Go Play AV: Portable Audio, Video, Media and Game Players

The MPIO ONE is a good - read excellent - example of the difference between a portable media player and portable video player (which makes the iPod a PMP). It’s the screen, Jean. This one sports a tiny 1inch display. The cleverly named site, AnythingButiPod put it through it’s paces

Pros

Excellent Sound Quality
All Available Accessories Included
Universal Mass Storage, No Drivers Needed
Included Conversion Software

Cons

Non-removable battery
Proprietary USB cable
Slow picture viewing
Encoding limited to WMA

Read complete article: MPIO ONE Review

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MobileWhack, via Aving, report the upcoming release of a new portable media player from MPIO, the MPIO HD-400.

MPIO will soon be releasing the HD-400, a hard drive equipped portable media player capable of handling MP3, WMA, ASF and OGG formats. You can also play video files and watch them on the 1.8″ TFT LCD. It also sports a radio tuner, voice recorder and photo viewer. Games are supported, but no details on this yet.

Equipped with an 8GB microdrive, it also features Microsoft’s Janus DRM - so it can also play audio/video protected by MS DRM. It can be charged using an generic cell phone adapter as well.

Read source article: MPIO HD-400 Media Player : MobileWhack.com

Technorati Tags: digital audio player, mp3 player, portable audio, portable entertainment, MPIO