Telstra Selling 32GB HTC One XL (4G) From June 5 
Aussie Teen's Picture Of Cash On Facebook Leads To Home Robbery 
Motorola Defy Mini Review 
The Downside Of Living In A Digital World 
Australia, NZ And South Africa To Share Square Kilometre Array 
Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action Looks like the iriver Spinn is the hippest template for shameless plagiarism these days. Not one but two devices, a camera and a PMP, have popped up with obvious “inspiration” from iriver’s ’70s-influenced baby.
We caught a peek of iriver’s P7 PMP at CES, but now the 4.3″ screened player is up on the official site with some pretty pictures and a full list of specs.
iRiver’s Spinn is certainly beautiful on the outside, but inside its software left a little lacking. A version 2.0 software update is available now which addresses a few of our gripes.
The Wave Home is primarily a touch-screen video VoiP phone, but with a web browser and Chumbified widgets built-in. It also looks like it was designed for a German modernist millionaire’s night stand.
While everyone is trying to emulate Apple iPhone look, iRiver keeps playing their own metallic tune: Following the design of the beautiful Spinn but more conservative than their experimental products, the new iRiver mobile keeps on with the brushed metal look, featuring both a pad as controlling device and a large touchscreen, which supports handwriting recognition and multiple dictionaries.
We’ve heard plenty about the iRiver Spinn PMP since it appeared at CES 2008, but now it’s finally available for purchase in US markets. The 3.3-inch AMOLED touchscreen MP4 player with Bluetooth 2.0 support and roto-dial UI navigation will retail at $US250 for the 4 GB player and $US290 for the 8 GB player. It’s available for directly order over at iRiver.
iRiver’s beautifully designed Spinn we handled in Berlin (that giant analogue knob, mmm) now has official details on U.S. availability: $US250 for 4GB and $US280 for 8GB, with pre-orders taken now to be shipped on October 3. We’d love to see a little more storage at that price, but it’s a great-looking player with a nice 16:9 AMOLED touchscreen, FM tuner, DMB mobile TV (if you’re in Korea), a 1970s hi-fi inspired case and interface as well as support for all the expected video and audio formats. [iRiver]
iRiver has updated their potentially cancer-causing, child-warping Mickey Mouse MP3 players with something even better: demonic powers! Yes, it now has glowing LED (light-emitting demon) eyes. No specs on what horrible, disfiguring things it’ll do to you and your children, but Disney sorcery is pretty potent stuff. Oh, it also has 2GB of storage for MP3 or WMA files. You can gaze directly into its burning eyes in the super close-up below, but if it compels you to stab yourself in the brain with a fork, don’t hold us responsible.
newVideoPlayer("/gilliamiriver_gizmodo.flv", 520, 410,""); Apart from their Spinn 70s-retro analogue goodness, iRiver had two beautiful concept products in their IFA 2008 stand which had a design that looked further into the past, as far as the beginning of the 20th century. As you can see in the video, both their Clix speaker–inspired by the shape of cathode ray tubes–and their pipe music player–which you can blow to mute (insert joke here), and connect it to a speaker resembling a phonograph horn–look both intriguing and beautiful. [More IFA 2008 Coverage]
newVideoPlayer("/spinn_gizmodo.flv", 520, 410,""); I love the new analogue controller in the iRiver Spinn as much as I love its simple brushed aluminium design, the old radio-inspired user interface, and the whole packaging. While I’m still partial to direct touch interfaces–which the Spinn has as well, although it’s not multitouch–the Spinn rolling thingie feels great, giving it a heavenly 70s analogue feeling.
