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by Jordan Grodecki on September 30, 2009
The EU has just passed regulations to limit the maximum volume of all MP3 players sold in the continent to 80dB. Most in the area are already limited to 100dB as a French law imposes, and manufactures...
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by Chris Matier on September 9, 2009
Steve Jobs himself showed up today to deliver the news about new iPods in Apple land. He looked healthy, happy, and he had plenty of good news for iPod users. Almost everything got a bump of some sort...
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by Chris Matier on September 2, 2009
I have owned a Zune, and to be honest, I really enjoyed it. If it had a disk mode or OS X support, I would still own it, and I would have already pre-ordered a Zune HD. But alas, Microsoft has no inte...
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by Chris Matier on August 27, 2009
My iPhone 3GS is Bluetooth ready and fully supports the A2DP profile. This is a great thing when I want to use my Bluetooth headphones, but it is perfectly useless if I want to use my iPod dock and sp...
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by Chris Matier on July 24, 2009
When I am on the road (which lately has been too often), I use my iPhone exclusively as my alarm clock.I wind down at night with "NatureSpace" (iTunes link), and I wake to the "Strum&qu...
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by Chris Matier on July 17, 2009
If someone were to seriously try to dethrone the Apple behemoth that happily rampages around the digital distribution landscape, they would have a tremendous challenge on their hands. They would need ...
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by Jordan Grodecki on July 14, 2009
Despite it being only 3 months ago when the 1billion mark was breached, another 500million applications have been downloaded. If you sit down and actually think about it... this is pretty darn amazing...
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by Chris Matier on July 6, 2009
My new iPhone has 32GB of storage space, and I have about 25GB free. My entire music collection only takes up 9GB of space, which is why the 120GB on a 5th Generation iPod Classic just blows my mind. ...
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by Jordan Grodecki on May 30, 2009
Shots of Sony's next PSP iteration have managed to find their way onto the web...and it is a curious looking beast indeed. Rather than sticking to the traditional "buttons on the face"...
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by Chris Matier on May 29, 2009
In a world of converging devices, is there is absolutely no room for a single purpose device. The iPhone and iPod touch have made that perfectly clear; if you are going to launch a successful portable...
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by Chris Matier on April 20, 2009
If you are an iPod touch or iPhone user, then you know that bopping around the music controls on your device can be a bit cumbersome. I am not implying that they are horrid, but if you keep your play...
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by Chris Matier on April 13, 2009
It has been a while for the "Buy This Not That" series, but I am glad it is back. This time, we are putting the Samsung P3 up against the iPod Nano. I have to say, if you are looking for a ...
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by Chris Matier on April 8, 2009
I'm telling you, the day that the iPhone 3.0 firmware lands (legally) on my iPhone, I am running out and buying the Jabra HALO wireless headphones. I have had nothing but great luck with the quali...
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by Chris Matier on March 17, 2009
Jordan wrote the other day regarding just how bad of an idea the new iPod Shuffle from Apple is, and I cannot disagree with anything he said. I can confirm most of it though. Those funky headphones wi...
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by Chris Matier on March 11, 2009
Portable DVD players are nothing special these days; you can often pick them up at a big box store for less than $50. So, if Phillips wants their new DCP951 Portable DVD player to stand out, it needs ...
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by Chris Matier on March 10, 2009
Let me start by saying that I don't work out nearly enough, but when I do, music is a must. I have tried running with my iPhone, and I was afraid that it would get me mugged or that I would drop ...
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by Jordan Grodecki on February 25, 2009
Sony have been kicking out some pretty damn good personal audio players recently, their revived walkman line spearheading the flash player audio quality drive. Seriously, there's very little out...
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by Chris Matier on February 3, 2009
iPods are arguably the most popular portable media player in the world. My family alone owns five of the things if you count the iPhone and kid's shuffles. The sheer number of iPods in the wild me...
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by Chris Matier on January 22, 2009
Some would argue that paying for radio is absurd. Users of Sirius XM would beg to differ; they pay for the premium satellite radio service. But are Sirius XM users loyal enough to pay more? We are abo...
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by Chris Matier on January 8, 2009
I have admit it, when I see the brand name "WowWee," I picture cheesy plastic robots and children's toys. That is why I am torn by a series of video projectors, pico projectors to be ex...
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by Chris Matier on December 24, 2008
It's officially winter in Colorado, and I am cold - very cold. If you live in the half of the hemisphere that is freezing right now, then getting out to exercise, going to class, or waiting for th...
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by Chris Matier on December 16, 2008
In our current design area, it seems you can tell how great a product is by the number of RanDomLY capitalized words in its title. I guess that makes the iDesign SongView Alarm one of the coolest gadg...
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by Chris Matier on October 30, 2008
First, Walmart was rumored to offer the iPhone in the near future. Then, it was announced that Walmart would be offering the Google Phone (G1). Now, Walmart will be offering MP3s for 74 cents. That...
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by Chris Matier on September 22, 2008
There are gadgets I have bought because of the hype, and now they either have hit the streets via Craigslist, or are currently gathering dust. Take my son's Wii for example - its only job right no...
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by Mark Rollins on September 18, 2008
For some reason, the Audio Pro Porto Go (say that ten times really fast) reminds me of Paris Hilton. That, or some high society gal who wants to take her music everywhere, and needs an iPod speaker th...
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by Mark Rollins on September 12, 2008
Yesterday, I reported on the Altec Lansing's The Orbit, an iPod speaker system. If you are still looking for an iPod dock of some kind, you might want to check out Ewoo's three new models.
T...
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by Chris Matier on September 10, 2008
In case you were hiding under a rock hiding from today's scheduled "end of the world," yesterday was a major day for Apple and their darling iPod family. Oh yeah, and steve Jobs is not d...
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by Chris Matier on August 27, 2008
A few months ago, I recommended the Amazon Kindle over the Sony E-Book reader, and while my recommendation still stands, I am urging you to have a bit of patience before you dive into the kindle world...
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by Chris Matier on August 26, 2008
I think when products, even when they are designed for iPhones and iPods, add the "i" to their names, it smacks of desperation. The cvt multi Media Center doesn't bother with the iMonike...
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by Mark Rollins on August 25, 2008
I like how the Portable Media Player (PMP) market is improving all the time, and one of the newest improvements that I can see is the Cowon L3.
Very little details are known about this PMP, but we d...
