RAmos Q13 Review

RAmos is a brand relatively known in China for their digital audio players. Price wise, their products stand between the cheap Chinese clones that can be found on eBay and players from the larger manufacturers such as Meizu and Teclast. Quality wise, they also land somewhere in between.

In early February 2007, RAmos introduced a new player to their line of Q players, the Q13. At a glance, one would easily confuse the RAmos Q13 with the second generation iPod Nano as their appearances are almost identical. The Q13 is a Rockchip powered player that has a decent set of features. It plays music in MP3 and WMA, plays video in AVI, RM(VB), DAT, VOB, MPEG (conversion needed), and supports Micro SD cards with up to 2GB in storage.

Although the size, form-factor, and screen/button placements might be very similar to the 2G Nano, but the price is definitely not. Due to the nature of this player, this review will mainly compare the Q13 in regards to its differences to the 2G Nano.

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Cowon Q5: Holy Grail of PMPs

COWON is looking to release a new and juicy PMP player with WiFi, HSDPA wireless broadband connectivity, EDGE and GPRS. This is similar to Nokia’s N95 offering, without the calling and 5 MPx camera functionalities, of course. But it’s got DVR (digital video recording) functions and even a GPS with text-to-speech function with 11 million points of interests. The Q5 must be the most advanced and well-connected PMP to date with these other specs: 5-inch 800×480 pixel touchscreen, FM radio with recording capability, voice recording, and stereo speakers.

The COWON Q5 is set to be released Q2 2007 priced at $500 for the 40GB and $550 for the 60GB version. More pictures on Gizmodo.

RAmos q13 and Meizu Music Card at TGS

Look what we’ve got our fat, greasy gadget lovin’ fingers on today! Two iPod Nano clones competitors, one for each generation.

The two Chinese players, RAmos q13, a cheap iPod Nano 2G inspired player and Music Card M3 by the critically acclaimed Meizu, a player that strongly reminds of the iPod Nano 1G. Are these two players mere cheap clones or do they actually put the Nano to shame? Expect a more in-depth look into these players over the next few days.

Xbox 360 vs. PS3

Xbox 360 vs. Playstation 3

The two new generation game consoles are now released for some time and available for purchase. Although how much different are these two consoles from each other? The PS3 promised high end technology with a sleek design offering outstanding gameplay. Although, after releasing such hype for the PS3 but taking so long to release the product, the hype has died down and Sony is now having a hard time selling the PS3’s. At the same time Xbox 360 was release quite a while before PS3 causing people to go out and buy it first and also gave developers a chance to create games for it. Now that both of them are released which one do you think is better? (more…)

Meizu M3 Unboxed

The lucky folks over at iMP3.net have gotten their greasy hands on the Meizu Music Card before us! They have carefully photographed the unboxing and all the functions of the player. Do not miss this folks, this is gadget pr0n at its best! 13 additional photos after the break.

[iMP3 via Meizu BBS]

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