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In efforts to showcase the best looking portable media player’s and digital audio player’s at IFA, iriver has announced a new PMP and a GPS with media capabilities.

The first device announced is the iriver P20, which was originally shown off at the past CES in January 2008. It sports a 4.1-inch AMOLED touch screen, which is a bigger screen than most PMP’s these days. In addition, the battery life is pretty good, 12 hours for music, 9 hours for video, and up to 8 hours with DMB TV. Although, I do think the battery life when just playing music should be a bit higher, but for video and DMB TV, it’s good. It is expected to come with either an 80GB or 120GB hard drive. 

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At CES last January, I dropped by the iriver booth to see some of their newest products.  That is where I first saw the Spinn MP4 Player, and when I say saw, I mean, just saw.  They did not give me the opportunity to try it out, even though they were very excited about one of their latest portable media players.  It was completely under glass, and I had doubts whether the model even worked. 

Well, the Spinn has recently been caught on video in action, and it is everything iriver said it would be.  See that cylindrical thing on the right side of the unit?  That is the controller for the Spinn, which allow you “spin” it like an old school radio dial. 

However, if you don’t want to “touch that dial”, so to speak, you can always use the 3.2-inch touch sensitive screen which is demonstrated in this video after the jump. 

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iriver’s Korean site has started showing off the company’s latest portable media player, which was originally previewed during CES 2008, the iriver Spinn. This 3.3-inch player sports and AMOLED touchscreen display and haptic feedback feature. It supports various music formats including MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC and ASF as well as video formats including MPEG4, WM9 and WMA. In addition, this player also features DMB for mobile TV viewing.

Other features of the iriver Spinn include a radio, flash, Bluetooth, a new analog SPINN Wheel, and either 8GB or 4GB of flash-based storage. It now boasts of 24-hour audio lifespan and comes in a metal and plastic casing that is just 0.42-inches thick.

The iriver Spinn is now available for pre-order in Korea with an suggested retail of around $259 for the 4GB model and $299 for the 8GB model. No word yet as to when the Spinn will be released internationally, although rumor has it that it will hit the UK market around August.

Via [Akihabara News] Product [iriver]

iriver has announced that they would be rolling out their latest portable media player, the Lplayer, in the US market. Basically, this PMP is one of the smallest and most compact that iriver has to offer.

It sports a 2-inch LCD screen and comes with a familiar “D-click control system” like various other iriver players, such as the Clix. iriver has added more media support to the player such as FLAC, OGG, XviD, MP3, WAV, WMA, MPG, and WMV. In addition, it comes with an integrated FM radio, and it can also record radio, however there was no mention on how long it can record for. The battery life is pretty good, as it can pump out tunes for 12 hours straight, and 4 hours when playing videos.

In case you like the rock band Muse, then you will be happy to know that the first 100,000 players come with a 14 minute Muse video preloaded. The Lplayer is available in a few different colors including black, pink, and white. It will come in two different models, including a 4GB model that will sell for $110, and the 8GB model will sell for $160.

Product [Amazon] Via [electronista]

iriver has announced their latest MP3 player, and its sure to have a cooler name than feature set. However, moving on the Volcano T7 comes in the form of a long, skinny player that is shaped similar to the original iPod Shuffle. The T7, unlike the original Shuffle does however offer a small OLED display.  In addition to the display, the T7 features an FM radio, has radio and voice recording capabilities, an 8 preset equalizer, a USB 2.0 port and can play MP3, WMA, ASF, OGG audio files. The Volcano T7 offers either 2GB or 4GB of storage and will retail for around $48 and $78 respectively. It will be available in your choice of white, black, blue, pink or chocolate.

Via [Akihabara News]

During CES 2008, iriver announced many new and exciting PMP’s; one specifically was called the iriver Spinn. At that time, there was not that much known about it, but they have recently released some more details on it.

The Spinn will come in three different models, the 4GB, 8GB, and 16B. Additionally, it will come with a 3.2-inch AMOLED screen with a 480 x 272 pixel resolution, DAB radio in the UK, Bluetooth integration, support for Adobe Flash video, and a 3D acceleration chip. It supports a bunch of formats including MP3, OGG, WMA, MP4, and WMV. The battery life is pretty good too, you can listen to audio for 25 hours, 5 hours for video, and 4 hours for digital radio.

So far, the Spinn is expected to go on sale in the UK around August, no word on any pricing yet. Stay tuned for more details as they become available.

Via [Crave]

Nope that’s not a portable GPS unit. In fact, its the latest portable media player offering from iriver, dubbed the “P.ple P10.” First introduced at CES 2008, the P10 was expected to release Q1 2008, but iriver was a little late in their delivery. Regardless, the company has now officially launched their iPod Touch rival in two forms: The iRiver P10 Standard ($328) and Pro ($398). Spec-wise, both models sport a 600MHz processor running a stripped down version of Windows CE, 4-inch TFT touch screen, 800x480 pixel resolution, e-book reader, and a 33GB hard drive. Both models also support PDF, Word and Excel files, and can playback Flash, MPEG, WMA, XivD, MP3, and WAV file formats. However, the P10 Pro adds an electronic dictionary (in English, Chinese, and Japanese) and a DMB digital TV tuner that’s only usable in Korea (so, I doubt this will make it Stateside).

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The iriver D5 multimedia e-dictionary has made it to the US market and is now available at the iriver online store. Available in either a 2GB or 4GB model, the D5 is available in black or white and retails for $299 and $349 respectively.

For those prices, you’ll get features that include a 3-inch 480 x 272 TFT display, 52-key QWERTY keyboard, digital audio support, playback support for AVI video, digital photo support for JPG, GIF and BMP files, a text viewer, FM radio and voice recorder. As for the dictionaries, the D5 offers English-English, Korean-English, Korean-Japanese and Korean-Chinese.

The D5’s price may seem a bit on the expensive side, but if electronic dictionary is your kind of gadget, you might find it reasonable since you’ll get the portable media features as well.

Product [iriver] Via [Pocketables]

The latest portable media player from iriver, the P10 may seem just like your ordinary portable media player with its 4.3-inch LCD with an 800 x 480 resolution, 33GB internal memory, as well as WMV and Mpeg video support. But aside from being a cool looking player, the P10 can also be used as an e-book reader with support for PDF, Word and Excel files. So, you can listen to music while reading your favorite novel in e-book format. In addition, the P10 also features a GUI that recognized handwriting similar to the Palm Pilot’s handwriting recognition technology, aside from having several dictionaries that include English, Chinese and Japanese languages.

The iriver P10 portable media player will be available in a DMB-less Basic version for around $310 and the Pro version with DMB for around $387. Unfortunately for us living outside of Korea, the P10 will most likely have to remain on our wish list for a while.

Via [Akihabara News]

There are so many small MP3 players on the market today, most of which are pretty nice. This makes it hard to decide which one to choose, however, the good guys at Generation MP3 recently offered up a nice comparison chart to offer some comparison between four players that are currently on the market. The four MP3 players being compared include the iPod Shuffle, Samsung’s new S2, iriver’s MPlayer, and the Creative Zen Stone. All of these MP3 players are really good and they all come with their own unique features. Let the battle begin!

So far, the lightest music player is Samsung’s Pebble, or the S2, weighing in at 13.6 grams. The next lightest being the iPod Shuffle. In terms of battery life, Samsung’s S2 wins again, with a long battery life of 13 hours, however, the iPod Shuffle isn’t too far behind again, coming in with 12 hours of battery life. iriver’s MPlayer only offers a 9 hour battery life, and the Stone comes in the middle with 10 hours, of course these times are all under optimal use.

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