iPod’s in Space.

If you look very very closely at this picture, you can see a 5th generation iPod docked in a charger.


It’s not enough to have world-wide domination of the MP3 Player market, they need to get their product into outerspace aswell.

Right on Apple. Give Microsoft a run for their money!!

BenQ dog tag MP3 player goes a little too far with World Trade Centre imagery on its advertising.

BenQ will recently be bringing out a new ‘dog-tag’ style MP3 player called the MusiQ. A great looking little player that comes in 512MB and 1GB file size, coming with a built in microSD card.

Two different types are available for boys and girls and some reports say that for a limited time BenQ are giving away limited edition gift set with carry cases and arm braclets with the players that are due for release on Dec 15th.

One very interesting point that seems to be making it’s way around the blogsphere is that BenQ are using images of the crumbled World Trade Centre to push it’s products. In my opinion, this is incredibly tacky and in very very poor taste. Surely the marketing department at BenQ could have come up with something better than that?

Ipod phone or iphone on the horizon?

From all accounts it looks as though Apple is bringing out an iphone. There has been a lot of buzz around the net of late about Apple’s foray into the mobile phone / mp# player combination, however a new patent application filed by Apple very strongly suggests that an iphone is on the way.

The patent describes “a portable computing device capable of wireless communications, comprising: an enclosure that surrounds and protects the internal operational components of the portable gadget, the enclosure including a structural wall formed from a ceramic material that permits wireless communication”.

The patent was filed back in Aug but was made public by the US Patent and Trademark Office on Friday.

Technology Magazine Red Herring reported that Apple has contracted a firm located in Taiwan to make over 12 million units of this new device but this has not been confirmed or denied by Apple.

Keep your eyes out early next year as this is the rumored release date of Apple’s latest gadget.

If you liked the Samsung YP-K5, check out the Samsung YP-K3

Scheduled to make a debut at CES in Janurary, Samsung are tempting us with the delivery of a new MP3 player. Slimmer than the Samsung YP-K5, the YP-K3 seems to be a lot slicker and thinner than the last iteration of the model. One interesting rumor is that this new version of the player isn’t going to have the tell tale in-built speaker that made the YP-K5 so different.

All in all it looks like a very cool gadget set to hit the marketplace next year for all you technology heads.