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iRiver clix 2GB Portable Media Player it’s a 2.7 x 1.8 x 0.6 inch device, with an ultra-bright,2.22 inch 260,000 QVGA TFT-LCD color display which plays music, video, photos and more and supports subscription and pay-per-song music services. Has a built-in digital FM tuner and voice recorder. Also includes alarm clock, games, five-band EQ, Macromedia Flash player and requires Windows XP (Service Pack 1 or higher).

Has a very simple and attractive design. It gives you the impression that it’s nothing but screen - you press down on an edge to navigate. This $200 Portable Media Player has an easy menu and can definitely satisfy your all requirements of an PMP.

It seems like Microsoft is determined to get higher then iPod in digital music industry. The company will launch at the end of this year a WiFi-enabled (download songs directly to the player) portable audio and video player which will surely compete with Apple’s iPod, a portal media player which gained billions of dollars in a few years. Microsoft’s digital music player will have a screen ‘bigger than that of the iPod video’ and also will have wireless Internet capability that would allow users to download music without being connected to a PC planning to let people download for free any songs they’ve already bought from the iTunes Music Store.

The Microsoft company already held negotiations with record companies and television networks in order to settle on terms that would allow Microsoft to sell music and video content online through a service similar to Apple’s iTunes Music Store. They are also planning to launch an MVNO next year using all Windows Mobile-powered HTC handsets. Concerning the popularity that Apple Computer’s iPod has, I don’t think they will be able to pass over it.

The Russian paid MP3 music download site AllofMP3.com is now offering a software for downloading songs without entering to their site.
allTunes is a Windows and Smartphone interface to the AllofMP3 music library, permitting you to download high quality music easily.
The music downloads site offers about 40,000 albums. With only $0.11 you can download a four-minute song encoded at 192Kbps in the MP3 format. An entire album costs about $1-2, comparing to iTunes where for only one song you pay $0,99. Why? Because AllofMP3.com pays nothing to the music industry and to the artists, because they don’t have any signed contracts with the recording labels like iTunes has (iTunes pays about $0,75 to the recording labels).

Napster unveiled the new Napster.com, its interactive, ad-supported, free online music destination. With the launch, the service - which is currently only available to U.S residents - becomes the first legal digital music service to offer music fans free, on-demand listening to over two million major and independent-label tracks, five times each. Anyway, it’s not exactly free music, it’s just streaming. So, with Napster’s offering, users can listen to streaming music from any of Napster’s two million tracks. Probably, Napster is hoping that the offer will encourage new subscribers to join, and that the extra website traffic will generate better advertising revenue.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said that this summer Apple will launch iPod nano of 8GB and 10GB. After the delay of touchscreen iPod, which might be launched next year, Apple should come with something new and amazing like: iPod nano of 8GB and 10GB. We now have only iPod nano of 1GB, which can hold up about 240 songs, iPod nano of 2 GB, which can hold up about 500 songs and iPod nano of 4 GB which can hold up about 1000 songs. Anyway, Apple launching iPod nano of 8GB and 10GB is just a rumor, still waiting for a confirmation.