No it’s not an Apple product! Korean manufacturer Tomato has produced the most eye-catching PMPs, at least the company was pushing out some original looking products for awhile. Not so with the measly 2GB or 4GB ‘Video Touch,’ which doesn’t even try to deviate from Apple’s tried-and-true design, although it does a great job in lowering the bar with its 320 x 240 QVGA screen. Supported file types include MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, MPEG-4, and AVI, although you’d really be doing yourself a favor by putting those 59,900 ($63) or 79,900 won ($84) towards a higher capacity, higher resolution device.

Bluedot is planning to launch a new 7-inch portable DVD player ‘BDP-1725’ in Japan market next year in January. The BDP-1725 features LED backlight to consume less power and supports DVD±R/RW, CD-R/RW. It offers 5 hours of play time. Suggested price is 23,000 yen. There are so many brands offering these players and all are of almost same quality that only the price factor is left for deciding which one to buy for customers.

Cowon announced the launch of its new premium navigation ‘COWON N13′ on 2nd January 2008. With 7-inch 16.7M color digital WVGA TFT LCD from Samsung, the COWON N3 features Alchemy AU 1250 600MHz to improve video playback, SiRF III chip for high GPS reception, two SD card slots, USB host, and AV input/out. It also offers powerful multi tasking capability to use navigation, video, T-DMB, music simultaneously. It also supports overlay, PIP (Picture in Picture) / NIP (Navigation in Picture) features.

Polaroid expects to launch its portable DVD player ‘DPJ-08580B’ in Japan market. Adopting 8.5-inch screen with 480 x 234 resolutions, the unique feature of this player is that it can be equipped with iPod for playing media stored in it. It is expected to be available in mid-December, and suggested price is 28,000 (JPY).

Maxian announced the launch of its new premium PMP ‘E900 Blue Black’ in Korea market. The E900 Blue Black is an upgraded version of its previous ‘E900’ series with new blue black color and 60GB memory capacity. The LCD display supports 16M colors, brightness of 350 candela, and 170-degree viewing angle. It also supports H.264 base/main profiles.