29 Jun 10 GenerationMP3: Cowon J3 vs S9

Our friends over at GenerationMP3 have just released a video comparing the Cowon S9 to the J3. The differences between the two don't appear to be anything major. Among other things, the J3 improves on the S9 with a cleaner looking menu system, larger album art, and faster loading images. Response times for the touchscreen looks to be about the same on the two players.




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Cowon J3 at Amazon

21 Jun 10 $150 nook Wi-Fi announced [Updated]

E-book readers are finally hitting my target price. Being the cheapskate that I am, I had a hard time plunking down $250 or more for a Kindle. Well today, Barnes and Noble's officially announced a Wi-Fi version of their popular Android-powered nook reader for just $149. Aside from the switch from 3G wireless to Wi-Fi the reader appears to be identical to the original. It has a 6" E-ink display, as well as a 3.5" color touchscreen. It's loaded with 2GB's of memory plus a microSD slot, and supports PDF, EPUB, and MP3 files. B&N also dropped the price of the 3G model to $199. Hopefully this will put a little pressure on Amazon to release a WiFi-only model of their own.

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Update: Well that was fast. Amazon has now dropped the price of the Kindle to $189. We got ourselves a good ol' fashioned pricing war!

Kindle at Amazon

16 Jun 10 Nintendo 3DS officially unveiled

Yesterday at E3, Nintendo officially revealed the 3DS. The successor to the DS may not look too different from the current DS line, but as the name implies, it does 3D. Better yet, it does 3D without glasses. Having to wear glasses is perhaps one of the biggest turn-offs of this new 3D craze. I don't know exactly how Nintendo accomplished it, but from the demonstrations I've seen, it works pretty well. Nintendo announced a ton of games for the new system including Metal Gear Solid, Kid Icarus, and Star Fox. It's also capable of playing 3D movies. Nintendo had trailers for "How to Train Your Dragon" and others playing back perfectly in 3D. The Nintendo 3DS won't arrive on shelves till 2011, but it's already shaping up to be a killer handheld
device.

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07 Jun 10 Apple announces the iPhone 4

Well it’s finally official. After months of leaks, Steve Jobs re-introduced the world to the iPhone 4. And yes, it’s just “4″ this time since it’s still running on a 3G network. Most of the new additions are on the software side, but the iPhone itself got some significant upgrades as well First of all, it’s 24% thinner than the last iPhone, and sports a nice stainless steel casing with dedicated volume buttons. The 3.5″ display has a 960 x 640 resolution, 4 times sharper than its predecessor.. Jobs calls it a “retina display” because of its a 336 DPI resolution; that’s higher than printed text, and even beyond what the human eye is capable of distinguishing. In other words, it’s a bit of overkill on Apple’s part. The iPhone 4 uses the same “A4″ chipset as the iPad, allowing for faster processing, and a bump in battery life.

Apple also announced a bunch of new apps for the iPhone 4, including iBook with PDF support, and a Netflix app. They’ve also added iMovie, allowing you to edit movies on the go, and output them in resolutions up to 720P. That should pair nicely with the phone’s new cameras, capable of recording video in HD.

The iPhone 4 will be released later this month, and will come in black, or white. There’s two capacities to choose from, a 16GB for $199, or a 32GB model for $299 (with a 2 year contract I believe).

The keynote is still live, so Apple has yet to update their site with official specs. We’ll fill you in on all the details as they come in.

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macrumors
Gizmodo
Engadget