Dec 8, 2009

Haier Theatre PMP - first media player with touchscreen


Haier, the Chinese company, has announced its first handheld media player which is equipped with a touchscreen in the U.S. market, called Haier Theatre.

The Haier Theatre PMP is equipped with 3-inch screen, performed on a capacitive technology that should be more sensitive to finger input. The Haier Theatre player is offers versions with 4GB and 8GB of internal memory and it is equipped with FM tuner, an accelerometer, a microphone and voice recorder function.

Haier Theatre can play music in file formats like MP3, WMA, AAC and OGG, watch videos in MPEG 4 (AVI), as well as images in JPEG and TXT. Haier Theatre portable media player is provides up to 12 hours of playback music.

Cost: 4GB version costs $90, and 8GB costs $100.