Recent study shows that China has taken down 30% of the MP3 player market worldwide. But the designs of China mp3 players are look very similar to either Apple iPod or Creative Zen or some mobile phone design. Sometimes I wonder, China has how many own original design.

Lately, Shenzhen Smart has released a 2” LCD mp3 player MP4-2010A. From the casing, it has exactly the similar buttons to Sony Ericsson W810 mobile phone. Besides that, this player has the same functionality as most of the players in China market. It plays MPEG, WAV, ASF, MOV AVI, WMV and WMA format. It has a built in speaker and FM radio functionality.

Today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs posted an open letter on their web site mentioning that Apple will release a SDK for iPhone and iPod Touch. Let me explain SDK stands for software development kit. It is a tool to let software developers to develop applications based on the standard example and API released by the suppliers. Without the SDK, software developers will not have the proper platform to develop software, but they could do it by illegally hack into the system.

So, hacking isn’t what Apple wants to see, they also can’t any stand the pressure from the community. With the SDK, more cool software will be released in the next 6 months, which would definitely boost the sales of iPhone.

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iPhone SDK February 2008

While all the tech sites recently all focus on the latest 6th generation iPod, but Microsoft has already prepared to launch their very own MP3 player - Zune 2.0. The official launching date will be on 16th Octorber. From the picture shown below, seem like they have changed the navigation wheel into a weird sharp. Maybe this is a good way to differentiate iPod and Zune.

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Zune 2.0 Coming

Rolly SEP-10BT is Sony latest wireless audio player with 1GB of memory. It is designed with an egg shape and is Bluetooth enabled. You are able to use your cell phone as a player and play through Rolly’s speaker.

It plays MP3, AAC and ATRAC format audio files. The motion of the player looks weird to me, when it just moving forward and backwards. This new gadget will be released on 29^th September and with a price of USD350.

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Sony Rolly Wireless Audio Player

A “Get a Mac” spoof video clip by Microsoft. Microsoft claims that it is easier to upload music onto Zune with just one simple click than Ipod. And not so easy to be scratched than Ipod too. But I still think getting a brown color Zune is not a good idea. There should be other better color for Zune to be.

After the Xbox360 for selling 100 bucks on Amazon, which have cause their server down, now the next best deal we think is the Zune! It is selling for at a limit volume of 1000 pieces at the price of $90. The retail price of Zune is $250, thus you will be saving $160 bucks.

Now Amazon has learn to be clever, they will select the winner randomly based on the voting

Come back on Tuesday (12:00 a.m. - 11:59 p.m. Pacific time) to find out whether you are among the customers randomly selected to purchase the item you voted for at the price shown here.

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This mp3 player only has the thickness of 0.69cm! Oh no! Samsung has bring their technology from the slimmest handphone into mp3 player world. The debut of this sexy player will be on the coming CES2007. We until then will see more specification revealed.

Spec Update: 1.8-inch OLED display, FM Tuner, up to 4GB of storage and MP3/WMA/OGG playback.
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Sexy Samsung YP-K3 Mp3 Player

Japanese manufacture - Kenwood is releasing the world’s smallest hard disk based DAP. This music player comes with 10GB HDD within a 62 x 44 x 17mm casing and weight only around 78 grams. Other than usual audio format, it supports Microsoft WMA DRM10 and Napster To Go audio. Currently the price in Japan is 40000 Yen, would be around 350usd.