CMV9301 PMP doubles as 3MP / 5MP camera

We've seen the camera / PMP mishmash before, and now that we're witnessing yet another iteration, we still aren't really feelin' the concept. Nevertheless, those that are should certainly take a gander at Shenzhen Carav Electronics' CMV9301, which features a three-inch 320 x 240 resolution display, support for a 1.8-inch hard drive, three- or five-megapixel camera, 4x digital zoom, integrated flash, SD expansion slot, AV in / out, line-in port, a built-in speaker and a trifecta of games for good measure. Additionally, this thing claims to play nice with MP3, WMA, PCM, WAV, AVI, MOV, MP4 and ASF file formats, and the rechargeable Li-ion should be good for around ten hours of music / four hours of video playback. As these things always go, there's no word on how much a single one will cost, but feel free to phone 'em up if you can shake off that voice pleading with you to not order "at least 200."

[Via PMPToday]

[Sneakz Posted Nov 11th 2007 12:14PM]

960 x 240? Damn that's wide!

[Sneakz Posted Nov 11th 2007 12:17PM]

Yep, it's true. Hitachi is the OEM.
http://www.hitachi-displays.com/en/catalog/amusement_devices/2070442_18541.html

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2007 12:46PM]

That's actually 960 *dots*. Each pixel has 3 (RGB), so the display is in fact only 320x240.

[Bort Simpson Posted Nov 11th 2007 1:03PM]

test for change password

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2007 2:21PM]

you could have waited until you actually wanted so say something even remotely useful, like i now feel i have

[G1 Posted Nov 11th 2007 5:07PM]

Can't believe people ranked your comment LOW!!!

Testing my password too...

[smcquade Posted Nov 11th 2007 7:43PM]

testing my ability to write something interesting

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2007 2:14PM]

See, this concept makes pretty good sense to me. The idea of being able to carry music and video on the road along with a camera means I can potentially eliminate at least one device.

I don't know if this is exactly the device I'm looking for, but if we could get, say, a 20 GB flash-based PMP/Camera with a sufficiently iPod Touch-like interface I'd be totally there.

Ahhh... I can dream...

[G1 Posted Nov 11th 2007 5:34PM]

Me too...

There is some stuff out there but nothing with a good interface.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2007 2:59PM]

Those of you who like the archos brand might not know that the older 405 serries i believe they were called came in normal and camcorder flavor, with an intergrated camera on the back of the player. From what i could tell, its excatly like my AV500 camera only built into the case of the media player.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2007 3:10PM]

When will they start putting MP3 players in my toaster!!!

[G1 Posted Nov 11th 2007 5:32PM]

Well...
Actually...

This one is almost there...
http://nexus404.com/Blog/2007/01/13/fm-toaster/

And this one is way better...
http://sample5.com/node/16

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2007 5:37PM]

damn, I was thinking that would be the next iPhone killer and I would invent it. Oh well.

[Ryan Trevisol Posted Nov 11th 2007 9:58PM]

Cmos CCD FTl.