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[GadgetSpy] Using the Nespot Wireless network, the WLAN-enabled MP3 devices will give users wireless access to streaming music directly to their MP3 player. Users will also be able to purchase and download music directly to the player, and even create personal broadcasts through online blogging services.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Computer Alchemy] NHJ VHD-5500 Digital Jukebox: Here's our Gizmodo challenge to Apple et al—create a smaller Bluetooth dongle or built-in unit and nice-looking headphones. I personally know fifteen people who would entertain purchasing such a device, so that's like $2000 right there. Come on, already.

[Krunker] Samsung coming out with Wi-Fi enabled MP3 players: It looks like Samsung will be releasing MP3 players which have integrated Wi-Fi capabilities. What does mean for the average user? It means you’ll be able to download music directly onto your MP3 player from any available wireless hotspot.

[Engadget.com] Engadget - www.engadget.com: Nope, Sony’s new Vaio VGN-T350 wasn’t the first laptop to combine WiFi, Bluetooth, and a wireless cellular data connection into one package; an obscure Taiwanese manufacturer by the name of Dialogue beat them to the punch by nearly year with the A33i, their first model in their line of superconnected FlyBook tablet-style PCs. Now they’re back with two new versions, the V33i and V35i, both of which rock the tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (with an optional EV-DO module!) and have 802.11g, up to 2GB of RAM, and an 8.9-inch widescreen LCD touch screen (that rotates around so you can write on it like a tablet PC).

[Engadget.com] The Mercedes MP3 player watch - Engadget - www.engadget.com: I think the wireless headphones mentioned would be a good idea. However, I'm a little hesitant about having to charge up my watch every 6-8 hours. That, and only having a display you can use to tell time is a little irritating on an MP3 player.

[Engadget.com] Creative prepping wireless MP3 player - Engadget - www.engadget.com: Creative, the company behind all that seemingly endless series of Nomad Zen MP3 players , is set to drop a new wireless player on us. If you’re hoping for something with WiFi or Bluetooth in there, you’re gonna be sorely disappointed, because they’re going with Aura Communications’ near-field technology, which uses magnetic induction rather than radio frequency to transmit sound (and they swear the magnets won’t mess with your hard drive). The range is only about 2 meters, but that’s far enough to connect it up to a pair of wireless headphones (Aura already sells wireless cellphone headsets), and the big advantage with using magnetic induction is that you’ll be able to get headphones with a battery life of 20 hours rather than the five or six hours that stereo Bluetooth headphones get these days (which is shorter than the life of pretty much every player out there).

[Playerblog.com] Player Blog: A Wireless Player from Creative?: LibertyLink would let the Creative device wirelessly beam music to headphones at a distance of up to 2m without significant sound degradation. Also, you would not be able to wirelessly connect the Creative device to a computer, you would still need cables for that. [Via Engadget]

[Gizmodo.com] Gizmodo: BargainPDA has details about the upcoming Tatung V620, a Microsoft Portable Media Center-compatible device that will be released in the US (unlike most other Tatung products). The V620 is smaller than most other PMCs (except the Samsung YH-999 it seems to me), but is most interesting as a second-generation PMC device, which means it will play other video formats beyond WMV, like DivX. The reason the PMC platform has failed (by my reckoning, at least) is that it’s dumb to buy video players that only play one format, especially when non-Microsoft-branded models play almost anything you can throw at them. The Windows Media Center integration, however, is a nice feature, so if the 2nd gen PMCs can do all that and more, they’ll be worth considering again.