Hacha planning to release the new MP3 players, PA20 & PC20, by Sept 22 . The Hacha PA20 is a 3.2-inch, touchscreen media player, with 4GB of memory, the ability to play all of media formats (MP3, AVI, XviD, WMA, WAV, APE, FLAC), and a microSD slot for an additional 4GB of storage. Hacha PA20 will cost $175. The $170 PC20 has all the same features, though its 3-inch screen isn’t touch-sensitive, and it totally rips off the iPhone’s design. Both players are available for pre-order right now from internet.

Apple unveiled a new iPod, called Touch. The new iPod Touch equipped Wi-Fi capabilities that will work with the new Wi-Fi iTunes music stored.

“Apple today introduced the new iPod touch featuring Apple’s revolutionary multi-touch user interface that enables users to find and enjoy all of their music, videos and more on its gorgeous widescreen display with just the touch of a finger. First introduced on iPhone, the multi-touch interface uses pioneering new software to present the perfect user interface for each application. The iPod touch also includes Wi-Fi wireless networking, the first on any iPod, and three amazing applications that use it??”Safari, the most advanced browser on any mobile device, lets users wirelessly view web pages just as they look on their computer, and features Google Search or Yahoo! oneSearch; Apple??™s YouTube application lets users wirelessly watch over 10 million free videos from the Internet??™s most popular video website; and the new iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store lets users wirelessly browse, preview and buy songs and albums from the most popular online music store in the world. The iPod touch is an unbelievable 8 mm thin, and is priced starting at just $299.

???The iPod touch is a landmark iPod, ushering in a whole new generation of features based on its revolutionary multi-touch interface and built-in Wi-Fi wireless networking,??? said Steve Jobs, Apple??™s CEO. ???People are going to be amazed at how thin it is and how much it does.???

With its gorgeous 3.5-inch widescreen display, iPod touch is perfect for watching movies and TV shows, as well as viewing photos and album art. iPod touch has a built-in accelerometer that automatically senses when you rotate it into its landscape position. When you??™re in music, it automatically switches to Cover Flow so you can browse your music collection by album cover artwork with just a flick of a finger. When in Photos, it automatically displays the photo in its landscape aspect ratio; and when in Safari it displays the web page horizontally. iPod touch also has a built-in ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts the display??™s brightness. iPod touch features up to 22 hours of audio playback and up to five hours of video playback.

Also Apple released its most exciting iPod lineup ever with the iPod shuffle in five new colors; iPod classic holding up to 40,000 songs; the incredible all new iPod nano with video playback; and the breakthrough iPod touch with a revolutionary multi-touch user interface. iPod owners can choose from a vast ecosystem of accessories with over 4,000 products made specifically for the iPod including cases, fitness accessories, speaker systems and iPod connectivity in over 70 percent of US automobiles.

The new iPod touch will be available later this month. The 8GB iPod touch model is $299 (US) and the 16GB iPod model is $399 (US). iPod touch requires a Mac with a USB 2.0 port, Mac OS X 10.4.10 or later and iTunes 7.4; or a Windows PC with a USB 2.0 port and Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or Professional (Service Pack 2) or later and iTunes 7.4. Internet access is required and a broadband connection is recommended, fees may apply. The iTunes Store is not available in all countries.”

Meizu has announced its second generation M6 MP3 player. The M6 Mini Player SL is just 7.3-mm thin, and featured a 2.4-inch display. The new M6 player is also support for lossless Monkey’s Audio (APE) file format. That slim profile forced Meizu into a smaller battery but the player still manages to pump 26-hours of audio and 4.5-hours of video off a single charge. Meizu’s M6 will be present in China on September 25th in 2/4/8GB capacities in prices up to $146.

Apple is due to drop a new Inventec Appliances manufactured, flash-based widescreen “iPod video” with touch-interface (widely rumored to carry the iPod Touch brand) sporting WiFi and an iPhone-like UI when it ships “at the end of this month or early October.” Also in the cards is a Foxconn manufactured iPod nano with more storage and iPhone-like UI at the same prices as existing models and higher capacity iPod shuffles from Asustek.

The Apple prepare the next generation iPod. Specifically, will it or won’t it feature a device-wide touch-screen running OS X — a stripped down iPhone if you will. Enter DigiTimes, with their hit-or-miss record of Taiwanese sources, who are calling for a touch-screen iPod to launch in August. Sources at “upstream suppliers” claim that WinTek — a former iPod panel supplier back in the black-and-white iPod days — won the order for the capacitive touch screen panels. With Jobs himself calling the iPhone the “best iPod yet,” we certainly don’t doubt that Apple’s working on a touch-screen iPod (possibly with WiFi).

Creative announced the new Zen Wav MP3 player. The Creaive Zen Wav MP3 player has 2 GB of capacity and it supports MP3, WMA, WAV playback, as well as transcoded AVI video and JPEG images.

Zen Wav music player offers up to 30 hours of continuous playback with the embedded battery, as Creative promise. Zen Wav measures 85.0 x 42.0 x 12.5 mm and weights 49g.

SDI Technologies proudly presents the new i-Home iH8, yet another iPod dock with an alarm clock. The iH8 is the new updated version of the i-Home iH5, and is compatible with all iPods. The new version has a new design that?s very similar to the , and a LCD screen that’s large enough to tell what time it is, or which song is playing.

The i-Home iH8 is equipped with two 3W speakers, and comes with a remote control. You can use it with the AC adapter or with batteries. As expected, you can wake up to the sound of your favourite tunes, or with the FM/AM radio. The iH8 has a dimmer function so the light from the screen won?t bother you while you?re sleeping, and a sleep timer that can be set to reduce the volume of the songs gradually when you?re falling asleep.

Football (or Soccer) has managed to influence the designers of gadgets for some time; we have seen many different items that follow this sport inspiration. Yet the design of this MP3 player though football related, looks remarkably like the core of uranium that you see in films when the villains are preparing their nuclear strike.

This simple design is probably one of the most distinctive shaped MP3 players that are available on the market today; its lines and details make it a very desirable item indeed. Size wise it is only a mere four and half centimeters across which further makes this very attractive, to put it into perspective it is only about the size of a small orange, so it can be quite easily be put into a pocket or even used as the manufacturers suggest on a key chain, but it might be worth taking the ear phones when you open the front door to your house.

As for the features of the player, even though it is small in size it does still have a OLED screen of 80 x 48 resolution, a stopwatch, can receive up to thirty of the preset FM radio stations and comes with 256 mb, 512 mb and 1 gb of internal memory, so this MP3 has all the desired qualities along with a great design.

Prices will start at around $62.

Creative unveiled its new $39.99 ZEN Stone. ZEN Stone is a tiny 1GB MP3 player can hold up to 250 songs and can operate for 10 hours on a single charge (12 hours for the iPod Shuffle). A wide palette of colors is also available: black, blue, green, pink, red and white.

“The Creative ZEN Stone, at just $39.99, opens up a huge new market for MP3 players,” said Creative chairman and CEO Sim Wong Hoo. “This is an incredible price for everyone to get a superior quality MP3 player capable of holding up to 250 songs. Whether it’s your only player or a second player to take with you anywhere, the low price lets you think of MP3 players in a whole new way. You can loan it to a friend just like you would a CD or a mix tape and not have to worry about it, but you’ll like it so much that you’ll want another, so you always have one with you.”

The ZEN Stone will also come to market with the $39.99 Creative TravelSound ZEN Stone which turns the MP3 player into a portable speaker system. The TravelSound ZEN Stone will be available in black or white and can operate for 20 hours with two AAA batteries.

The ZEN Stone and the TravelSound ZEN Stone will be available at online retailers and in B&M stores on May 14.

iRiver released the B20 MP3 player in April. The iRiver B20 supports DMB and DAB digital TV/audio. The new MP3 player has a 2.4-inch LCD display, support for various media formats including MP3, WMA, OGG, MPEG-4, WMV9, and JPG and has a SD card slot for expansion.
The iRiver B20 is available in 2GB or 4GB.