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Creative Technology announced its smallest music video player to date the MuVo Vidz, available in 512MB and 1GB measuring a mere 32 x 66 x 15.7 mm and weighs only 33g. Despite its diminutive size, this player packs a punch.

Creative MuVo Vidz is one of the trendiest player supporting music video playback and photo viewing. The player is equipped with a high-quality 65K color (1.18-inch) OLED display for music video playback as well as photo viewing, and supports up to 10 hours of continuous playing time for music tracks.

As a versatile portable music video player, the MuVo Vidz accepts a wide range of formats. It can save and play WMA/MP3 files, video in MPEG-4 format as well as displaying JPG images on its colour display.

NEC has announced a thin (11.9mm) clamshell phone called the L1 (it is 2 mm thinner than Motorola's RAZR). The main display is a 176x220 LCD, and the external one is a blue PMOLED panel. Other features include tri-band GSM/GPRS, 1.3mp camera and 32MB of memory.

NEC L1

Sony announced a new MP3 player, the Walkman 'Bean'. This flash-based player (512MB or 1 GB) features a pop-up USB jack, a single-line PMOLED display and 50 hours of play time.

The Sony Walkman Bean is available in the following colors: Tropical Ice (Blue), Cotton Candy (Pink), Licorice (Black) and Coconut (White).

Produced by the Art Lebedev Studio in Moscow the Optimus OLED keyboard is so simple, yet demonstrates such common sense, I can’t believe no one has done it before (cue many readers telling me someone has). The concept is thus: every key features an inbuilt colour OLED. That’s right, no more memorizing every button in Word/Photoshop, Half Life 2 or even foreign alphabets, the keys themselves change to illustrate what is what.

Even smarter is the fact that these buttons are customizable. Images and words can be uploaded to each button and a different action assigned to it. Want to label the button Reload or Jump instead of testing the old grey matter, no problemo. Don’t like certain keys being in certain positions, swap them round.

Adamond's ZK1 is the first Flash-based music player to ship with 2GB of storage capacity, at least according to Adamond. The ZK1 is cigarette shaped and has a 128x64 multi-line blue and yellow PMOLED panel.

Olympus announced 3 new flash based MP3 players, with OLED panels.

MR-F10: A light weight MP3 player, with a 65K color OLED display.

MR-F20: Another player with a 65K color OLED display

MR-F30: A 260K color OLED, with wide viewing angle and clear picture quality. This player includes a photo (JPEG) viewer.

From initial impressions, the ASTONE Xinc AV portable video player (PVP) seems like an ordinary miniature audio player with a colored screen. Small it may be, it still deserves attention because you are looking at one of the smallest portable video players in the market with a 1.2-inch OLED display. This player is capable of playing back video, music, radio, displaying photos and even documents saved in *.txt format. Besides various playback related functions, it also has a line-in jack and built-in microphone for recording purposes. From the looks of things, this PVP is by far the most feature packed all-in-one device we have seen to date in such a tiny form factor.

Taiwan's Luxpro unveiled two new digital music players bearing a superficial resemblance to Apple Computer's IPod Shuffle player at the Computex trade show in Taipei this week.

The Top Tangent and EZ Tangent are new versions of the company's Super Tangent, which first appeared at the Cebit show in Germany in March and caused a stir because of its similarity to the Apple player. All three Luxpro players are small, thin, and rectangular in shape and have rounded corners. The navigation controls are arranged in a circle on the front, with settings switches on the reverse. A cap covers the USB connector.

The Maxfield Movie supports MP3, WMA, OGG, JPG, AVI and MP4 media formats. The OLED screen has 260,000 colors. Features of the Maxfield movie include FM-Tuner, USB 2.0, SRS, WOW, photo viewer, alarm, timer based recording, sleep function and 15 hour battery life.

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The MPIO-One player is a flash based MP3 (max 1GB memory) player, that can also play MPEG-4 movies.

The player has a 1.04" OLED display capable of 65K colors, 96x64 pixels.