Music gear and players, from portable players to the concerts and showcases I have been to.
The Sony Walkman NWZ-A15 is the world's smallest and lightest Hi-Res Audio digital music player. Launched in Singapore in October 2014 at S$299, it aims to reproduce music exactly as artists intended, drawing on Sony's acoustic engineering technologies.
I was invited to the Sony Walkman Z Series launch at Helipad yesterday. The first product in the new Z Series is the Walkman Z1050 player, with solid specs for a music player: a 1GHz dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2.
Thanks to SingTel for inviting me to the SingTel AMPed Lady Gaga 'Born This Way' Showcase at Marina Bay Sands on 7th July 2011. Lady Gaga came to mark AMPed's second anniversary, having launched the service here two years earlier.
Ordered my sixth-generation iPod nano on 30th September 2010 and received it today. DHL actually tried delivering yesterday while I was out, since I always assumed they only worked weekdays. I picked Graphite to match my black Crumpler bag.
Thanks to Amelia and Felicia, Li Xiang and I were invited to the Sony Ericsson Wonder Girls Showcase at Marina Bay Sands. The Wonder Girls are Sony Ericsson's Asia Pacific ambassadors, and I was thrilled, preferring them to Super Junior.
Bought the Sony ICF-C1iPMK2 for S$157: the S$179 retail dropped to S$159 with member discount, then a S$2 carpark claim. It fits my iPhone 3GS well, needing no dock adapter thanks to an adjustable support at the back.
F1 Rocks Day 1 was fantastic despite three glitches: Soda Green's set was halted ten minutes by a sound fault, A-Mei's mic stayed silent for five minutes, and the changeover from A-Mei to Jacky Cheung dragged past thirty minutes.
Thanks to 24seven and STB, we bloggers got an exclusive tour of the F1 Rocks stage. F1 Rocks runs Thursday to Saturday, 24th to 26th September 2009, at Fort Canning Park. Tickets are limited, with Saturday already sold out.
Apple has refreshed its iPod line. The Shuffle gains pink, green and blue, plus a polished stainless-steel edition exclusive to the online store, and now announces a full battery by voice. Third-party headphones with the Shuffle remote finally work too.
I was invited to the SingTel AMPed event at Mandarin Oriental. AMPed is a music service much like Nokia Comes With Music, but not tied to any phone, working on Nokia, Samsung or Sony Ericsson.
Apple has refreshed the iPod Shuffle, now 4GB only at S$128. Instead of many colours there are just two, silver and black, and the design is now vertical rather than square. Despite lacking a screen, it adds a VoiceOver feature.
Nokia today launched the XpressMusic 5800 and the Comes With Music service at Velvet Underground. Comes With Music is now live, with Singapore the first country in Asia to get it.
Nokia has announced its Comes With Music range for Singapore. The revolutionary digital music offer will be available on the Nokia 5800, 5320 and 5220 XpressMusic devices, as well as the N96, N85 and N79 multimedia computers.
I was invited to a one-hour Nokia Comes With Music session at Nokia's Singapore office. The service arrives here soon, and the much-anticipated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic lands before month's end. Comes With Music bundles unlimited track downloads with the phone.
Apple has just refreshed its entire iPod lineup at the Let's Rock event, the last refresh having been on 6th September 2008. The second-generation iPod Touch features a stainless-steel design, side volume controls and a built-in speaker.
Nokia has announced that the Nokia Music Store in Singapore is now live at music.nokia.com.sg, offering millions of tracks from major international labels plus locally relevant content. Music lovers finally gain easy, legitimate access to the songs they love.
My old Sitoca table has lasted over five years and is still excellent, so I'm passing it to Li Xiang, whose table is collapsing. I went to Ikea for a new desk, a table top on Vika Grevsta legs.
Apple iPod Touch 8GB for S$498, or Asus Eee 4G for S$598? Two very different gadgets at a similar price, one a sleek media player, the other a tiny netbook. Any suggestions or comments to help me decide?
Apple has announced a new iPod branch, the iPod Touch, refreshed the Shuffle and Nano, and renamed the fifth-generation iPod the iPod Classic. Imagine an iPhone without calling, just 8mm thick, and you have the iPod Touch.
My first review here, so please be gentle with my skills; it's a home-made, unprofessional effort. In summary, the Samsung YP-K3's sound equaliser is a great feature, its sound quality clearly beats the iPod, and the interface impresses too.
Sony has answered Apple with this. The brand-new Sony MP3 Walkman combines high-end design with ease of use and advanced functionality. It comes in two sizes: the NW-A3000 holds 20GB and the NW-A1000 6GB.
Steve Jobs announced the Apple iPod nano on 7th September 2005. As Apple put it, take everything you love about iPod, shrink it, then shrink it again. The pencil-thin nano comes in 2GB and 4GB models, starting at $199.