I bought a Buffalo Portable Hard Disk 500GB lately at Low Yat Plaza and the price is RM180.

It’s kinda fast but it’s FAT32 formatted so I reformat the HDD myself with two partition, one is NTFS and one is FAT32 so I can use it on both Mac and PC and also stream HD video on my home theater system. I recommend this portable hard disk.

Walked around the exhibition hall and found something to play and try out and that is the iRiver M3 GPS system. The design is not bad, but the screen is rather small, it will be nice if it’s widescreen. Since it’s indoor, there’s I can’t navigate around with this thing, so I place search on my house address and it works. It has preloaded maps of Malaysia and it search by cities.

What’s this different from Garmin is that it is also a media player which plays music, video, text and photo. The storage is via SD card and addition features are like local yellow page listing, 3D junction view, landmark icons and toll rates calculator.

Price at RM499 for PC Fair price, I don’t like this because the touch screen is unresponsive, I always keyed in the wrong word when searching for road and navigating around is not easy.

Somehow, I still prefer them to release a new one with hardware upgrade, better graphic, better camera, better processor. I know the games are addictive, but then it will not last for a long long time.

The big screen Nintendo DSi XL is now out in Japan, soon to be released in United State and Europe in early 2010, no idea about Malaysia release but you may start seeing it on our local game store’s shelf, for sure there would be parallel import. Mine DS Lite was a parallel import too and doing great till now. So folks out that thinking of getting a DSi, do hold back and get the XL, bigger screen means more fun!

What do you think? DSi LL or no LL?

My dad went to Shenzhen lately and bought home some Chinese made gadget. One of which he bought is this MP5 portable media player. It’s brandless or in fact the brand and model name is MP5. Very funny.

It looks pretty with a large 2.7 screen but not a touch screen., the screen is quite plastic which I feel that it will be cracked easily. Though the colour on the screen is pretty and the interface too. The buttons are all located on the side and is not difficult to navigate around the menu.

It has a 2GB memory which plays mp3, wma, avi, jpg, txt files for eBook and even Real Media format files (rmvb). There’s also FM radio and a voice recorder feature. It’s a cheap media player which cost around US$30 but there’s some cons about this are, cheap built quality, slow interface and sound quality is not as nice as the iPod.

Breaking news as Apple just update their iPod line with the new iPod shuffle. Previously, the 2nd generation’s claimed to be the world most smallest mp3 player and now, there’s even a smaller iPod shuffle than the 2nd generation iPod shuffle.

It’s a surprise release as I didn’t know about it until my brother IM me on Live Messenger. I thought he was lying and after checking through Apple’s site, it’s confirmed.

It stores up to 1000 songs in it’s 4GB capacity and will be selling at 79US$. It will also be available in two colours which is black and silver.

“Imagine your music player talking to you, telling you your song titles, artists and playlist names,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of iPod and iPhone™ Product Marketing. “The amazingly small new iPod shuffle takes a revolutionary approach to how you listen to your music by talking to you, also making it the first iPod shuffle with playlists.”

Voice Over is the new feature of this new iPod Shuffle which is that a voice will talk to you about the song name and artist, it’s also to guide you to navigate through playlist because it’s screenless. Another new thing that you see on the new iPod shuffle is there’s no button on the iPod itself, everything is controlled via the tiny remote on the earpiece.

For your little information, the 2nd generation iPod shuffle is still available in store.

Check out the guided video:

I just want one of this although I already have a 2nd generation iPod shuffle! Apple rocks! I just can’t imagine about the future 4th generation iPod shuffle.

By the way, beware of misplacing it somewhere, it’s super tiny.