HiFi Blog: digital audio goodness

Pictures: mobiBLU US2: the design is obviously RAZR-influenced, but notice the horrible placement of the “Play/Pause” button on the top. [via]

Review: mobiBLU DHH-200: nice form factor and a plethora of features but the non-intuitive and slow UI could use a little improvement. More pictures of the DHH-200.

mobiBLU to introduce a 2GB of its popular cube-shaped DAH-1500: it’ll go for $160 (512MB: $100, 1GB: $130) and you’ll be able to get it from a place other than Walmart this time. You may want to read our presentation of the DAH-1500. [via]

A single charge is supposed to keep the DAH-1900 running for 150 hours. We’ll find out what truth stands behind this number as the first reviews start showing up. You’re supposed to charge the lithium-ion battery via USB.

You’ll be able to load your tunes and M3U playlists quickly via the USB 2.0 link and access [...]

The latest offering from mobiBLU seems noteworthy:

HDD-based, 8 gigs of storage
1.8-inch, 262K color display
support for MPEG4 videos (besides, duh, MP3)

Here are some more pictures [via] for your viewing pleasure. South Koreans should have it by the end of this month for 200K KRW (or ~$192)- hopefully we’ll see this released in the US too, just [...]

The world’s smallest digital audio player (measures 24×24×24mm, weighs 18grams) gets reviewed by PC Magazine. Apart from a few weak points (mainly the lack of Shuffle-like sonic accuracy, and a kinda weak battery) they give it the thumbs up (rating: 4/5):

[...] it’s more than adequate for its intended market, and all the extra features (not [...]