Accessory kings Fiio have got a weighty body of gadgets under their belt.
Following the S9 Speaker review it’s time to take a look at other Fiio stable items.
Click below to see the write-ups.

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In the run-up to tomorrow’s celebrations of China’s 60 years of the People’s Republic, player from the region’s taking on a nationalist spin.
The Shinco SK918HD is celebrating by giving the back of its shell a nice China-loving doodle. See after the break for player details and pic.

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The latest in the trend of eco-friendly concept phones is the Japanese NTT Domoco ‘Touch Wood’.
The casing is made from real surplus wood and the project was spearheaded by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto and uses and interface inspired by Mikiya Takimoto.
Other folk to have a hand in it are the more well-known Sharp and Olympus companies [...]

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The H800 has been making some slight rumblings, apart from some specs and a few pictures of the OS it would be using, there wasn’t much info on the H800, till now, forum member nlite found these pictures of what looks  x to be the H800 prototype.
Some things we do know about this player is [...]

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The latest in the Cube i-Station series has been released.
The E9 has a 3 inch touchscreen and supports MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC, APE audio formats and AVI, RM/RMVB, FLV, WMV, 3GP, MP, DAT video formats.
The design (admittedly helped by the marketing image) looks suitably slick and also onboard is a sound recorder, FM radio, G-sensor, [...]

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Despite info being thin on the ground, we know the SA075 has an 800 x 480 touchscreen and has HDMI output.
Even the HD capabilities are vague but considering 1080p has fast become the norm over the last few weeks, it’s probable Philips will be following suit.
[Via Slipperybrick]
Discuss on the forum.

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This 9 inch iLuv odd box plays content from iPods, DVDs, SD & MMC cards and USB sticks, oddly bypassing the modern convenience of onboard storage.
The jack-of-all-trades device costs $269.99 and potentially worryingly, the press release doesn’t include resolution information for the 9″ TFT widescreen.
[Via Engadget]
Discuss on forum.

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The latest 1080P PMP to hit the China market is the Gemei HD8800.
Information is surprisingly sparse but it does support RMVB / AVI / FLV, H.264 encoded MKV and other HD video formats, has HDMI output and boasts a 50MB data stream.
[Via imp3]
Discuss on the forum.

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Back with yet another all-in-one games system/PMP, China’s Venus Digital have upped their video support to 720p.
The HD player supports RM, RMBV, AVI and FLV video format and has TV-OUT.
All major audio formats are supported including FLAC lossless.
On the games from the JXD1000 is still pretty retro, supporting GBA, NES and stand-alone 8-32 bit downloadable [...]

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In a guest article for Pocketables.net, Ben L. has written how the ZuneHD doesn’t quite live up to its “HD” buzz word.
The first gripe Ben L. has can be said of a number of ‘HD’ players, i.e. player itself can’t display HD content due to its 480×272 screen which is 14% of the lowest HD [...]

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