Nextar MA809 Thin Portable Media Player

Nextar is coming up with the MA809, a new portable media player that’s 0.25″ thin (almost half the iPhone 3G). The thing is, it weighs 7 ounces, which is quite a bit more than the iPhone 3G’s 4.7 ounces It weighs only 1.8 ounces, the 7 ounces mentionned ealier is the weight of the PMP with all the accessories from the retail box. That’s a little curious, but that’s what the specifications says. As any decent PMP, the Nextar MA809 plays audio (mp3+wma), video (a flavor of avi) and FM radio. There’s even software to convert videos from unsupported formats. As usual, the actual feature list is longer than an arm, so head to Nextar to get all the details. Pricing goes from $100 (2GB) to $149 (8GB). The release date is Q2 2009.