Thomson's mysterious Black Diamond PMP goes public

Think your black iPod nano attracted fingerprints and got scratched too easily? Keeping the same sleek black / blue glow motif showcased on Thomson's PMP2008, the mysterious new Black Diamond PMP (a.k.a. the EH308) should truly wear your touch on its enclosure. While the flashy homepage doesn't give us a completely satisfactory look at the unit itself, we do know that it'll pack 8GB of internal capacity, rock a 1.8-inch OLED screen, and feature "tactile controls." Furthermore, it'll come with a rechargeable Li-ion cell rated for 15 hours, USB 2.0 connectivity, a 3.5-millimeter headphone jack, and the ability to display photos as well as play back audio (formats unspecified) and video (WMV / MPEG4). Curiously, Thomson also boasts about its ability to "manage podcast and web audio formats," as well as confirming its compatibility with "secure downloadable music formats" such as WMA-DRM. Expect this dark device to hit store shelves any day now, and at around $300, it's just a tad cheaper than that other Black Diamond floating around out there.

[shmengie @ Nov 16th 2006 1:34PM]

looks very sexy. also good for forensics when needing to lift fingerprints...

[crescentdavid @ Nov 16th 2006 3:31PM]

Gaughhhh. What a horrible site. What a testimonial to "Isn't this flashy ...let's do it!" tripe. All it is is a reload of that goddawful, old skool, blinking & flashing .gif crap. Bling first, maybe style second and actual content and user interaction last-and lacking.

Not that I'm ranting or anything ...KL$$@$!!!##@$!$$@!#$$!!!! Hey- that looks kinda swill ...