Teclast TL-T29 media player is slender, stylish

Damn, those kids in Asia get all the cool gear first. Our friends in China just got a new Teclast portable video player, those lucky dogs. This time it's the TL-T29 -- this superslim player measures 2.8 x 1.6 x 0.3 inches, sports a flash drive (1, 2 or 4GB) with a 220 x 176 display and has a whopping 24 hours of audio playback time. No word on price or if you can get it anywhere outside the Zhongguancun district in Beijing, where CNET Asia found it. Maybe if these things were to cross the Pacific, then we'd have some real competition in this sector, hrm?

[Via CNET Asia]

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 6th 2006 6:58AM]

I like the PSP ripoff GUI. Its nice, and damn I wish I could have one.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 6th 2006 7:26AM]

Wont be crossing the shores to USA but it will make it to Europe! Good thing i live in the UK! Competition is tight over here with all these PVP coming out. Too bad for the USA their PVP market is mostly under-featured expensive ipods with video :p

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 6th 2006 2:22PM]

Well they have copied the background from the Sony PSP.. maybe they should create their own unique design

[mrmckeb Posted Sep 6th 2006 7:28AM]

"I like the PSP ripoff GUI. Its nice, and damn I wish I could have one."
Actually I would credit that design to Sandisk. Either way. It's unoriginal, but pretty.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 6th 2006 7:46AM]

lol, an article that's dated May 09

anyway, looks pretty cool.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 6th 2006 8:10AM]

Yeah... little problem called patents and intellectual property enforcement. America comes up with great designs and the Asian dweebs steal it. WTO? Hello?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 6th 2006 7:50AM]

Uh, chris, most of the world (notice CNET "Asia"?) uses the standard day-month-year format when writing dates. Just fyi.

[DBG Posted Sep 6th 2006 7:58AM]

Sorry, I don't want my media player to have a nipple. Good show though.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 6th 2006 8:00AM]

some pictures here

http://www.mingo-hmw.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=33628

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 6th 2006 9:22AM]

Hmm, yeah, looks extremely PSP-ish, right down to the wavy lines in the background. Anyway, it's nice, but just another flash-using PMP. I can't figure out the target audience for all of these things. I figure anyone who cares already has something that probably does exactly the same stuff, and has at least as much storage...

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 6th 2006 10:28AM]

It has a nipple?!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 6th 2006 1:48PM]

We are so far behind the times here its sad.

My wife just got back from China with 2 MP4 players (thats what they are called there) slightly larger than credit cards.

2G flash, 176x122 screen (very very nice screen) and a similiar user interface plus a couple of extra buttons to the picture above.

Bottom line? $80 each!

They don't actually play MP4s. They play xvid with MP2 audio. But for a recent trip I loaded one up with nearly 20 episodes of The Simpsons.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 13th 2006 3:40PM]

www.teclasters.com is the fansite for this player, check it out!