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MashiMaro MP3 Player’s Audio Cable Placement Becomes the Butt of a Joke

A company has “borrowed” famous Korean rabbit MashiMaro and turned it into an MP3 player. And true to the spirit of the cartoon, they placed the audio connector in a well analyzed place: The Msplayer has 2GB of flash memory and support for MP3, WMA, OGG, ASF, ACT, WAV, and APE audio playback. When fully…

Tech News Elaine Chow Feb 24

Samsung YP-K5: Korea Gets All of the Cool MP3 Players

Samsung has released the YP-K5 MP3 player in Korea. This is pretty unfortunate for everyone else in the world because this player seems pretty awesome. It supports MP3, WMA, ASF and OGG. It is available in 1GB, 2GB or 4GB capacities and includes a snazzy, slide-out integrated speaker. The controls also look pretty good, along…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Aug 15

Freenex DMX-760 Navigator, Now With DMB Picture-in-Picture

Road warriors in Korea can look forward to the DMX-760, a Windows-based navigationa system complete with support for DMB TV broadcasts. The TV can show up in a Picture-in-Picture window, so when you’re trying to find the next cross street you can be distracted/entertained by the idiot box. An AV mode lets users connect external…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Aug 11

Motorola Z Silver Slider Launched

The successor to the Motorola Z, or MX600, has been launched in South Korea. The Motorola Z Silver is a slider phone that is a tad thicker than the RAZR V3, includes a 2.2-inch color screen, 1.3-megapixel camera, mp3 player and all of the other standard—Bluetooth, phonebook, calculator, etc. Keep drooling, Americans. This phone is…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 21

Pet Translating Cellphone Service

SK Telecom has ignored the ideas of giving cellphones the ability to better understand humans and jumped directly to animals. They have introduced the premium pet translating service. It is very simple, surprisingly. The owner will input the age, sex and type of pet into the mobile phone. Then a call is placed to the…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jun 3

LG LF-1200 Slider

This just in: Korea gets another sweet phone, Americans still wallow in self-pity. The LF-1200 from LG is a thin slider that is reminiscent of the LG “Chocolate” Phone that we mentioned back in February. The LF-1200 does have a couple stand-out features. First, it uses the integrated Bluetooth for walkie-talkie functionality—it’s like those ‘Where…

Tech News Travis Hudson May 31

Samsung SCH-B490 DMB Phone

Practically every day Korea gets a fancy new DMB phone. And everyday I get more and more jealous that the states cannot handle DMB, yet. This Samsung phones features a 2.15-inch screen that can rotate 360 degrees. 3.2 megapixel camera and SD memory expansion. Thanks to the very sexy CDMA2000 1EV-D0, this phone can stream…

Gadgets Travis Hudson May 25

Pantech Curitel PT-S210

This is mostly a camera phone for the kids. It has a 1.3-megapixel camera and MP3 built-in and uses a fairly unimpressive slide-em-out design that is sure to excite the wee ones. Korea-only, right now, obviously, but it’ll cost about $300. Pantech Curitel PT-S210 [PhoneyWorld]

Tech News Johnb Apr 3

Daewoo UMPC: Solo M1

Looks like more than one manufacturer can play the big honking DMB antenna game. This UMPC by Daewoo’s computer arm, Lucoms, looks pretty standard and will be available in Korea in May. https://gizmodo.com/cebit-06-samsung-q1-hands-on-video-159356 It’s got a 7-inch screen, 900MHz CPU, 1.3 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and WiBro. Suspecting this won’t be available over here and…

Tech News Johnb Mar 28

SK Telecom LG-SD910 Duo Slider

Two different ways to slide, why the hell not? It kind of reminds us of the latest shaving razor shenanigans. In a couple of years we will see the SK Telecom Ultra Slider Deluxe Fusion featuring five different sliding mechanisms. The screen slides out horizontally to unveil multimedia function keys and the entire face unit…

Tech News Travis Hudson Mar 22

Breast Shaper

Listen up ladies and those who abuse steroids: get those breasts in shape with the Bust Doctor. It is an aid for misshapen breasts and includes the following instructions. How to use. Firstly, spray special healthful liguid on bust. After put on bust doctor, plug in and turn on switch button. You can adjust vibration…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Feb 13

Moto’s New Korean Slider

Breaking news from Korea! Another company is releasing another cellphone! Actually this one stands out a bit more than others because it’s manufactured by a very North-American-friendly Motorola. This is the MS600, an ultra-thin slider phone. It is just over half-an-inch thick and takes a lot of features from a possible predecessor, the Motorola V3.…

Tech News Travis Hudson Feb 3

Samsung’s 7.7 Megapixel Cameraphone

The SCH B500 should be considered a camera with some phone functions. This is obviously more importantly a camera than an actual phone. The camera is 7.7 megapixels and it even has an optical zoom. With the lens retracted it is nearly an inch thick and with the lens out it easily pushes two inches.…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Jan 24

EZAV Pebble MP3 Player

The Pebble MP3 Player is a new DAP with a kooky name released by Korean-based company EZAV (our sister-site Gizmodo NL wrote about this earlier in the month). Looking a bit like a shiny pebble you’d wear around your neck, the Pebble MP3 Player is pure stylin’. A blue OLED screen allows you to view…

Tech News Gizmodo.com Dec 29

FineDrive M700D Packs DMB, GPS, and More

FineDrive is looking to take Korea by storm with its new M700D in-car multimedia system. It features GPS, video playback, and DMB for watching television while on the go. Now you won’t need a huge dish attached to the car if you’re looking to watch Battlestar Galactica. With easy navigation and few buttons, the FineDrive…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com Dec 28

MobiBlu Non-Cubed MP3 Player

Believe it or not, MobiBlu does have other products than just the DAH-1500i tiny cube MP3 player that fanboys salivate over. This here is the DHH-200, a mini hard drive based MP3 player that is available in 6GB and 8GB models. It has a pretty big color screen along with all of the other features…

Tech News Travis Hudson Dec 27

Dance, Fatty, Dance, Sez UFO

My family rolled into town a few days ago and they brought buckeyes with them. For those not in the know, buckeyes are peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate, creating a lump of pure lardo-inducing goodness that I can’t resist. As a result, I need one of these things. Reader Dan sent us this thing,…

Gadgets Johnb Dec 27

LG Busts Out Waterproof Cellphone

LG Telecom in Korea yesterday dried off the canU 502S waterproof cellphone. Developed in part with Casio (cheap keyboards anyone?), the phone is the first truly waterproof cellphone to come out in Korea. LG Telecom spokesman Kang Shin-koo is pretty confident about the phone’s ruggedness. Check what he had to say about the canU 502S:…

Tech News Gizmodo.com Dec 15

The i-Visor

Listen up, TRON, I know you are looking for a new LCD display visor that matches your bionic jumpsuit all cute-like, and this may be it. This is the i-Visor (no relation to anything iApple related) by Daeyang E & C out of Korea. What’s so special about these? Well, they are the WORLD’s FIRST…

Tech News Travis Hudson Dec 15

MPker Mobile Phone Speakers

Straight outta Korea is the MPker, a mobile phone speaker set that packs a nice little punch and has a sexy silver design. The MPker starts off more like a flat rectangle then expands to reveal the dock and speakers. It fits what looks like Samsung phones and some other models as well. Controls are…

Tech News Gizmodo.com Dec 6

Korea Only

MashiMaro MP3 Player’s Audio Cable Placement Becomes the Butt of a Joke

Samsung YP-K5: Korea Gets All of the Cool MP3 Players

Freenex DMX-760 Navigator, Now With DMB Picture-in-Picture

Motorola Z Silver Slider Launched

Pet Translating Cellphone Service

LG LF-1200 Slider

Samsung SCH-B490 DMB Phone

Pantech Curitel PT-S210

Daewoo UMPC: Solo M1

SK Telecom LG-SD910 Duo Slider

Breast Shaper

Moto’s New Korean Slider

Samsung’s 7.7 Megapixel Cameraphone

EZAV Pebble MP3 Player

FineDrive M700D Packs DMB, GPS, and More

MobiBlu Non-Cubed MP3 Player

Dance, Fatty, Dance, Sez UFO

LG Busts Out Waterproof Cellphone

The i-Visor

MPker Mobile Phone Speakers

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