In efforts to showcase the best looking portable media player’s and digital audio player’s at IFA, iriver has announced a new PMP and a GPS with media capabilities.

The first device announced is the iriver P20, which was originally shown off at the past CES in January 2008. It sports a 4.1-inch AMOLED touch screen, which is a bigger screen than most PMP’s these days. In addition, the battery life is pretty good, 12 hours for music, 9 hours for video, and up to 8 hours with DMB TV. Although, I do think the battery life when just playing music should be a bit higher, but for video and DMB TV, it’s good. It is expected to come with either an 80GB or 120GB hard drive.

At CES last January, I dropped by the iriver booth to see some of their newest products. That is where I first saw the Spinn MP4 Player, and when I say saw, I mean, just saw. They did not give me the opportunity to try it out, even though they were very excited about one of their latest portable media players. It was completely under glass, and I had doubts whether the model even worked.

Well, the Spinn has recently been caught on video in action, and it is everything iriver said it would be. See that cylindrical thing on the right side of the unit? That is the controller for the Spinn, which allow you “spin” it like an old school radio dial.

However, if you don’t want to “touch that dial”, so to speak, you can always use the 3.2-inch touch sensitive screen which is demonstrated in this video after the jump.

I have to admit that this post is way overdue but better late than never. A full three months after the end of the 2008 CES we would be crazy not to thank our sponsors. Without these three companies we would have gotten nowhere while out in Vegas. Pentax – We were thankful to be more »

I have the patience of a four year old. I don’t want to know about things available in six months, I want it now. OK, really I wanted it five minutes ago, but you get my drift. CES is all about the future and that is fine, but what about things you can take away now? Here is my list of cool things I took away:

SimulScribe - I’ve been waffling back and forth on giving this a shot. This service takes over your voicemail from your carrier and then emails/sms you the transcribed version along with a wav file. That sounds scary at first, but it is simple and completely reversible, not unlike a vasectomy. The result is you don’t need to stand there listening to voicemail (which is a complete waste of time). Instead of playing the message and listening to callers stumble over their ideas, you cut right to the chase and speed-read their message.

Motorola introduced two new handsets at the recent CES in Las Vegas. The W230 and W270 are GSM handsets with music capabilities and expandable memories, supporting microSD cards of up to 2GB. They also offer a simplified interface for texting. Both devices also offer a digital music player and FM radio with recording features and more »

Sony Ericsson announced the release of its newest Bluetooth headset at CES 2008. The HBH-PV712 Style Edition is aimed toward busy yet style conscious women. It features Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, digital signal processing and fast automatic volume adjustment technology, up to 15 hours of talk and 500 hours of standby time, a comfortable ear more »

At the recent CES in Las Vegas, Toshiba announced several additions to its AMD based A215 notebook line. The Satellite A215-S6805, A215-S6814, and A215-S6820 feature AMD’s Turion 64X2 Dual Core Mobile Technology processor, which provides power and productivity in a mobile form factor. They also come with Windows Vista, a 15.4-inch TrueBrite widescreen, and a DVD SuperMulti Optical Drive. The new additions to the A215 family can be found at ToshibaDirect.com and retailers nationwide. Here’s a detailed look at the specs and suggested price for each new model:

At the recent CES in Las Vegas, iriver presented its entry into the handheld PC market when it debuted WING. This device features web browsing, instant messaging, email, photo, music and text messaging ability along with an FM radio and camera. The Linux powered device is a black and white clamshell boasting a 4-inch TFT-LCD more »

At the recent CES in Las Vegas, Toshiba announced it is lowering the price of its HD DVD notebook line to just $899, beginning with the Satellite A205. This allows more users to have access to these powerful, high-end machines. Toshiba also announced that the Qosmio G45 now features the world’s first notebook HD DVD-R/RW more »

In cased you missed it, or want to watch it again, here is the video spoof shown during the CES 2008 Bill Gates keynote about his last full day at Microsoft. The production team pulled out an all-star cast for Mr. G, including: Brian Williams, Steve Ballmer, Matthew McConaughey, Robbie Bach, Jay-Z, Bono, Steven Spielberg, George Clooney, Jon Stewart, Kevin Turner, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Al Gore, Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie.