Sony CE-P MP3 players with 260K color 1.5" OLED

What do you do after you kill the Bean? Well, for Sony China, it means that it's time to release a sleek new MP3 player complete with a full 1.5" 260K color OLED display.
The new CE-P series sports a 1.5-inch screen that not only contains an extra-purdy looking GUI, but can also cycle through your uploaded bitmaps and jpegs.

The feature set is fairly standard for the market. You'll find support for MP3s and WMAs, though, there is no mention of OGG, AAC, or other not-so-mainstream formats.

Read the full story Posted: Apr 03,2006

Atmel's new single-chip digital music player

The AT85C51SND3 includes two major features for up-to-date players: USB On-The-Go (OTG) and OLED color screen control. On-chip high-speed USB enables faster transfer rates and the USB OTG functions allow end-users to easily play their music files by connecting any standard USB key to applications such as MP3 players.

The AT85C51SND3 device can support on OLED display with up to 320x256 pixels and 260,000 colors. Animation, games and JPEG or motion JPEG can then be very easily displayed giving added value to the end user application with virtually no additional cost.

Read the full story Posted: Apr 03,2006