As the name implies, the navigation interface is a cube: spin it up or down to browse by album covers or twirl it left and right for quick alphabetical searches. If you’re not into the cube thing, 3 offers two other views. The wall option shows a scrollable grid with two columns of album covers, while the boring view is just a plain text listing. Actually, it may be called boring, but the large artist name with smaller album title has a little Microsoft ZuneHD feel. Each view still shows music controls, making it easy to play, shuffle and skip around.Overall, the free download offers a far better visual interface than the standard Music app found in Android. I’ve included the QR code above for Android handset owners, so happy listening and don’t get too mesmerized by the addictive cube!
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Cubed For Android: A Mesmerizing Music Player
May 30th, 2010Xun Chi 138 – World’s Smallest Phone
May 8th, 2010
This cute little Chinese phone is 67mm long, making it arguably the smallest phone available anywhere. But – somehow it crams in a VGA camera with video recording, a video player, photo editor, MP3 player w/EQ settings, voice recorder, 121 MB of memory, a 260,000-color touchscreen, handwriting recognition, multimedia messaging, web browser, GPRS, calendar with multiple alarms, handsfree speakerphone, vibrating alert, games, calculator and unit converter! Despite its amazingly small size, it’s still usable…SMS addicts, however, will quickly get frustrated trying to peck out long messages with the tiny onscreen keyboard, or with handwriting recognition.As well as the ability to make calls, the Xun Chi 138 has 128MB of storage, audio playback software, GPRS and some sort of camera. It’s labelled ‘1.3 MEGA PLIX’, but we’ve never actually heard of a ‘PLIX’, so we aren’t making any promises.
The Apple iPod Classic
September 30th, 2009
Apple has enhanced the battery life of the classic to 36 hours of music playback and 6 hours of video playback, another reason to fork out your
cash.
And finally, the interaction between the itunes and the ipod. The features are the same, and they both work smoothly. If you are new to itunes, I’d suggest, download the itunes format first to familiarize yourself first. There are movies and music available on the itunes online store for purchase.
Zune HD color options revealed in pre-order email
August 14th, 2009
We already knew that the Zune HD would be available in five different colors, and a just sent out pre-order email has now given us our first (very small) glimpse of the options available. In addition to the standard black and silver (or platinum, as Microsoft calls it), it seems you’ll also have your choice of blue, lime green, and a red / maroon color, each of which can also be adorned with your choice of 10 exclusive Zune Originals designs. From the looks of it, however, folks pre-ordering are limited to the two less colorful options.
Zune HD lands September 15th, up for pre-order today
August 13th, 2009
Do you want a Zune HD real bad? Well you’re in luck, because the wait is nearly over. Microsoft announced today that the heavily hyped media player will be making its way into retail channels come September 15th, and will be up for pre-order at select spots (Best Buy, Amazon, Walmart, and the Microsoft Store) today. That’s right… today. The Tegra-packing, HD Radio-playing, 720p-outputting device will come in a black, 16GB flavor for $219.99, or a beefier, “platinum” finish 32GB version clocking in at $289.99 (apparently the player will come in five additional colors, but no word on which ones, exactly). If you’re super impatient and in select markets (Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Minneapolis / St. Paul, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.) you can head into a Best Buy on August 22nd and 23rd to play with a device and drop $25 on a pre-order. Otherwise, you’ll just have to sit tight till the ZHD makes its way into the wide world… which is actually pretty soon. Check out more info about the player at our Zune HD hub, and after the break you can enjoy a recent video we shot of the device in action and the official PR.
