If you're looking for some fresh and exciting PMP action, perhaps Pasen can help you out. After the company's
unmitigated failure at ripping off the iPhone, the Chinese media player-maker has turned its attentions to the use of accelerometers with the ShakeIT. Continuing the habit of unoriginal ideas, Pasen has rebranded a Telcast player -- which sports a 2.8-inch, QVGA, 320 x 240 screen, 2GB of memory, and the ability to play all your favorite formats (AVI, FLV, MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC, JPEG, GIF and BMP). The hook here, of course, is the player's ability to shuffle through pictures, menu items, or songs by being shaken one way or another -- a feature likely to get a number of these thrown across a room. On the plus side, this player will
apparently be the first to use Microsoft's PlayFX suite, which does 3D headphone effects and volume normalizing. The company also "officially" announced two other players, the TouchMusic, a Telcast touchscreen PMP rebrand, and the A19, yet
another rebrand of a PMP / digital camera first introduced by KBS Industrial. All the players should be available, "In around a month." Check the video after the break to see the ShakeIT do its thing.
[Via
PMPToday]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Chris @ Sep 23rd 2007 6:58PM
POS
404error @ Sep 23rd 2007 7:09PM
What a horrible idea. It looks a lot like Creative's Zen, too.
Derry Quinn @ Sep 23rd 2007 8:04PM
Thats exactly what I was thinking, great mind think alike but unfortunately so do weak ones so which are we?
JohnTitor @ Sep 23rd 2007 8:35PM
Chocolate + Zen = Pasen?
Derry Quinn @ Sep 23rd 2007 8:43PM
Mmmmm.... Choclolate!
Gogesch @ Sep 23rd 2007 7:14PM
Let me think: I can press a button to scroll, and hold it down to scroll quickly....OR i could shake my mp3 player incessantly to go through a list. Well i guess it could be something of a workout?
SteveMB @ Sep 23rd 2007 7:18PM
It's a Wii!
Mindfield @ Sep 23rd 2007 7:16PM
Brilliant. Go jogging and you'll skip songs with every other step. Is "Pasen" chinese for "Rubbish?"
christian brandoni @ Sep 23rd 2007 7:23PM
You guys are missing a point.The menu shaking thing is just a gimmick,but the whole point for the g-sensor is also as pedometer.
So to answer MindField,yes you can use it while jogging and disabling the locking the g-sensor,the songs won't change but it will count your steps and the kilometers you made and estimate calories burnt.Sorry for adding some useful function to our players,we are really sorry.
David @ Sep 23rd 2007 7:23PM
Chinese people don't jog. They do Thai Chi together, with a boombox kind of thing.
Reginald @ Sep 24th 2007 12:20AM
@Christian
"Sorry for adding some useful function to our players,we are really sorry."
The accelerometer 'feature' is a solution without a problem. When is the last time you read someone complaining that a DAP didn't have a jogging counter? Generally speaking *most* of the coveted features are:
- Codec Support
- Battery Life/Battery interchangeability
- User Interface
- Overall aesthetics or style of the device
If you're just rebranding the DAPS then try not to take it so personally when someone criticizes 'features' on a device which you had no personal stake in developing. Unless you did develop it, then take it as constructive criticism
christian brandoni @ Sep 23rd 2007 7:27PM
And I would like to note to the news poster that Teclast isn't a factory so they aren't doing anything more than what we are doing: rebranding.
Shane Reustle @ Sep 23rd 2007 7:35PM
This is a neat idea, but i'd rather find the model of pmp that this has ripped off and get that.
Reader @ Sep 23rd 2007 8:04PM
Why do all chinese pmps use that same shitty UI? Especially when they could just steal a good one like the iPod's or Gigabeat's.
Ryhan @ Sep 24th 2007 12:27AM
gigabeat? dosent that just run some version of Windows?...
iPod? dosent that just run some version of OSX?...
Pasen? now THATS original :D
riggs @ Sep 24th 2007 1:03AM
anybody else thinks it looks like a meizu m6?
kadajawi @ Sep 24th 2007 6:27AM
First, it's Teclast. Not Telcast. Second, Teclast have earned themselves some recognition in the DAP world, not as much as Meizu, but apparently they seem to be pretty decent as well, using a Wolfson DAC.
But why oh why do all these Chinese players use this terrible font. It just doesn't work on screens, doesn't look right.