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Nino's Portable Electronics Blog February 2006 Archive

By Nino Marchetti, About.com Guide to Portable Electronics

Revisiting the iPod family

Tuesday February 28, 2006
With Apple's announcement today of the new iPod HiFi stereo speaker system, it seems to make sense that a revisitng of the iPod family is in order. From the current, ... Read More

New iPod Hi-Fi is Apple's "Home Stereo. Reinvented." solution

Tuesday February 28, 2006
Apple today rolled out a new portable, high-fidelity speaker system designed to tightly integrate with their widely successful iPod digital audio player. The new iPod Hi-Fi is priced at $349 ... Read More

Wolverine Data unveils 120GB portable media player

Monday February 27, 2006
Wolverine Data, a developer of mobile products, over the weekend unveiled a portable media player. The new MVP 9120 is priced at $599 and should be available now. The MVP 9120, ... Read More

New Creative Vision:M case appears from Protective Solutions

Friday February 24, 2006
Protective Solutions, a maker of protective cases for electronics devices, earlier this week debuted a case for Creative’s Zen Vision:M MP3 player. The new invisibleShield for the Creative Zen Vision:M ... Read More

Griffin offers up TuneFlex for iPod nano

Wednesday February 22, 2006
Griffin Technology, a maker of popular iPod accessories, today announced a new flexible car mount and charger for the iPod nano. The new TuneFlex is priced at $39.99 and should ... Read More

Amazon to take on Apple and iTunes?

Thursday February 16, 2006
Here is an interesting story from today’s Wall Street Journal about Amazon.com as relates to portable entertainment. Apparently, as the Journal reports, Amazon is in talks with a number of ... Read More

Bicycles, the new iBikeMount for iPod and listening responsibly

Wednesday February 15, 2006
Here’s another new product designed to fit the on the go iPod lifestyle. The iBikeMount, announced yesterday by Strata Systems, is priced at $30 and should be available on March ... Read More

Motorola developing Windows Mobile music phones

Tuesday February 14, 2006
Microsoft and Motorola are teaming up to bring consumers greater choices in mobile music phones, the two companies announced this week. This is in addition to the Apple iTunes-enabled mobile ... Read More

Corgi's iCar replica models rock to the iPod

Monday February 13, 2006
In what looks to be one of the more unusual iPod accessory announcements of late, Corgi, a maker of die-cast scale models, today unveiled the iCar. This product, when it ... Read More

Apple makes iPod changes, adds SHOWTIME programming to iTunes

Wednesday February 8, 2006
Apple had a busy day yesterday with iPod announcements as they rolled out a larger storage capacity nano, dropped the price of the shuffle and added new video content to ... Read More

Portable DVD Players at CES 2006

Tuesday February 7, 2006
Rounding out my reports from CES 2006 in January is news about upcoming portable DVD players. Manufacturers like Samsung and Toshiba have a number of new innovative players planned for ... Read More

New Swiss Army Knife MP3 player powered by SigmaTel

Tuesday February 7, 2006
SigmaTel, a company which makes multimedia hardware found inside many MP3 players, yesterday said their technology was behind a new player from Swiss Army Knife maker Victorinox. The SWISSMEMORY s.beat ... Read More

Dell sends Pocket DJs into retirement

Monday February 6, 2006
It looks as if Dell is dumping their line of hard drive based MP3 players, according to a news story posted over at c|net’s News.com site today. The reason, though ... Read More

Portable Satellite Radio Players at CES 2006

Thursday February 2, 2006
Though the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show is now a distant memory, new products announced still linger in the minds of technology loving people everywhere. One product type in particular, portable ... Read More

Portable Media (Video) Players at CES 2006

Wednesday February 1, 2006
2006 seems to be the year of the portable media (video) players. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, there were a number of new product announcements ... Read More

Speck Products debuts new protective cases for portable satellite radios

Wednesday February 1, 2006
Speck Products, a maker of protective skin cases for iPods, today announced a new line of cases geared towards owners of portable satellite radio devices such as the Sirius S50 ... Read More

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