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A new MP3 player has been launched by SAFA the Korean manufacturer and it’s a great looking little thing and I mean little.

Shaped as a square and is only 4 cm by 4 cm and only 1 cm deep and looks great with its flashing LED lights on the top which don’t do anything from a functional point of view but add a little fun to it.

You can play 2 games with the flashing flights from paper scissors stones  and dice, you can even make a few little logos of your own but with limited lights they won’t set the world on fire, its said to last over 12 hours yet we don’t know how much can be stored on it yet but still i a good looking device and available in different colours.

Just a little advice really as the police in Southampton have been advising residents to be a little more vigilant as MP3 players again are being targeting by thieves.

They said to keep windows and doors locked so stop them entering homes but that’s a little common sense but for people out and about just be watchful and mindful about when and where you pull out your MP3 player.

While it’s not just MP3 players they advice about, mobiles and laptops are also included, but with us running up to xmas its just worth thinking about it rather when it’s usually too late.

A new scheme by orange can turn your unwanted gadgets including MP3 players into cash.

If you take your old MP3 player laptops and mobiles into any orange store they will give you money for them.

The scheme has been called the recycle and reward scheme and orange has done some research and discovered that two thirds us have old gadgets and phones just lying around our homes and they are worth around £450 million, the price for the device depends on the brand model and whether is still working and if you are happy with the amount you could have a cheque in 7 days.

There is a new little gadget if you like listening to your MP3 player while riding your bike and often get caught out in the rain.

You proberly don’t want to get your MP3 player wet so this little case fits nice and neatly on your handlebars and with it having a build in speaker you can listen to your music and also still be able to hear the traffic around you making it alot safer than having earphones in.

It can hold most types of devices and the controls are mounted on the top of it so it’s easy to use while riding the only down side of it everybody you ride past will also be able to hear your music and think you are a bit of a geek.

The Beatles have now released a USB stick which is available in FLAC and MP3 formats for the the first time and will hit the shops sometime next month as a limited edition.

All 14 of the bands albums in stereo will be put onto the 16 GB device, they include 13 mini documentary and all include the original artwork as well as liner notes and some rare photographs of the band.

The audio will be provided in both PC and Mac with Flash built into the stick allowing everyone to be able to enjoy it.

There will be around 30,000 of the limited editions sold and you are able to pre order your now from the official Beatles store.

Microsoft has decided to launch its own equivalent to iTunes called MSM music

It offers the same formats wma and MP3 and they are free from digital rights management (DRM) the main difference between them id that you don’t pay for individual tracks you have to buy credits which are around £7.99 for 10, for one credit you can have a single and for 10 you can get an album.

They don’t have the same amount of tracks on their site yet and they will not be as good quality but will allow a wider range of digital music players to access them.

After looking the other day how Apple is developing new ideas and how good they look maybe they should have a think about some of their products already out.

Their new I-pod shuffle which is about the size of a AA battery has just been voted the worst mp3 player on the market by which.

Not the best form of advertising but it has only scored 51 out of a possible 100 and has been marked down by the fact it’s not easy to use and lacks alot of functions.

My main problem with the iPod Shuffle is that though it only costs £38, the quality of the headphones it comes with is very poor and you can only use Apple headphones. This means you can end up forking out an extra £80 to enjoy good quality sound. Said Kat Hannaford from T3 magazine.

Apple has just come up with its next generation I-pod which they have patented last year.

The device is a Bluetooth headset that has a small display on the side with the built in MP3 player.

It is said to also have on board simple but easy to use buttons that will include play pause and skip, they say this might be the natural replacement for the I-pod shuffle, as its still in the early stages of development and only has a drawing at the moment but let’s hope this come s out as its a great little device and would be better than having use the earphones in conventional I-pods

A new website has been launched from Tiscali called Music For Life which has now joined the race to be the biggest MP3 download store.

It’s made in conjunction with E-music and like the rest of the competition has deals with the biggest record labels and has launched with over 6.5 million songs.

They have offered different packs so that you can get songs for as little as 33 pence the packs are as follows

eMusic Basic 24 downloads for £9.99 per month (£0.42 per song)

eMusic Plus 35 downloads for £13.99 per month (£0.40 per song)

eMusic Premium 50 downloads for £17.99 per month (£0.36 per song)

eMusic Connoisseur 75 downloads for £24.99 per month (£0.33 per song)

they might be a bit late for this but let’s see how they get on as their packages seem better than alot of the competition.

Music is now able to follow you around the room by a fantastic new gadget by Mintpass called the mint tank.

It’s the first MP3 player of its kind where it is shaped as a cube but on the speakers at each side they have caterpillar tracked fitted and is able to move around the room, with is ultrasonic sensor it can move round obstacles and with a pyroelectric sensor which can track your body heat and allow it to follow you aound the room and also which people giving off different heat signatures it can follow different people.

This is a great gadget and a must for any music fan, if you have a couple of them they can also communicate between them and you can have a cinema surround effect in your room.