NEC's VoToL media player

News is hitting the wires about NEC's latest, a video/audio player called the VoToL which supposedly is modeled on the shape of a perfume bottle, with a jog dial forming the "cap".

Specs: Storage is taken care of by a 30GB hard drive, and there's also an SD card slot. Supported file formats are MPEG2/4/WMV9 for video and JPEG/GIF/PNG/BMP for stills, plus MP3/WMA/WAV/Ogg/AAC audio. It's possible to copy data back and forth between an SD card and the hard disk, and there's also a textfile reader included. Display is a 2.7-inch, 320x240-dot colour LCD. Battery life is pretty disappointing, at 4 hours playback for video and 8 hours for audio.

The other noteworthy feature is voice-recognition-based translation software called Transpeech that handles English<-->Japanese.

Size is 61 x 18-22 x 123 mm, weight is 188g. Price is Y39,900 (around US$340); goes on sale late March via NEC's online shop.

[Via Impress PC Watch (Japanese)]

[CORRECTION: Yes, we did have the headline saying "Toshiba" there for a while...]

Posted by aragoto at February 14, 2006 04:57 PM | TrackBack