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Thomson offers up V888 slider PMP
Although Thomson's V888 isn't apt to make any calls, it sure slides with the best of 'em. This interestingly designed portable media player maximizes screen space by relocating the full gamut of controls beneath the display, and with all that space for buttons, we're delighted to see a control pad layout for playing any built-in games. Additionally, this unit packs a four-inch display, supports MPEG1/2/4, DivX, MP3, WAV, WMA, ASF, DAT, MOV and a host of other formats, includes an image / text viewer, and even does video out. You'll also find a removable battery, voice recording capabilities, and an SD expansion slot for loading up media. No word on pricing or availability at the moment, but click on for a few more snapshots of this unique device.[Via PMPToday]
Smart V888 doubles the fun with two huge speakers
Stereo speakers aren't terribly uncommon among modern featurephones, but this isn't exactly, uh, what most manufacturers have in mind. The V888 slider from Smart rocks (and we literally mean, "rocks") two bigass speakers on either side of the display with support for some sort of spatial audio enhancement. The buttonless front looks clean, sacrificing some usability in the process by moving those pesky send / end buttons off to the side of the bezel. Besides the speakers, the phone offers a microSD slot upon which to load the music you'll surely be enjoying and a 1.3 megapixel shooter, but not much else -- such is the price we must pay for crappy, unnecessarily loud audio emanating from our handset these days.[Via Slashphone]
