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MobiBLU Unveils A3 and A5

By: Jenn K. Lee on March 17, 2007 12:12 AM

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Two new nearly identical mobiBLU players were announced at CeBIT in Germany this week. As you can see, the A3 and A5 sport a rather eye-catching (albeit familiar) blue LED surrounding their controls. Sadly, though, that's about it. Seriously, aside from the bright lights, the players offer nothing we haven't seen a hundred times before.

Equipped with a 1.5" (A3) or 1.8" (A5) 65K-color LCD, the flash DAPs have microSD card slots (no info on internal storage), FM radio and recorder, built-in microphone, photo viewer, and support for MP3, WMA, and MTV files. You've read this a hundred times before, too, but it fits nicely with an unoriginal player so here goes: pricing and availability are currently unknown.

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Sunshine on April 5, 2007 8:12 PM

MobiBLU players offer a couple of features that are near and dear to my heart: scheduled FM recording and bookmarking. Here's hoping it takes after the DHH-200 in memory and features.

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