MPIO's MG300 portable media player gets official

Remember that MG300 we peeked at IFA way back in September? Yeah, that little bugger is finally getting official, and there's even a price and release date to go along with it. Just to bring you back up to speed, this one offers a 320 x 240 resolution display, up to 8GB of internal storage space, an SD expansion slot, eight equalizer presets, a built-in microphone, FM tuner, USB port and a rechargeable Li-ion to boot. As for file support, it will play nice with MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC, JPEG, BMP, GIF and AVI, and software comes bundled in to convert a myriad video formats to the latter. Hang tight kids -- this thing is slated to land next month for ¥10,980 ($97), ¥14,980 ($132) or ¥19,980 ($176), which will net you 2GB, 4GB or 8GB of capacity, respectively.

[Matthew Hilario @ Dec 21st 2007 11:55AM]

ooooh.. stretching.

[Constable Odo @ Dec 21st 2007 12:32PM]

No, I think the picture is off 90 degrees. She's probably resting against a wall with her arms wrapped around her leg.

Of course, you can imagine she's doing anything you want her to do. And I'm sure you are.

[Phi Nguyen @ Dec 21st 2007 1:59PM]

Fetal position, what?

[Matthew Hilario @ Dec 21st 2007 4:06PM]

@phi
you dont happen to live in so cal do you?

[Lindsay Lohan @ Dec 21st 2007 12:12PM]

It looks like my iPod with two scroll wheels on it.

[justin @ Dec 21st 2007 12:26PM]

C'mon Li-Lo, wipe the coke from your nose. This looks more like a Zune with two non-squircle controls. Nothing like an iPod.

[Rex @ Dec 21st 2007 12:14PM]

Any word on whether pictures can be transfered from the SD card to internal memory? Also, is this device Mass Storage complaint so it can do drag and drop from any computer?

[paragraph @ Dec 21st 2007 12:15PM]

Dosn't change the fact that it's an iPod with Boobs...

Seriously, that design just looks so cumbersome. I'd rather have a stick of buttons down the side than two d-pad style buttons.

But, i guess it is in the right price-point to compete with Zune... and it does have SD expansion (i have so many SD cards i could use that)... if they worked on the design some more you might just have a solid MP3 player there.

[Wwhat @ Dec 21st 2007 4:28PM]

Someone should start reviewing the SD slots, I notice some have rather sharp connectorpins and I wonder how good that is for the cards, why can't they make the contacts be pushed on the card as you reach the end of the slot rather than have them drag across it, when I look at the scratches it looks so brutal.

[abadtooth @ Dec 21st 2007 1:05PM]

COMMON ENGADGET!!!!

We have had enough of seeing stupid pmp's there have been way too many posted on your site!

pmp's are a dime a dozen, there nothing special, they all have the same features and only have very small differences (Size and Shapes)
Please post something original!!

[Wwhat @ Dec 21st 2007 4:29PM]

Name another one with APE and FLAC support though, good luck.

[Ivan @ Dec 21st 2007 1:17PM]

Why does everyone think any PMP with a screen looks like an iPod? Geez. Get a clue. It is simply the only way to design one. Morons.

If anything, the elongated screen is more Zune-like...which fanboys still say looks like an iPod.

[Bakkhous @ Dec 21st 2007 2:25PM]

well its nice but my New Creative Zen can do all that and its smaller, and cooler, and sexyer, but too many wannabes out there, for video mp3 player :)

[silverblackvoid @ Dec 21st 2007 2:57PM]

its not a ipod ripoff nor it is a zune ripoff, but it certainly got tities.

[Wwhat @ Dec 21st 2007 4:24PM]

A portable media player eh, what WILL they come up with next!

(at least this one does FLAC and APE, that's pretty unique)