 x 64 with up to 65k colours. Its battery life is 11 hours from its Lithium-Polymer battery. Music can be transferred via USB2 at up to roughly 10MB/sec (~82Mbps). The player comes in capacities of 256MB, 512MB and 1GB and is sold for UK£119, £139 and £179 respectively (from MP3 Plus) in the UK.
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The player will come in three memory sizes, three different colours and allow you to watch MPEG4, DivX, AVI, WMV movies as well as view JPEG images and slideshows. Audio playback is via WMA, OGG and MP3 files while compatibility with WMA DRM means that you can play your downloaded music files on the player. |
At a first glance, it looks like this player would be ideal for carrying a movie since one can easily fit a full movie on a 512MB card by lowering the resolution and using a lower audio bit rate and most do not need more than two or three movies on most journeys. Unfortunately, with such a low resolution of 96 x 64 and a screen size of 1", this seems way too low for most movies, let alone showing photos on. :p
Source: Pocket-lint
