Comparison of portable media players
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The following comparison of portable media player
s compares general and technical information for notable digital playback devices.
Portable media player
A portable media player or digital audio player, is a consumer electronics device that is capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, video, documents, etc. the data is typically stored on a hard drive, microdrive, or flash memory. In contrast, analog portable audio...
s compares general and technical information for notable digital playback devices.
General
| Name | Manufacturer | Release | Size | Type | Capacity (GB) | Storage | External | Dimensions (mm × mm) | Depth (mm) | Weight (g) | Firmware |
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| Archos 105 | Archos Archos Archos is a French consumer electronics company that was established in 1988 by Henri Crohas. Archos manufactures portable media players and portable data storage devices. The name is an anagram of Crohas' last name, and it is also Greek for 'master'... |
2007-08-31 | DAP | 2 | Flash Flash memory Flash memory is a non-volatile computer storage chip that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. It was developed from EEPROM and must be erased in fairly large blocks before these can be rewritten with new data... |
SDHC | 85 × 45 | 7 | 50 millimetres (1.8 oz) | 1.6.07 | |
| Archos 405 | Archos | 2007-09-01 | Mini | PMP Portable media player A portable media player or digital audio player, is a consumer electronics device that is capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, video, documents, etc. the data is typically stored on a hard drive, microdrive, or flash memory. In contrast, analog portable audio... |
2 | Flash | SDHC | 99.6 × 78 | 13.2 | 119.07 | 1.8.03 |
| Archos 405 | Archos | 2008-02-07 | Mini | PMP Portable media player A portable media player or digital audio player, is a consumer electronics device that is capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, video, documents, etc. the data is typically stored on a hard drive, microdrive, or flash memory. In contrast, analog portable audio... |
30 | HDD Hard disk A hard disk drive is a non-volatile, random access digital magnetic data storage device. It features rotating rigid platters on a motor-driven spindle within a protective enclosure. Data is magnetically read from and written to the platter by read/write heads that float on a film of air above the... |
100 × 78 | 15 | 191 | 1.8.03 | |
| Archos 5 | Archos | 2008-08-19 | Mid | PMP | 120/500 | HDD | 8–32 GB and Micro SD Slot (SDHC compatible) | 127 × 78.8 | 19.4 | 300 | 1.6.53 |
| Archos 605 WiFi/GPS | Archos | 2007-09-01 | Mid | PMP | 4 | Flash | SDHC | 4.8 × | 0.6 inches (15.2 mm) | 5.29 ounces (150 g) | 1.8.03 |
| Archos 605 WiFi/GPS | Archos | 2007-09-01 | Mid | PMP | 30/80/160 | HDD | 4.8 × | 0.6 inches (15.2 mm) | 6.7 ounces (189.9 g) | 1.8.03 | |
| Archos 705 WiFi | Archos | 2007-11-27 | Mega | PMP | 80/160 | HDD | 182 × 128 | 19.69 | 630 | 1.8.03 | |
| Cowon A3 | Cowon Cowon Cowon Systems, Inc. is a South Korean electronics company. Established in 1995, the company's initial focus was software development. In 2000, with the introduction of the CW100, Cowon expanded their business to the portable digital audio player industry.... |
2007-11-14 | Mid | PMP | 30/60/80 | HDD | 133.4 × 78.5 | 22 | 280 | 1.24 | |
| Cowon D2 | Cowon | 2006-12-05 | Micro | PMP | 2/4/8/16 | Flash | SDHC | 78.0 × 55.4 | 16.6 | 91.0 | 2.57 |
| Cowon Q5W | Cowon | 2007-11-30 | Mid | PMP | 40/60/80 | HDD | 138.8 × 88.5 | 20 | 380 | 1.5 | |
| Cowon O2PMP | Cowon | Mid | PMP | 8/16/32 | Flash | 4.7 × | 0.7 inches (17.8 mm) | 7.23 ounces (205 g) | |||
| Gigabeat T-Series | Toshiba Toshiba is a multinational electronics and electrical equipment corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and... |
2007-09-25 | Micro | PMP | 4 | Flash | 2.13 × 3.38 | 0.58 inches (14.7 mm) | 58.11 | No release | |
| GP2X F-200 GP2X The GP2X is an open-source, Linux-based handheld video game console and portable media player developed by South Korean company GamePark Holdings. It was released on November 10, 2005, in South Korea only.... |
GamePark Holdings GamePark Holdings GPH, formerly known as GamePark Holdings, is a South Korean company responsible for creating the GP2X that was founded by former employees of the game maker GamePark in 2005.-History:... |
2007-10-28 | Mid | PMP, HGC Handheld game console A handheld game console is a lightweight, portable electronic device with a built-in screen, game controls and speakers. Handheld game consoles are run on machines of small size allowing people to carry them and play them at any time or place... |
64 | SDHC | 5.65 × | 1.34 inches (34 mm) | 5.68 ounces (161 g) | 4.0.0 | |
| iPod classic IPod classic The iPod Classic is a portable media player marketed by Apple Inc... 6G |
Apple | 2007-09-05 | DAP | 160 | HDD | 4.1 × | 0.41 inches (10.4 mm) | 4.9 ounces (138.9 g) | |||
| iPod nano IPod nano iPod Nano is a digital media player designed and marketed by Apple Inc.. The first generation of iPod Nano was introduced on September 7, 2005 as a replacement for iPod Mini. It uses flash memory for storage. iPod Nano has gone through six models, or generations, since its introduction... 6G |
Apple | DAP | 8/16 | Flash | 1.48 × | 0.35 inches (8.9 mm) | 0.74 ounces (21 g) | ||||
| iPod touch IPod touch The iPod Touch is a portable media player, personal digital assistant, handheld game console, and Wi-Fi mobile device designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPod Touch adds the multi-touch graphical user interface to the iPod line... 4G |
Apple | Mini | PMP | 8/32/64 | Flash | 4.4 × | 0.28 inches (7.1 mm) | 3.56 ounces (100.9 g) | 5.0 IOS iOS is an operating system for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV.IOS may also refer to:-Companies and organisations:* Illinois Ornithological Society, American state-based bird club... |
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| iriver clix 2G | ReignCom ReignCom ReignCom is an electronics and entertainment company. Headquartered and based in South Korea, ReignCom is the parent company of mp3 player manufacturer iriver, as well as Yurion and Funcake Entertainment Services. Seven former Samsung executives created the company in 1999 and made its IPO on the... |
2007-04-24 | Micro | PMP | 2/4/8 | Flash | 3.16 × | 0.32 – | 1.9 ounces (53.9 g) | 1.07 | |
| PSP Slim & Lite | Sony Sony , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues.... |
2007-08-30 | Mid | PMP, HGC | 64 | Memory Stick Memory Stick Memory Stick is a removable flash memory card format, launched by Sony in October 1998, and is also used in general to describe the whole family of Memory Sticks... |
6.7 × | 0.71 inches (18 mm) | 6.67 ounces (189.1 g) | 6.10 | |
| Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0 & 5.0 | Samsung Samsung The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea... |
2011-10-16 | Mid | PMP | 8/16 | Flash | microSDHC | 123.7 x 64.2 (4.0), 141.3 x 78.2 (5.0) | 9.9 (4.0), 11.9 (5.0) | 121 (4.0), 182 (5.0) | 2.3.5 |
| Samsung T10 Samsung T10 The Samsung T10 is a flash memory based Yepp portable media player produced and developed by Samsung Electronics. As the newest player of the T series, the T10 abandons using the controls of the T9, but adapts the K3's.... |
Samsung Samsung The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea... |
2007-09 | DAP | 2/4/8 | Flash | 96 × 41.4 | 7.9 | 43 | 3.06 | ||
| Samsung P2 Samsung P2 The Samsung YP-P2 is a flash memory based Yepp portable media player produced and developed by Samsung Electronics.-Features:The P2 comes in four colors and comes in 2, 4, 8, and 16 GB variants; it sports a touchscreen, Bluetooth 2.0 as well as DNSe 2.0, an FM radio, an eBook reader, a Datacasts... |
Samsung | 2007-09 | DAP | 4/8 | Flash | 100 × 52 | 9.9 | 83 | 5.10 | ||
| Sansa Fuze | SanDisk SanDisk SanDisk Corporation is an American multinational corporation that designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a range of form factors using the flash memory, controller and firmware technologies. It was founded in 1988 by Dr. Eli Harari and Sanjay Mehrotra, non-volatile memory... |
2008-03-17 | DAP | 2/4/8 | Flash | microSDHC | 78.7 × 48.3 | 7.6 | 59.5 | 01.02.28 & 02.03.33 | |
| Sansa View | SanDisk | 2007-10-26 | PMP | 8/16/32 | Flash | microSDHC | 4.29 × | 0.41 inches (10.4 mm) | 2.9 ounces (82.2 g) | 01.03.02a | |
| Walkman NWZ-A820 series | Sony | 2008-03-28 | DAP | 4/8/16 | Flash | 3.5 × | 0.4 inches (10.2 mm) | 1.9 ounces (53.9 g) | 1.02 | ||
| ZEN ZEN (portable media player) The ZEN is a portable media player designed and manufactured by Creative Technology. The flash memory-based player is the de facto successor of the ZEN Vision:M and was announced on August 29, 2007, to be available in capacities of 2, 4, 8, and 16 GB, as of September 14... |
Creative Creative Technology Creative Technology Ltd. is a Singapore-based global company headquartered in Jurong East, Singapore. The principal activities of the company and its subsidiaries consist of the design, manufacture and distribution of digitized sound and video boards, computers and related multimedia, and personal... |
2007-09-14 | Micro | PMP | 2/4/8/16/32 | Flash | SDHC | 3.26 × | 0.44 inches (11.2 mm) | 2.29 ounces (64.9 g) | 1.21.01 |
| ZEN X-Fi | Creative | 2008-07-10 | Micro | PMP | 8/16/32 | Flash | SD | 3.27 × | 0.5 inches (12.7 mm) | 2.43 ounces (68.9 g) | 1.03.01 |
| ZEN Vision W ZEN Vision W The ZEN Vision W is a portable media player, developed by Creative Technology, and was released in September 2006.-Specifications:The ZEN Vision W is a portable media player, developed by Creative Technology, and was released in September 2006.... |
Creative | 2006-08-30 | Mid | PMP | 30/60 | HDD | CF CompactFlash CompactFlash is a mass storage device format used in portable electronic devices. Most CompactFlash devices contain flash memory in a standardized enclosure. The format was first specified and produced by SanDisk in 1994... |
5.27 × | 0.86 inches (21.8 mm) | 9.73 ounces (275.8 g) | 1.10.01 |
| Zune 30 Zune 30 This article refers only to the Zune 30 model. For the main Zune article, click here.The Zune 30 was the first portable media player developed by Microsoft. It was released on November 14, 2006. It was simply named the Zune... |
Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
2006-11-14 | Mid | PMP | 30 | HDD | 4.4 × | 0.58 inches (14.7 mm) | 5.6 ounces (158.8 g) | 3.3 | |
| Zune 4/8 | Microsoft | 2007-11-13 | Micro | PMP | 4/8 | Flash | 3.6 × | 0.33 inches (8.4 mm) | 1.66 ounces (47.1 g) | 3.3 | |
| Zune 16 | Microsoft | 2008-09-16 | Micro | PMP | 16 | Flash | 3.6 × | 0.33 inches (8.4 mm) | 1.66 ounces (47.1 g) | 3.3 | |
| Zune 80 | Microsoft | 2007-11-13 | Mid | PMP | 80 | HDD | 4.26 × | 0.51 inches (13 mm) | 4.52 ounces (128.1 g) | 3.3 | |
| Zune 120 | Microsoft | 2008-09-16 | Mid | PMP | 120 | HDD | 4.26 × | 0.51 inches (13 mm) | 4.52 ounces (128.1 g) | 3.3 | |
| Zune HD Zune HD The Zune HD is a portable media player in the Zune product family released on September 15, 2009 by Microsoft. It is a direct competitor with the Apple iPod and iPhone series of mobile devices. It was initially released in 16 and 32 GB capacities. A 64 GB version was released on April 9, 2010... |
Microsoft | 2009-09-15 | Mini | PMP | 16/32/64 | Flash | 4.08 × | 0.35 inches (8.9 mm) | 2.6 ounces (73.7 g) | 4.5 | |
| Zvue 260 | Zvue | 2007-07-17 | DAP | None | HDD | SDHC | 4.16 × | 0.5 inches (12.7 mm) | 4.2 ounces (119.1 g) | 2.80 I_071012 |
Technical specifications
| Name | Navigation | Audio out | Speaker | Screen size (in) | Screen type | Resolution (px Pixel In digital imaging, a pixel, or pel, is a single point in a raster image, or the smallest addressable screen element in a display device; it is the smallest unit of picture that can be represented or controlled.... ) |
Frame rate Frame rate Frame rate is the frequency at which an imaging device produces unique consecutive images called frames. The term applies equally well to computer graphics, video cameras, film cameras, and motion capture systems... (Hz) |
Color depth Color depth In computer graphics, color depth or bit depth is the number of bits used to represent the color of a single pixel in a bitmapped image or video frame buffer. This concept is also known as bits per pixel , particularly when specified along with the number of bits used... (bpp) |
Video out | Video battery life (hr) | Audio battery life (hr) |
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| Archos 105 | D-pad D-pad A D-pad is a flat, usually thumb-operated directional control with one button on each point, found on nearly all modern video game console gamepads, game controllers, on the remote control units of some television and DVD players, and smart phones... , 7 buttons |
Headphone jack Jack (connector) In electronics and electrical assemblies, the term jack commonly refers to a surface-mounted connector, often, but not always, with the female electrical contact or socket, and is the "more fixed" connector of a connector pair... |
1.8 | OLED Organic light-emitting diode An OLED is a light-emitting diode in which the emissive electroluminescent layer is a film of organic compounds which emit light in response to an electric current. This layer of organic semiconductor material is situated between two electrodes... |
160 × 128 | 18 | 18 | ||||
| Archos 405 | D-pad D-pad A D-pad is a flat, usually thumb-operated directional control with one button on each point, found on nearly all modern video game console gamepads, game controllers, on the remote control units of some television and DVD players, and smart phones... , 6 two-way buttons |
Headphone jack Jack (connector) In electronics and electrical assemblies, the term jack commonly refers to a surface-mounted connector, often, but not always, with the female electrical contact or socket, and is the "more fixed" connector of a connector pair... , dock connector Dock Connector A dock connector is a connector used to attach a mobile electronic device simultaneously to multiple external resources. The dock connector will typically carry a variety of signals and power, through a single connector, to simplify the process of docking the mobile device... |
3.5 | TFT LCD | 320 × 240 | 5 | 16 | ||||
| Archos 5 | Touchscreen Touchscreen A touchscreen is an electronic visual display that can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area. The term generally refers to touching the display of the device with a finger or hand. Touchscreens can also sense other passive objects, such as a stylus... |
Headphone jack | 4.8 | TFT LCD | 800 × 480 | 7 | 22 | ||||
| Archos 605 WiFi/GPS | D-pad/touchscreen Touchscreen A touchscreen is an electronic visual display that can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area. The term generally refers to touching the display of the device with a finger or hand. Touchscreens can also sense other passive objects, such as a stylus... , 6 two-way buttons |
Headphone jack | 4.3 | TFT LCD | 800 × 480 | 5.5 | 15 | ||||
| Archos 705 WiFi | Touchscreen | Headphone jack | 7 | TFT LCD | 800 × 480 | 18 | 5.5 | 15 | |||
| Cowon A3 | D-pad, 4 buttons | Headphone jack | 4 | TFT LCD | 800 × 480 | 18 | |||||
| Cowon D2 | Touchscreen, 3 buttons | Headphone jack | 2.5 | TFT LCD | 320 × 240 | ||||||
| Cowon Q5W | Touchscreen | Headphone jack | 5 | TFT LCD | 800 × 480 | 7 | 13 | ||||
| Gigabeat T-Series | D-pad, 4 buttons | Headphone jack | 2.4 | TFT LCD | 320 × 240 | 18 | 5 | 16 | |||
| GP2X F-200 | 8-way d-pad/touchscreen, 9 buttons | Headphone jack | 3.5 | TFT LCD | 320 × 240 | 16 | 3.5 | 6 | |||
| iPod classic | Click wheel, 1 center, 4 embedded buttons | Headphone jack, dock connector | Clicker only | 2.5 | TFT LCD | 320 × 240 | 16 | 6 | 36 | ||
| iPod nano 5G | Click wheel, 1 center, 4 embedded buttons | Headphone jack, dock connector | 2.25 | TFT LCD | 320 × 240 | 16 | 4 | 24 | |||
| iPod nano 6G | Multi-touch screen | Headphone jack, dock connector | 1.54 | TFT LCD | 240 × 240 | No video support | 24 | ||||
| iPod touch | Touchscreen, 3 buttons | Headphone jack, dock connector | (ex. 1st gen.) | 3.5 | TFT LCD | 480 × 320 (4th gen. 960 × 640) | 6 | 40 (4th gen), 30 (3rd gen), 36 (2nd gen), 24 (1st gen) | |||
| iriver clix 2G | D-pad, 4 embedded buttons | Headphone jack | 2.2 | AMOLED | 320 × 240 | 18 | 5 | 25 | |||
| PSP Slim/Lite | Analog stick/d-pad, 15 buttons | Headphone jack, dock connector | 4.3 | TFT LCD | 480 × 272 | 4 | 10 | ||||
| Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0 & 5.0 | Touchscreen, 3 buttons | Headphone jack | 4.0/5.0 | TFT LCD | 800 × 480 | 5 (4.0), 8 (5.0) | 36 (4.0), 60 (5.0) | ||||
| Samsung T10 | D-pad, 5 buttons | Headphone jack | 2 | TFT LCD | 320 × 240 | 18 | 4 | 30 | |||
| Samsung P2 | Touchscreen, 4 buttons | Headphone jack | 3 | TFT LCD | 480 × 272 | 18 | 5 | 35 | |||
| Sansa Fuze | Scroll ring Scroll wheel A scroll wheel is a hard plastic or rubbery disc on a computer mouse that is perpendicular to the mouse surface. It is normally located between the left and right mouse buttons.- Functionality :... , 6 buttons |
Headphone jack, dock connector | 1.9 | TFT LCD | 224 × 176 | 20 | 16 | 5 | 24 | ||
| Sansa View | Scroll wheel Scroll wheel A scroll wheel is a hard plastic or rubbery disc on a computer mouse that is perpendicular to the mouse surface. It is normally located between the left and right mouse buttons.- Functionality :... , 3 buttons |
Headphone jack, dock connector | 2.4 | TFT LCD | 320 × 240 | 16 | 7 | 35 | |||
| Walkman NWZ-A810 series | D-pad, 7 buttons | Headphone jack | 2 | TFT LCD | 320 × 240 | 16 | 33 | ||||
| ZEN | D-pad, 9 buttons | Headphone jack | 2.5 | TFT LCD | 320 × 240 | 5 | 30 | ||||
| ZEN Vision W | D-pad, 12 buttons | Headphone jack, dock connector | 4.3 | TFT LCD | 480 × 272 | 18 | 4.5 | 13 | |||
| Zune 4/8/16 | Zune pad Zune Pad The Zune Pad, which is a squircle, is the primary control mechanism for Zune 4, 8, 16, 80 and 120. The pad lets users scroll through a long list of songs with a few flicks of the finger, then press the button to select tracks or change the volume.... , 2 buttons |
Headphone jack, dock connector | 1.8 | TFT LCD | 320 × 240 | 16 | 4 | 23 (Wi-Fi)/24 | |||
| Zune 80/120 | Zune pad, 2 buttons | Headphone jack, dock connector | 3.2 | TFT LCD | 320 × 240 | 16 | 4 | 29 (Wi-Fi)/30 | |||
| Zune HD | Touchscreen, 3 buttons | Headphone jack, dock connector | 3.3 | OLED | 480 × 272 | Unknown | 33 (Wi-Fi off) | ||||
| ZVUE 260 | D-pad, 9 buttons | Headphone jack | 2.5 | AM Active-matrix liquid crystal display An active matrix liquid crystal display is a type of flat panel display, currently the overwhelming choice of notebook computer manufacturers, due to low weight, very good image quality, wide color gamut and response time... TFT LCD Active-matrix liquid crystal display An active matrix liquid crystal display is a type of flat panel display, currently the overwhelming choice of notebook computer manufacturers, due to low weight, very good image quality, wide color gamut and response time... |
234 × 160 | 6 |
Syncing and transfer
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| USB Universal Serial Bus USB is an industry standard developed in the mid-1990s that defines the cables, connectors and protocols used in a bus for connection, communication and power supply between computers and electronic devices.... |
Wi-Fi Wi-Fi Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20... |
Bluetooth Bluetooth Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security... |
Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... |
Macintosh Mac OS Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface... |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
MSC USB mass storage device class The USB mass storage device class, otherwise known as USB MSC or UMS, is a protocol that allows a Universal Serial Bus device to become accessible to a host computing device, to enable file transfers between the two... |
MTP Media Transfer Protocol The Media Transfer Protocol is a devised set of custom extensions to the Picture Transfer Protocol . Whereas PTP was designed for downloading photographs from digital cameras, Media Transfer Protocol supports the transfer of music files on digital audio players and media files on portable media... |
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| Mini-B port | 2.0 | Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... |
Vista Windows Vista Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs... |
XP Windows XP Windows XP is an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops and media centers. First released to computer manufacturers on August 24, 2001, it is the second most popular version of Windows, based on installed user base... |
2000 Windows 2000 Windows 2000 is a line of operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, business desktops, laptops, and servers. Windows 2000 was released to manufacturing on 15 December 1999 and launched to retail on 17 February 2000. It is the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and is the... |
9x Windows 9x Windows 9x is a generic term referring to a series of Microsoft Windows computer operating systems produced since 1995, which were based on the original and later modified Windows 95 kernel... |
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| Archos 5 | Me Windows Me Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows Me , is a graphical operating system released on September 14, 2000 by Microsoft, and was the last operating system released in the Windows 9x series. Support for Windows Me ended on July 11, 2006.... |
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| Cowon A3 | Me Windows Me Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows Me , is a graphical operating system released on September 14, 2000 by Microsoft, and was the last operating system released in the Windows 9x series. Support for Windows Me ended on July 11, 2006.... |
jetAudio JetAudio jetAudio is a multimedia player software that offers a playback option and multimedia file editor and burning capabilities. There are two different versions: Basic and Plus VX. The Plus VX version has additional bonus packs and unlocked video/audio conversion... |
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| Cowon Q5W | Me Windows Me Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows Me , is a graphical operating system released on September 14, 2000 by Microsoft, and was the last operating system released in the Windows 9x series. Support for Windows Me ended on July 11, 2006.... |
jetAudio JetAudio jetAudio is a multimedia player software that offers a playback option and multimedia file editor and burning capabilities. There are two different versions: Basic and Plus VX. The Plus VX version has additional bonus packs and unlocked video/audio conversion... |
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| iPod classic | No | iTunes ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.... |
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| iPod nano 4G | No | iTunes | |||||||||||
| iPod touch 1G | iTunes | ||||||||||||
| iPod touch 2G - 4G | iTunes | ||||||||||||
| iriver clix 2G | iriver plus Rhapsody Rhapsody (online music service) Rhapsody is an online music store subscription service, launched in December 2001, and available in the United States only. On April 6, 2010, Rhapsody officially declared its independence from RealNetworks. Downloaded files come with restrictions on their use, enforced by Helix, Rhapsody's version... |
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| PSP Slim & Lite | PSP Go PSP Go The PSP Go is a version of the PlayStation Portable handheld game console manufactured by Sony. It was released on October 1, 2009 in American and European territories, and on November 1 in Japan. It was revealed prior to E3 2009 through Sony's Qore VOD service... only |
Media Go Media Go Media Go is a video and audio player developed by Sony Creative Software, announced at E3 2009 for Microsoft Windows. Media Go manages content on Sony family products such as Sony Ericsson cellular telephones and the PlayStation Portable; it can also playback multimedia content, serving a function... |
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| Samsung T10 | No | EmoDio | |||||||||||
| Samsung P2 | No | EmoDio | |||||||||||
| Sansa Fuze | MSC | ||||||||||||
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| ZEN | No | Creative MediaSource | |||||||||||
| ZEN Vision W | No | Creative MediaSource | |||||||||||
| Zune | Zune Software Zune Software The Zune software functions as management software for Windows Phone 7, Zune devices, and Microsoft Kin, a full media player application with a library, an interface to the Zune Marketplace, and as a media streaming server. Zune Software is used to sync with all devices with Zune functionality.... |
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Wifi Connectivity
| Product | Manufacturer | Web browser | Wireless syncing | Ad hoc | On-demand | Web radio/TV |
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| Archos 5, 7 | Archos Archos Archos is a French consumer electronics company that was established in 1988 by Henri Crohas. Archos manufactures portable media players and portable data storage devices. The name is an anagram of Crohas' last name, and it is also Greek for 'master'... |
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| Archos 604 WiFi, 704 WiFi Archos Generation 4 A series of Archos portable media players released from 2006 through 2007. The Generation 4 series is an upgrade to the previous AV and Gmini series, primarily the AV500s. There are 8 models in all... |
Archos | file browsing | ||||
| Archos 605 WiFi, 705 WiFi Archos Generation 5 Archos Generation 5 is a series of portable media players introduced in 2007.-705 WiFi:The Archos 705 WiFi was released on November 16, 2007 in capacities of 80GB and 160GB, with the same overall design of the last generation and an updated operating system and hardware compatibility... |
Archos | file browsing | Content Portals | |||
| Archos PMA400 Archos PMA400 The Archos PMA400 is a personal digital assistant from Archos, with a hard disk drive and audio and video playback and recording capabilities, so it also functions as a portable media player... |
Archos | via FTP | ||||
| Cowon Q5W | Cowon Cowon Cowon Systems, Inc. is a South Korean electronics company. Established in 1995, the company's initial focus was software development. In 2000, with the introduction of the CW100, Cowon expanded their business to the portable digital audio player industry.... |
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| Ibiza Rhapsody | Haier Haier Haier Group is a multinational consumer electronics and home appliances company headquartered in Qingdao, Shandong, People's Republic of China. Its products include air conditioners, mobile phones, computers, microwave ovens, washing machines, refrigerators, and televisions... |
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| iPod Touch IPod Touch The iPod Touch is a portable media player, personal digital assistant, handheld game console, and Wi-Fi mobile device designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPod Touch adds the multi-touch graphical user interface to the iPod line... |
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| Samsung Galaxy Player | Samsung Samsung The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea... |
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| Sansa Connect | SanDisk SanDisk SanDisk Corporation is an American multinational corporation that designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a range of form factors using the flash memory, controller and firmware technologies. It was founded in 1988 by Dr. Eli Harari and Sanjay Mehrotra, non-volatile memory... |
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| Sony PSP | Sony Sony , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues.... |
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| Sony Walkman X Series Walkman X Series The Walkman X series is a portable music player designed by Sony Inc. It is the flagship model in the Walkman digital player family as of 2009. The model first debuted in Japan in April 2009, and then became available in North America, Europe, China and other places. The X series is available in 16... |
Sony Sony , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues.... |
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| ZEN X-Fi | Creative Creative Technology Creative Technology Ltd. is a Singapore-based global company headquartered in Jurong East, Singapore. The principal activities of the company and its subsidiaries consist of the design, manufacture and distribution of digitized sound and video boards, computers and related multimedia, and personal... |
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| Zune 4, 8 Zune 4, 8 The Zune 4, Zune 8, and Zune 16 are second-generation models of the Zune lineup, they were first announced on October 2, 2007 and released on November 13, 2007 in the United States and June 13, 2008 in Canada... |
Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
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| Zune 30 Zune 30 This article refers only to the Zune 30 model. For the main Zune article, click here.The Zune 30 was the first portable media player developed by Microsoft. It was released on November 14, 2006. It was simply named the Zune... |
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| Zune HD Zune HD The Zune HD is a portable media player in the Zune product family released on September 15, 2009 by Microsoft. It is a direct competitor with the Apple iPod and iPhone series of mobile devices. It was initially released in 16 and 32 GB capacities. A 64 GB version was released on April 9, 2010... |
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Audio formats
| Name | MP3 MP3 MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression... |
FairPlay FairPlay FairPlay is a digital rights management technology created by Apple Inc., based on technology created by the company Veridisc. FairPlay is built into the QuickTime multimedia software and used by the iPhone, iPod, iPad, Apple TV, iTunes, and iTunes Store and the App Store. Formerly, all songs in... |
ALAC Apple Lossless Apple Lossless Apple Lossless Apple Lossless (also known as ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec), or ALE (Apple Lossless Encoder) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music. After initially being proprietary for many years, in late 2011 Apple open sourced... |
AAC Advanced Audio Coding Advanced Audio Coding is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates.... |
WMA-DRM | WMA Lossless Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless is a lossless audio codec by Microsoft, released in early 2003.It compresses an audio CD to a range of 206 to 411MB, at bit rates of 470 to 940 kbit/s. The result is a bit-for-bit duplicate of the original audio file; in other words, the audio quality on the CD will... |
WMA Windows Media Audio Windows Media Audio is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft. The name can be used to refer to its audio file format or its audio codecs. It is a proprietary technology that forms part of the Windows Media framework. WMA consists of four distinct codecs... |
WAV WAV Waveform Audio File Format , is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs... |
Audible Audible.com Audible.com is an Internet provider of spoken audio entertainment, information, and educational programming.Audible sells digital audiobooks, radio and TV programs, and audio versions of magazines and newspapers.... |
Ogg Vorbis Vorbis Vorbis is a free software / open source project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation . The project produces an audio format specification and software implementation for lossy audio compression... |
FLAC FLAC FLAC is a codec which allows digital audio to be losslessly compressed such that file size is reduced without any information being lost... |
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| Archos 405 | No | AC3 Dolby Digital Dolby Digital is the name for audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories. It was originally called Dolby Stereo Digital until 1994. Except for Dolby TrueHD, the audio compression is lossy. The first use of Dolby Digital was to provide digital sound in cinemas from 35mm film prints... |
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| Archos 5 | No | AC3 Dolby Digital Dolby Digital is the name for audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories. It was originally called Dolby Stereo Digital until 1994. Except for Dolby TrueHD, the audio compression is lossy. The first use of Dolby Digital was to provide digital sound in cinemas from 35mm film prints... |
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| Archos 605 WiFi / GPS | No | AC3 Dolby Digital Dolby Digital is the name for audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories. It was originally called Dolby Stereo Digital until 1994. Except for Dolby TrueHD, the audio compression is lossy. The first use of Dolby Digital was to provide digital sound in cinemas from 35mm film prints... |
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| Archos 705 WiFi | No | AC3 Dolby Digital Dolby Digital is the name for audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories. It was originally called Dolby Stereo Digital until 1994. Except for Dolby TrueHD, the audio compression is lossy. The first use of Dolby Digital was to provide digital sound in cinemas from 35mm film prints... |
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| GP2X F-200 | No | No | APE, MP2 MPEG-1 Audio Layer II MPEG-1 Audio Layer II or MPEG-2 Audio Layer II is a lossy audio compression format defined by ISO/IEC 11172-3 alongside MPEG-1 Audio Layer I and MPEG-1 Audio Layer III... , MPC, TTA, WV |
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| MP3 MP3 MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression... |
AAC-DRM FairPlay FairPlay is a digital rights management technology created by Apple Inc., based on technology created by the company Veridisc. FairPlay is built into the QuickTime multimedia software and used by the iPhone, iPod, iPad, Apple TV, iTunes, and iTunes Store and the App Store. Formerly, all songs in... |
ALAC Apple Lossless Apple Lossless Apple Lossless Apple Lossless (also known as ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec), or ALE (Apple Lossless Encoder) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music. After initially being proprietary for many years, in late 2011 Apple open sourced... |
AAC Advanced Audio Coding Advanced Audio Coding is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates.... |
WMA-DRM | WMA Lossless Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless is a lossless audio codec by Microsoft, released in early 2003.It compresses an audio CD to a range of 206 to 411MB, at bit rates of 470 to 940 kbit/s. The result is a bit-for-bit duplicate of the original audio file; in other words, the audio quality on the CD will... |
WMA Windows Media Audio Windows Media Audio is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft. The name can be used to refer to its audio file format or its audio codecs. It is a proprietary technology that forms part of the Windows Media framework. WMA consists of four distinct codecs... |
WAV WAV Waveform Audio File Format , is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs... |
Audible Audible.com Audible.com is an Internet provider of spoken audio entertainment, information, and educational programming.Audible sells digital audiobooks, radio and TV programs, and audio versions of magazines and newspapers.... |
Ogg Vorbis Vorbis Vorbis is a free software / open source project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation . The project produces an audio format specification and software implementation for lossy audio compression... |
FLAC FLAC FLAC is a codec which allows digital audio to be losslessly compressed such that file size is reduced without any information being lost... |
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Video formats
| Name | H.264 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 or AVC is a standard for video compression, and is currently one of the most commonly used formats for the recording, compression, and distribution of high definition video... |
ASF Advanced Systems Format Advanced Systems Format is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media... |
WMV Windows Media Video 'Windows Media Video is a video compression format for several proprietary codecs developed by Microsoft. The original video format, known as WMV, was originally designed for Internet streaming applications, as a competitor to RealVideo. The other formats, such as WMV Screen and WMV Image, cater... |
DivX DivX DivX is a brand name of products created by DivX, Inc. , including the DivX Codec which has become popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality.There are two DivX codecs; the regular MPEG-4 Part 2 DivX codec and the... / Xvid XviD Xvid is a video codec library following the MPEG-4 standard, specifically MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile . It uses ASP features such as b-frames, global and quarter pixel motion compensation, lumi masking, trellis quantization, and H.263, MPEG and custom quantization matrices.Xvid is a... |
MPEG-4 MPEG-4 Part 2 MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-4 Visual is a video compression technology developed by MPEG. It belongs to the MPEG-4 ISO/IEC standards. It is a discrete cosine transform compression standard, similar to previous standards such as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2... |
AVI Audio Video Interleave Audio Video Interleave , known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback... |
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| Archos 405 | No | No | MPEG-2 MPEG-2 MPEG-2 is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods which permit storage and transmission of movies using currently available storage media and transmission... |
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| Archos 5 | No | No | MPEG-2 MPEG-2 MPEG-2 is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods which permit storage and transmission of movies using currently available storage media and transmission... , MKV MKV MKV may stand for:* Matroska, a video and audio container format* Mittelschüler-Kartellverband* Multiple Kill Vehicle... |
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| Archos 605 WiFi / GPS | No | No | MPEG-2 MPEG-2 MPEG-2 is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods which permit storage and transmission of movies using currently available storage media and transmission... |
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| Archos 705 WiFi | No | No | MPEG-2 MPEG-2 MPEG-2 is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods which permit storage and transmission of movies using currently available storage media and transmission... |
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| Zune | DVR-MS DVR-MS DVR-MS is a proprietary video and audio file container format, developed by Microsoft used for storing TV content recorded by Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows Vista and Windows 7.... |
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Additional features
| Name | FM radio | Microphone | Line-in recording | DVR recording | Playback while charging | USB host | HDMI out |
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| Archos 5 | With FM remote | With FM remote | With dock | With DVR dock | With dock | ||
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| iPod | Nano generations 5 & 6 only | iPod Touch IPod Touch The iPod Touch is a portable media player, personal digital assistant, handheld game console, and Wi-Fi mobile device designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPod Touch adds the multi-touch graphical user interface to the iPod line... only |
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| ZEN Vision W | Power only; no data | ||||||
| Zune | , Zune HD Zune HD The Zune HD is a portable media player in the Zune product family released on September 15, 2009 by Microsoft. It is a direct competitor with the Apple iPod and iPhone series of mobile devices. It was initially released in 16 and 32 GB capacities. A 64 GB version was released on April 9, 2010... |
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