Teclast TL-T29 media player is slender, stylish

by Cyrus Farivar, posted Sep 6th 2006 at 6:41AM

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]

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Tags: beijing, china, pmp, teclast, tl-t29, zhongguancun

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Xophonic @ Sep 6th 2006 6:58AM

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

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ninja @ 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

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Intrepid @ 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.

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chris @ Sep 6th 2006 7:46AM

lol, an article that's dated May 09

anyway, looks pretty cool.

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james @ 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.

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Tony Rayo @ Sep 6th 2006 7:58AM

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

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Tung @ Sep 6th 2006 8:00AM

some pictures here

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

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Mike @ 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?

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Aaron @ 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...

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Anonymous Coward @ Sep 6th 2006 10:28AM

It has a nipple?!

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Deadken @ 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.

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Paul @ Sep 6th 2006 2:22PM

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

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Err0r @ Oct 13th 2006 3:40PM

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

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