It looks like the iRiver E30 is spreading its wings, with the announcement the previously China-only player is heading to Japan.
The 1.8 inch screen, 2GB storage, FM radio, SRS WOW HD and 52 hours playback is all the same as the Chinese version, the only difference being the matte outer casing. Pricing will be around [...]

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From Korea comes these fun looking DAPs which have 27 LEDs that can be user programmed to display your own little icons and pictures or used to play rock/paper/scissors.
They’re 12mm thick and have 12 hours audio playback. What they don’t have attached as yet is the price or capacity.
See after the jump for a diagram [...]

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Here’s a player dock that demands you dust off your AC/DC and Led Zeppelin MP3s. The limited edition retro dock isn’t just for iPods, it’s got a regular input for anything else and also has a digital FM tuner.
It takes 4 AA batteries and costs a reasonable $15.
[Via Slipperybrick]
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Following Cube’s C3 USB MP3 player we reported on earlier in the week,  Teclast have got their own take on the pen-drive styled players.
The X23 has a very similar design with the black and white OLED screen, directional controls but the USB part is capped rather than retracted.
Soundwise it could do the business with its [...]

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Cube’s C3 MP3 player is an amalgamation of a DAP and a USB stick, cutting out the middle man USB cable.
The USB connection is retractable, giving it a flick-knife edge to those with a broad imagination or too much time to fiddle with it.
Made of PVC, the player boasts 30 hours playback, a 4-direction joypadesque [...]

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For 3 years the iRiver N20 has been banded around as vaporware but now its re-surfaced appearance may mean it’s actually going to get a release.
Back then it was slated as being the smallest DAP with a screen but the updated design seems to be headed in a screenless direction and a more streamlined, fashionable [...]

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Looking quite domino/Nationite OS-72HR remote control-like, the Teclast X16 is a small and simple, budget DAP.
It carries 2GB or 4GB of music and has a 1 inch 128 x 64 resolution screen for navigation and lyric display.
The X16 also has 15 hours of battery life, 7 EQ modes, a recorder (up to 76 hours) and [...]

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The 2GB/4GB tiny baby brother of all Nationite players gets put through its paces in this review.
See how it fared after the break.

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Photographed with frost is the European Owen V1 audio player, a fairly neat but potentially flimsy player that comes with 2GB of onboard memory and seven EQ modes.
The player has a 1.1 inch monochrome screen and uses the Actions 2111L audio chip for its 10 hours of playback and FM radio.
[Via imp3]
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Freshly introduced to the Asian market is yet another novelty digital audio player.
This time it’s iRiver who have set their sights on the dollars of lovers of all things cutesy.
The player has a respectable 2GB of internal memory, is pretty small and light (45.2 x 17 x 35.5mm & 16g) and comes with the choice [...]

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