People who listen to personal music players for only five hours a week at a high volume may be doing permanent damage to their hearing.
A competent player with decent audio quality and some cool customisation options, but the screen is too small and navigation can be slow-going.
The new-model iPod Nano is tall, thin, and well-built. Maybe just a little too well-built for its own good. Let's smash it!
We go step-by-step through the process of activating the latest iPod Nano's spoken menus and tweaking them to your taste.
Available in 8GB and 16GB versions, these wafer-thin players have built-in noise-cancelling technology and a 2-inch, 320x240-pixel LCD.
Korean company Cowon's upcoming Curve touchscreen MP3 player is set to take on the iPod Touch this holiday season.
Two high-res, Wi-Fi toting, high-capacity handhelds from Archos will be hitting shelves in October. Just don't call them media players.
Got a bunch of video you want to put on your iPod? Here's how to get it into the right format for watching on the go.
SanDisk and the big four music labels will shortly make albums available on microSD cards. But is the format a great idea or a fiddly mess?
Sony unveiled an ultra-thin TV, a rubbable laptop and an unusual tube speaker, amongst other things at its Uchi event today.
They weren't mentioned at the iPod launch and you won't see them on Apple's website, but 4GB fourth-generation iPod Nanos are turning up on retail shelves across Australia.
Apple has set the Nano back on track with the thinnest, lightest design yet, and has features that are hard to ignore.
Metallica's newest album is part of a disturbing trend for 'dumbing down' music for iPod listening and is ruining it for everybody, writes Ty Pendlebury.
We take a look at all of Apple's iPods past and present. It's sure been a journey since that chunky, black-and-white original.
If you've been holding back, now is the time: the second-gen Touch is an excellent media player, and the addition of third-party apps extends the fun for everyone, no matter where your interests lie.
Apple has announced its new range of 2008 iPods which include a return to the original form-factor for the Nano and only a single iPod Classic.
At a media event in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled a revamped iPod line-up including thinner Nanos, a 120GB iPod Classic, iPod Touch, and iTunes 8. Here are the essential details.
Victorians are set to get a taste of the Apple retail action, with the company's third Australian store opening in Melbourne's Chadstone shopping centre.
Apple may be thinking about adding new ways to improve the multitouch interface work that is central to the company's plan for the future.
Sources at iLounge have unearthed two compelling design blueprints for Apple's next generation of iPods.
A competent player with decent audio quality and some cool customisation options, but the screen is too small and navigation can be slow-going.
Available in 8GB and 16GB versions, these wafer-thin players have built-in noise-cancelling technology and a 2-inch, 320x240-pixel LCD.
Apple iPod Nano (4th generation)
Apple has set the Nano back on track with the thinnest, lightest design yet, and has features that are hard to ignore.
Apple iPod Touch (2nd generation)
If you've been holding back, now is the time: the second-gen Touch is an excellent media player, and the addition of third-party apps extends the fun for everyone, no matter where your interests lie.
Have you tried squeezing blood out of a stone? How about music out of a pebble? The Samsung S2 Pebble is a screenless MP3 player with an LED just under the surface that blinks different colours as you listen to music.
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The new-model iPod Nano is tall, thin, and well-built. Maybe just a little too well-built for its own good. Let's smash it!
Step inside Sony's uchi, sorry, home
Sony unveiled an ultra-thin TV, a rubbable laptop and an unusual tube speaker, amongst other things at its Uchi event today.
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