Looks like Hyun Won’s got plans to bring their mobiBLU
DAH-1900 to America as
the B153, but the 153-hour player’s gonna see some minor changes; its namesake, for one, and it’ll also have direct href="http://www.podcastready.com">podcastready support for software-free content downloads. It’ll still have the
FM tuner / recorder, line-in encoder, OLED display, and PlaysForSure support, but since the B153 doesn’t come in
capacities larger than 2GB (yet) you’ll probably wind up listening to the same tracks a few times if you can’t make it
back to your music library for a while — unless you fill up with low-bitrate Podcasts, anyway.

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Samsung YP-U2, here. Get yer Samsung YP-U2, here. It's a little less classy than its predecessor with the fold-out USB port, but Samsung's 512MB YP-U2X -- previously seen at CES -- is now available online for $70, four line LCD display, FM tuner, voice recorder, PlaysForSure support (sorry though, this one's sans OGG), 13 hour battery and all.

iRiver Japan's the only region of Reigncom we've seen announce it today, but they've got a 2GB version of their lime green T10 due out there for ¥19,980 (about $170 US). Doesn't look to different than the MP3, WMA, OGG, ASF playing, FM tuning, voice recording device we're well used to otherwise, but it's still got that same damned single-cell AAA battery, making it one of the more capacious players to take said cells. Expect them to start selling the 26th of this month over yonder in the land of the rising sun, and who knows (if and) when elsewhere.

What do you get when you release an irked rodent onto a keyboard? Why, the randomly named Woodi CA-C360 MP3 player of course. This 39.6 x 54.4 x 11.6-millimeter player, while featuring a clean design is just another regular ol' MP3/WMA player with 1.8-inch 65k color LCD, FM tuner, voice recorder, line-in recording, and image viewer available in capacities from 256MB to 1GB. Woodi, they ask? Probably, not.

[Via Akihabara News]

We know oddly shaped DAPs are hard to come by, so we thought we'd run this whale-influenced unit by you, just in case you've been scouring the market for a marine mammal that can pump the tunes. The Toshiba Dynabook IPCZ100A sports 512MB of storage, stores a USB 2.0 connection in its tail, and has a small LCD display in its belly. There's no WMA DRM support or really much of anything, but, well, it's a whale, so let's cut it some slack.

We can’t confirm
the event (man, no one ever sends us invites), but apparently this 25th of April will see the official release of href="http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=helix">Samsung’s Helix and href="http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=nexus">Nexus XM sat rads at the href="http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/24/engadget-experiences-the-samsung-experience/">Samsung Experience in the
Time Warner Center in our fair city of New York. We’ve been kind of expecting the release of the Helix (which was
announced at CES) any day now, but the Nexus is way overdue, having been announced last September. For those thinking
of swooping in to make a purchase, the Helix is Samsung’s portable with live streaming XM and an FM transmitter. The
Nexus doesn’t have the same live sat capability, but does have 512MB and 1GB versions for playing back pre-recorded XM
streams; both feature MP3 and WMA playback, and can use the XM / Napster service. You can already href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/20/samsungs-helix-portable-xm-dap-available-for-preorder/">pre-order the
Nexus for $219 / 270, but don’t forget that you can href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/pioneer-innos-out-in-april-for-400/">pre-order that Pioneer Inno for $399,
too.

JVC is
making another effort to stake out some turf in the digital audio player market with two new flash models, the 512MB
XA-F57 and 1GB XA-F107 (which are, basically, US versions of the href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/25/jvc-alneo-xa-series-audio-players/">Alneo models the company showed in
Japan a few months back). Both models support MP3, WMA and PlaysForSure, and also include a line-in for direct
encoding. They also include everyone’s favorite feature du jour, a lanyard with an integrated headphones (of course,
that could get in the way if you don’t want to wear the player around your neck, but then if that’s the case,
you’re probably not JVC’s kind of customer). The players also have a mono LCD display, come in pink, silver, white and
black, and support mass-storage mode for non-DRM’d files. The F57 is expected to sell for $99, and the F107 should go
for about $149.

If you haven’t been getting your internet access href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/10/acer-and-webaroo-to-deliver-the-web-on-a-laptop-sort-of/">via Webaroo, you
must know that the href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/toshiba-gigabeat-s-portable-media-center-with-2-4-inch-qvga-lcd/">Toshiba
Gigabeat S is one of the most eagerly awaited new products of the year — especially by us (we were seriously
tempted to "borrow" one from the Toshiba booth at CES, but managed to resist). Now the Windows Portable Media
Center is nearly upon us, getting a full list of specs and a rough ship date — for the Japanese market, that is. Specs
look basically consistent with what we saw at CES: both the 30GB S30 and 60GB S60 will include a 2.4-inch QVGA display,
an FM tuner, and full compatibility with Windows DRM for both audio and video. They’re expected to ship in Japan, in
white, black and red versions, by the end of this month at prices of around $299 for the S30 and $399 for the S60. And
we’re going to have to decide whether to bite the bullet and pay the markup to pick one up through a gray market
shipper, or continue waiting for the eventual US release.

Sony has a new series of flash-based players, though for now, it looks like you may have to go to China (where it was designed) to get one. The CE-P series includes a 1.5-inch color OLED display, MP3 and WMA playback (no word on PlaysForSure, but we're not holding our breath), FM tuner and voice recorder. Capacities and prices include the 256MB CE-P13 for about $100, 512MB CE-P15 for about $125, and the 1GB CE-P15 for about $150. No word on when they'll be available on a continent near you.