2008 was a great year to explore new gadgets and work among electronic gadgets. There were many revolutionary gadgets being released and used last year. There have been several tough competitions going skin against skin with several gadget companies. Mostly MP3 players have been cheap and easy with all the expenses being maneuvered even with the extremely stylish and well manufactured models.

The market has been flooded with MP3 players that are of varied kinds and thus not really easy to choose from. For receiving 100% satisfaction one has to keep on experimenting with new kinds but the price is also a concern. Hopefully last year brought many cheap options for music lovers. An expensive MP3 player did not necessarily give you quality guarantee.

There had to be several things like quality, durability, battery life as well as the clarity of the sound. All these features come about to make a great MP3 player and the missing links could fade away bringing you a bad taste in case of lower priced ones. Here are the top 5 ones that should rock your world for now:

Zune:

If you are tired of your old MP3 Player you should be able to have fun with the new Zune. There is something really noticeable and worthwhile when playing around with the Zune digital MP3.

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It is supportive of WMA, MP3 as well as AAC. These are the best options for anyone to listen to music through their iPod and this incredible engineering masterpiece makes it possible for you to enjoy it all and with easy. From video streaming to audio quality, it is fairly easy to have access to all the great stuff that you would want on an iPod.

Cowon iAudio D2:

This multipurpose iAudio D2 MP3 Player is all you could be asking for in terms of quality. It is a cool gadget for your listening pleasure bringing much pleasure to its wide range of users. It is compact and yet brings you excellent video quality.

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It has multipurpose port media and supports QVGA as well as the 30 fps for video as well as media files. There is another cool feature that is unique with iAudio as well as D2 with its output units being able to give you great digital quality. There is also the digital quality radio option to enjoy.

Sony NWZ S738F Walkman:

This NWZS738F MP3 Player Walkman brings you excellent sound quality as well as a great battery back up extension. There is 40 hours of consistent music to be played in the background without additional charging. Anyone is going to be really satisfied with this gadget.

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It is a neat little piece of great technological work. It is of top notch quality and gives you extremely precise physical buttons that you find easy to control. There is a greater sense of control involved with physical button applications than with touch screen. There is also a built in radio coming with it.

SanDisk Sansa Clip:

This is a Clip MP3 player. This Clip will really entertain and surprise you with its excellent taste and great sound quality. It comes with a 4” USB. There won’t be a jamboree of accessories but enough to get you through the day.

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It satisfies you with its excellent sound quality and it also comes with a scratch proof body for greater purposes and simplicity. It is really great to use this phone due to its OLED screen that keeps it simple and easy to play around with it.

Apple iPod Touch:

This is the 2nd generation MP3 Player that has been ruling the market since last year. There is a revolution being created through Apple players which favor users to make widely reviewed gurus of music to go for this multitouch great thing.

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It is one of those mega entertainment tools that bring you a lot to do. There is WiFi and a lot more of great things to get you through! From photos to web images, videos, etc. you will be able to get access to everything.

Coming to the scene in December 2008, iriver E50 has been unboxed and tested by Le Journal du Geek. With a full pack of shots, here we get hands on its details provided by the unwrapping team.

Detailing And Specifications

The pretty sleek device from PMP; Australia’s leading media service company, is not a jumbo pack of features, yet attractive. Seemingly workable for basic functionality, it is a slimmer mostly used by MP3 fans as a popular brand.

Physical Appearance

With an elegant metallic finish the player has a very defining look. On the contrary the back is black plastic matte finished body with a distinctive feature of remaining indifferent; not taking fingerprints.

Specifications

This slimmer comes with 2GB, 4GB or 8GB memory, available for 69 Euros for its 4GB version. This is a small screen; 1.8 “(176 × 220px) device qualitative of TFT LCD 262k color. It has a tuner / FM recorder, plus a microphone, 5EQ and an MP3, FLAC, APE, WMA, WAV, SMV, JPEG, BMP. USB 2.0, with 52h audio capabilities with 88 × 38.8 × 7.7 mm dimensions for 40g.

Functionality

iriver E50’s navigation base is D-Click system which is common in almost each navigation device with a square central button allowing to click on 4 different sides. Volume control is not that easy as the buttons are located on the top corners of the device. With a Flash interface, USB port for mini USB standard on the bottom, 3.5 mm jack can be seen.

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Quality Music

With an easy and simple interface iriver E50 offer a standard music quality. The screen displays a simple album with the play backs. Accessing music options is as easy as keeping the tab pressed for a little longer, delete, play or skip, it’s nothing intricate.

Watching Videos

With a small screen as iriver E50, movie watching is not a fun. It’s a bit intricate as to save a video as encoding the size of the screen will be required.

Other Features

Like video, camera is of a normal standard too. FM Tuner is there too, with an option to select between MTP and UMS, copy/paste from Windows Explorer is easy.

The said shop is situated in Oklahoma. The news was reported by TV One News.

Ogle bought this MP3 device only for $18, and was surprised to find the data when attached the device to his computer. The said MP3 device contained 60 data files providing information of U.S soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Details found in the device contain information as U.S social security numbers and personal details like pregnancies of female troops. Some files also detailed the information of troops and equipment, and mission briefings deployed at Afghani basis such as Bagram.

It was found after investigation that some numbers listed in the files are still working with warnings in accordance to the content release. The warnings state that content release is “prohibited by federal law.”

Peter Cozens, director of Victoria University of Wellington’s Strategic Studies Department states, “This is just slack administrative procedures which are indeed a cause of embarrassment”. Cozens also added, “It’s the sort of thing which ought not really to be in the public domain.”

It has also been reported by Los Angeles Times that some previously found devices also contained critical military informations like maps, charts, military secrets, and military intelligence reports. It is to be noted here that such informations should be kept secret and shouldn’t be disclosed in public.

I carry a wide variety of songs on my 8 GB iPhone and sometimes I find it very irritating when I have the shuffle turned-on and right after a classic rock song I get a trance, think about it.. Dj Tiesto after Metallica. Haven’t you, like me always wished for a more intelligent shuffle system which wouldn’t interrupt with the flow.

The problem with all the shuffle systems out there is that they pick random songs from the library without taking into account the genre or the tempo. So what the researchers at Microsoft’s Zune department are trying to do is, develop a system that creates a shuffle playlist by reading tags and meta data information like tempo and genre for example. The best part however is that, it is not a static piece of software that just does what it has been coded for.. it will not only line up a new song by reading the songs played but its logic can also be controlled by voting for the tracks.

Wow, so for once is it going to be Apple following in Microsoft’s tracks!! Hate to admit it but if Steve’s boys don’t come out with their own version of the Smart Shuffle System, I’d be one disappointed iPhone owner. How can you own an Apple device that’s in some way inferior to something Microsoft manufactured! I for one hope by the time Apple plans to release firmware 2.0 they have something like this silently incorporated into the player.. fingers crossed.

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