Look at the Trekstor Vibez - the MP3 player with fresh design. Its 10cm length, a width 18mm and rounded scroll wheel and screen. Vibez playback in most major formats, the e280 has storage capacity of 8GB or 15GB, or roughly 4,200 tracks in the bigger version.

In addition, there’s an optional FM tuner card for radio, a DJ mode, a cross-fading button to blend together your tunes and a full colour TFT display. The rechargeable lithium ion battery offer you 20 hours playback per charge. The Trekstor Vibez should be available later this year, priced at 199 Euros for the 8GB model or 229 Euros for the 15GB player.

The Zing prototype was shown at the D4 conference, and is rolling out a service that enables other companies to build their own complete music infrastructures - content to player - without the need for a PC.

Working with Zing’s partners, Sirius and Yahoo, the device will use WiFi to download music and to upload data about what you are listening to. If you have one of these players, you can do fancy things, like see what your friends are listening to, then play samples of those tracks, or buy songs and albums directly from the player. If you try buy items when you’re not in range of a Wi-Fi access point, the product will queue up your requests and batch-process them when you do eventually connect.

The player will stream Sirius radio content (via the Wi-Fi connection) and will enable you to flag and buy the songs as you’re listening to the radio stream. Sounds too good to be true!

The Zing player comes with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections built in, along with a speaker and a microphone. Combined with the Wi-Fi radio, means the Zing player has all the hardware a voice-communication platform needs. So as a bonus, the software enables you to talk with your friends, walkie-talkie style, over the Wi-Fi network!

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Thomson electronics have launched a new MP3 player for sport fanatics.

The new Thomson Lyra PDP2662S have a water proof body. The MP3 player also displays vital information like calories burnt, pulse rate among others which will help you track your physical training. For navigation Thomson has incorporated a joystick and the battery life is about 40 hours. So basically you can enjoy the same limited track set for over 40 hours. The Thomson PDP2662S is powered by AA batteries and is available for just 70 Euros(90 USD).

LG launches in Korea the FM35 portable DMB TV and MP3 player.

The LG FM35 measures only 92×52x14mm with screen size is 2.4 inch. Battery allow to watch DMB TV for four hours or listen music for a 55 hours on a single charge.

The LG FM35 comes in 512MB, 1GB and 2GB memory configurations with $210, $241 and $294.

Venzero lunch a new MP3 player. The 8GB Venzero ONE also offers users a 2-inch colour display, and direct support for MusicMarker, the free service that automatically recognises song titles.

The company behind the player say that the Shareport offering means that uploading and downloading data to and from digital cameras, USB sticks, other MP3 players is simple.

The player supports MP3, WMA and Ogg Vorbis music formats, videos, JPG, BMP and TIF images, and even texts.
A built-in FM tuner on the Venzero ONE supports both automatic and manual channel searches.

Measuring just 98 x 58 x 14mm, the Venzero ONE will cost ?189.90 and will be available starting mid-June 2006.

JVC has launched two new flash MP3 players. They allow recording without PC. The JVC XA-F57 and XA-F107 are players with 512MB and 1GB of memory.

The 512MB XA-F57 is available in white, pink or silver, while the 1GB XA-F107 is offered in gray, pink or black. Both players support MP3, WMA and WMA-DRM files.

JVC’s new MP3 players will be available next month in the US. The XA-F57 will cost $99, while the XA-F107 will sell for about $149.

Fisher-Price is releasing an MP3 player for kids, so they can get their tunes on just as easily as any high-ranking executive during their daily commute. The iTod, as it has come to be known, has an unspecified internal memory, though we do know that it will come preloaded with few songs – identified by a symbol rather than words, for the babies who cannot quite read just yet – and two “spoken word” stories.

Set to launch sometime this summer, the iTod MP3 player will go for $78 each.

The Lenovo Easy Cube M500 is a new MP3 player with 2 3/4 inches on all sides and with a built-in speaker on the side. The Easy Cube M500 has no display and storage is strictly handled through any SD cards you have lying around the house, but at $50 the Lenovo makes a reasonable impulse buy.

German company AVM just announced their new FRITZ! Mini. This device combines a cordless phone and MP3 player with an information service allowing you to view news, weather, and sports reports on the color display. Well the handset will also alert you to incoming emails and text messages though how they accomplish the latter is a bit unclear. See, the 802.11g WiFi enabled FRITZ!Box is the key, it acts as a base station and information hub for the Mini by streaming music, information, and both VoIP or fixed-line calls directly to the handset. It doesn’t appear though, that the !Box packs any storage it’s own damned self, but you can slip in a Memory Stick or connect any MP3 player with USB support for playback to the Mini.

BenQ-Siemens EF51 is a new MP3 player with an built-in mobile phone. The BenQ EF51 designed with five keys for music control functions, below an 1.6-inch color display (262,144 colors, 128 x 128 pixels).

The new MP3 player support files in MP3, WMA, AAC and AAC+ formats. A new cool feature is the voice-operated music selection function, which allows users to simply tell their mp3 player the name of the song or artist and it starts playing it.

The BenQ-Siemens EF51 also has integrated 3D surround sound, a 6-band equalizer and enables music to be recorded directly from the integrated FM radio.

The new mp3 player is also equipped with an 1.3 megapixel digital camera. The BenQ-Siemens EF51 will be available in second quarter 2006 in white and black color variants.