SanDisk is going to restart the production of Sansa View, a Flash based Widescreen Portable Media player.They have made the Sansa View incredibly thinner to around 8.8mm at its thinnest.

The newly designed Sansa View will be available in both 16 GB and 8 GB storage options.

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Nokia will be announcing details of their new N81 and the 8GB version of N95.

Nokia N81

Nokia N81 is a slider type 3G enabled phone working on Symbian OS.Its having a normal 3.5 mm headphone jack and its also rumored that its having N-Gage features, its keys are positioned perfectly like N-Gage for example.

Specifications of N81:

• OS: Symbian S60 3rd edition FP1
• Display: 2.4″ QVGA screen with resolution of 240×320 with 16 million colors
• Dimension : 102 x 50 x 17.9 mm
• Memory: 8GB internal flash memory or another model with less internal memory with microSD expansion slot [upto 4GB ]
• Playback: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, and M4A
• Camera: 2 Megapixel camera and a secondary CIF camera for video conferencing
• WiFi , Bluetooth with A2DP , E-mail support (Push, SMTP, IMAP4, POP3), Nokia Mobile search, and Nokia Maps ,an FM tuner and side-mounted dual stereo speakers
• Weight: 140 grams

Its having a talk time of 4 hours and standby time of around 15 days.N81 will be released during Q4 2007 and will be priced at $499.

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Details about the new MP3 players from Samsung aren’t yet known entirely but Samsung has announced that the new players will be out in September , around the time the new iPod’s are to be announced by Apple.

The Samsung YP-P2 is just an MP3 Player but one in its own class.With the 3 inch touch screen with resolution 480×272 , it can recognize gestures like finger swipes.It can play video files of DVD quality @ 30 fps with the supported WMV9 or MPEG4 video formats.Also audio formats supported includes MP3 and WMA.The player will be available in 4GB and 8 GB capacities in black and burgundy colors.

Samsung YP-P2

Specifications of Samsung YP-P2 :

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Sandisk announced their new new Sansa Clip as a reply to Creative Zen Stone and Apple iPod Shuffle.Sandisk’s Sansa Clip features an OLED display with battery level indicator and track display.Sansa Clip is available in black,red,pink and blue.

The Clip claims battery life of 15 hours and has playback capability of [tag]WMA[/tag] and [tag]MP3[/tag] formats.In Addition to the playback , it can also record audio & has [tag]FM[/tag] Radio/Recorder.The main disadvantage is that there’s no external memory card slot.

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Olympus introduced four new digital voice recorders namely WS-31M, WS-321M, WS-110 and WS-210S.They can record voice as well as play them.WS Series record voice in stereo mode also have an LCD display for easy navigation.The Audio player built-in to the WS Series supports [tag]MP3[/tag] and WMA formats.These devices can be used as [tag]USB[/tag] mass storage making them perfect for some one who is on travel and wants to take note of things.

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