Filed under: Cellphones, GPS, Portable Video

After teasing us with a lustful peep from their V900’s marketing collateral, E-TEN had the good grace to make their newest Glofiish official. Their first handset to offer mobile TV does so without hesitation — DVB-H, DVB-T, T-DMB, and DAB broadcast media are all supported on that generous VGA display. These consumer oriented Windows Mobile phones pack an unspecified GSM radio, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS underneath a new, E-TEN developed touch-based user interface. Presumably, E-TEN has a TouchFLO-like layer to hide the consumer-unfriendly ugliness of Microsoft’s increasingly dated and finger-meat hating mobile OS. Also announced is E-TEN’s new Glofiish M810 with HSDPA, WiFI (b/g), and GPS with full QWERTY in tow. More on these with their unveiling at GSMA.

[Via Pocket PC Thoughts]

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

According to Zune user Joel Geddis, way back in 2006 his first gen player spontaneously reset and blasted an ear-shattering noise through the earbuds, resulting in permanent “fluid leakage from [his] ear canal, impaired hearing, and incessant ringing and discomfort.” Sound like the stuff of a lawsuit? That’d be correct. Like many others, Joel is beating the war drum in an attempt to raise some awareness of his pending product liability and personal injury suit against Toshiba (who made the first Zune’s hardware) and Microsoft. See, this is why we warn people to put in ear-plugs before putting on their headphones — otherwise you might damage your hearing.

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

It’s been slowly spreading from one retailer to another today, but it looks like the Zune 8 is now officially just $179. No word on what spurred the $20 price drop — hey, Microsoft is feeling rather generous today — but if you were looking for 8GBs of the social, now seems like as good a time as any. Just don’t spend the coin you save on a tattoo, okay? We’ll cry.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio, Portable Video

It’s not like this hasn’t been done a time or two before, but for those still looking for an ultra-convenient way to output iPod navigation onto a TV, here goes. Tekkeon’s rather ho hum NavDock Home Media Center promises simple to use on-TV control of the menus and content on one’s iPod, and the 16-button remote is sure to keep your thumbs busy while that derriere remains firmly planted. Unfortunately, this bugger doesn’t offer up any kind of upscaling, but then again, it is priced at a somewhat reasonable $129.95.

[Via Coolest-Gadgets]

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Firmware version 3.07 just went live over at Samsung’s download center. This is the 2nd firmware update for Sammy’s slick little P2. Word on the street has it delivering on the promises already peeped in the video preview. Just be sure that you’re downloading the newest version as Sammy’s site seems to have cross-linked v3.07 with the older v2.08 download. Nevertheless, between this and the PSP 3.90 M33 release, our weekend is pretty much set.

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[Via 4th Dimension Thinking, thanks Oscar M.]

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Yeah, we Americans have some pretty fancy toys to play with, but we still can’t help but feel a touch slighted each time one of these beauties emerges from South Korea. WithView’s HM-U500 sports a whole lot of screen and not much bezel, an ultrathin design and a 4.3-inch 480 x 272 resolution panel. Reportedly, the unit is available in 4GB and 8GB iterations and features an SD expansion slot, built-in camera, a kickstand, headphone jack, a T-DMB tuner, e-dictionary, and support for MP3, WMV, OGG, JPG, BMP, PNG and AVI file formats. No word on a price or anything, but for the US crowd who can’t just hop on the next flight to Seoul to pick one up, we’re probably better off not knowing.

[Via TheGadgetSite]

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Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Mmm, nothing tastes quite like a fresh batch of homebrew hacks on day-old firmware. PSP owners yearning to get their Skype on need wait no more. The M33 team has released a custom version of Sony’s 3.90 firmware available via the new Network Update or directly over that interwoven web of glowing tubes. Really, what more could you ask for on a Friday?

[Via PSP Fanboy]

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Normally we’d let run-of-the-mill PMPs like Pasen’s F10 pass on by, but we just had to stop and call out the blatant use of both the iTunes and WMP icons here — even given Pasen’s history, that’s just a little much. Come on guys, the F10 looks like a solid little player — 2.6-inch 400 x 240 display, MP3 / AAC / FLAC / DivX / XviD / RMVB support, just 0.2 inches thick — why not actually try and let it compete, instead of saddling it with the trappings of irrelevant KIRFdom? Ugh, we have to go lie down.

[Via PMP Today]

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Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable Video

If you’ve got a certain brand loyalty to the official iPhone Dev Team then take note, they just released their own special flavor of the 1.1.3 jailbreak for iPhone / iPod touch. We guess that with the splitter version already outed (and its secrets revealed to Apple) there was no sense in keeping it under wraps any longer. The hack requires a v1.1.2 jailbroken device with the BSD Subsystem v1.5 or greater installed — it does NOT upgrade your baseband. All the usual cautions apply hacker-boy so be careful out there, we haven’t tested… yet.

[Thanks, Ben]

Download — official 1.1.3 Dev Team jailbreak

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Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Oh yes, Skype for your PSP-2000 (aka, PSP Slim & Lite) series is now a reality. At least outside of Japan. It’s only available via network update at the moment and adds expanded support for PLAYSTATION Network titles. You do have your $20 PSP Headset right? Good, so what are you waiting for punk, get outta here and let us know how it goes.

[Via PSP Fanboy, thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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