Newsmy XO's razor-thin 5.5mm PMP

Juniper Foo | May 22, 2009

A mirror that plays media, or a media player that doubles as a mirror? (Credit: Newsmy)

My handheld device doubles as an organizer and multimedia player, so there's no real desire to get myself a dedicated media player. However, just for the heck of it, because it's probably the skinniest portable media player we've come across, the Newsmy XO may compel me enough to part with some moolah for it.

At a blade-thin 5.5mm, this is surprisingly meaty in offering. It squeezes in a 1.5-inch color AMOLED display with pimped-up mirror finish, touch-sensitive buttons, 22GB of internal storage and an FM tuner and receiver. There's more. It also packs an e-book reader, picture browser, video recorder with built-in mic, and support for AVI, MP3, WMA, FLAC and APE.

The bad news is you'll have to factor in an air ticket to China for this, or search diligently among the mom and pop electronics stores for a parallel import. The good news is, if you do accidentally sit on this and snap it, at US$44 a pop, this isn't an iPod touch that'll make you cry buckets.