If your addicted to Apple’s app store and you’re looking for a PMP (Portable Media Player) stop reading. However, if your down with a touch screen media player that just handles movies, music, pictures, and e-books, keep reading.
All of the following PMP’s are OS X compatible.
We start out with Mach Speed’s TRIO TCH843. – $89
The TRIO TCH843 is an 8GB touch screen beauty. It features a touch responsive 4.3″ TFT LCD which is almost a full inch bigger then the iPod Touch’s 3.5″ Display. The TRIO also sport a MicroSD slot which allows you to double your storage for less then $20 with an 8GB MicroSD card. It’s also less then 1/2 an inch thick.
Here are the detailed specs:
- 480×272 Resolution
- Supported Video Formats: AVI,FLV,RM,RMVB,AVI,DAT
- Supported Audio Formats: Mp3,WMA,FLAC,APE
- Supported Image Formats: JPG,BMP,GIF
- Two Headphone Jacks
- Mic in Jack
- E-Book Reader
Up Next. The Eclipse TCH828 – $59.99
The 2.8″ Touch Screen display comes in on the smaller side of things but it makes up for this disaster by throwing in a nice set of features. A built in camera capable of video capture, FM tuner, and MicroSD slot are three decent additions which attempt to sweeten the deal.
Here are the detailed specs:
- 432×240 Resolution
- Supported Video Formats: AVI
- Supported Audio Formats: Mp3,WAV,WMA
- Supported Image Formats: JPG,GIF
- Video Recorder
- E-Book Reader
Last but not least we have the ARCHOS 7 Tablet – $349.99
It may be a little bit over kill but it’s the only one I could find that had both WiFI and OS X and wasn’t the iPod. And, honestly, at $349 it’s a steal. It
features a dual processor setup one clocked at 600Mhz and the other at 420MHz. It handles 720p video and has a 320GB HD. It can also pump that HD video out to your TV.
Here are the detailed Specs.
- 800×480 resolution (an anamorphic HD video is 1280×544 so it’s really like 80% HD)
- Supported Video Formats: MP4,WMV,AVI,H.264,MP2
- Supported Audio Formats: MP3,WMA,OGG,Vorbis
- Supported Image Formats: JPG,PNG,BMP,GIF
- PDF viewer
- Web Browser
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