A Closer Look at the Sound Enhancing Creative Xmod
Just a few days word broke that Creative was about to release onto the world the Creative Xmod, small device that supposedly makes MP3s (and other formats of lossy digital music compression) sound better. Laptop magazine got a chance to play around with it and reports that it’s not a complete piece of garbage, going…
Samsung’s X838 Music Cellphone: Click Wheel Like an iPod, But With 360-Degree Swivel Action
Oh look, another music-playing, fun time-having cellphone that we’ll never get to see in the U.S., the Samsung X838. Featuring 1GB of on-board memory, the X838, shall we say, borrows heavily from the iPod: a click wheel-like interface is depicted in the released pictures. Oh, and it plays MP3s, which further proves that it’s ripping…
Microsoft to Release Blue Dragon Xbox 360 Bundle in Japan in Hopes of Selling Systems
At last count, Microsoft has sold dozens of Xbox 360s in Japan, but it hopes to up that number significantly with the release of a special Blue Dragon Core edition of the system. (Blue Dragon is an RPG developed by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi; it’s bound to sell more than a few systems.) In…