As is generally the case on Thursdays, we’re going neck deep into the depths of the Apple App Store to see what interesting things we can bring your way. Today’s review target is 5-0 Radio, a scanner application that lets you follow all the police drama in your hometown, or anywhere else, for that matter. [...]

Fraunhofer has announced a few interesting improvements for devices that run the Android OS. These new improvements made by Fraunhofer are related to audio and video features. For example, the MPEG-4 HE-AAC v2 codec is now supported on the Android platform, which means you can listen and watch videos with this codec that is suppose [...]

The LG GW880 is perhaps best known for its 3G mobile platform. To make sure that it delivers the best possible performance, LG has partnered with Dialog Semiconductor for a special IC (DA9035) to help improve its power management and audio. This design-in is the latest in a series of LG 3G mobile platforms to [...]

Samsung has a new PMP ready for you, the YP-R1 PMP, which is a 2.7-inch touchscreen media player ready to offer you a fine media experience. The device isn’t official just yet but here’s what we know about it so far: it will come with AAC, FLAC, MP3, WMA and OGG audio file support and [...]

You should be familiar by now with iHome’s iPod and iPhone speaker solution. Just in case you aren’t we have quite a few new products to tell you about. iHome has launched various gadgets meant to get you that quality audio at home or while you’re on the go. iHome has the iP1, iP71 and [...]

Remember the Archos 5 Internet Media Tablet which we covered a while ago? Well it’s now available and ready to ship. It has an 800 x 480 5 inch screen, 802.11b/g WiFi, the Opera Web browser with Flash 9 support, and support for most, if not all, audio and video codecs available. Like we told [...]

LG Electronics and Dolby Laboratories, Inc announced that LG will be the first cell phone manufacturer to include Dolby Mobile into future handsets. Are we to understand that LG is preparing for a whole new multimedia and music cell phone lines in the near future? With Dolby Mobile, LG will have that cutting edge audio [...]

Samsung’s new digital audio player, the U4, has surfaced on  a Korean Samung site. Not mush is known about the device except for what we can see on the pictures. As for its specifications, we are still in the dark and I guess we’d have to wait for further announcement by its manufacturer. Based on [...]

V-Moda has a new, noise-isolating dual-use headphone/headset designed to work with the Apple iPhone. The Vibe Duo comes with control/playback functionality and has a discreent microphone as well as a call button that lets you make/receive calls and control music playback functinos of the iPhone. Which basically translates to you not having to use the [...]

Advanced MP3 Players announced that the recently announced Cowon iAudio Q5 portable media player available is now available in 40GB and 60GB capacities in the UK. They claim it to be the equivalent of an ultra-mobile PC more than a PMP, running on WinCE 5.0 Professional as its operating system. The device features MSN Messenger, [...]