The legendary classic rock group Journey (or some fans call them the J-Boys) announced that ZVUE will be selling an exclusive MP3 Player pre-loaded with all 22 tracks from the new Journey double-CD, “Revelation”.

The Journey-branded player will be available exclusively at Wal-Mart stores nationwide beginning July 22. The product retails for $39.88 and will be presented in gift-box packaging, designed to feature Journey with their new lead singer Arnel Pineda which they found on YouTube.

Each disc of the double-CD will feature 11 tracks; one will feature brand new material from the band while the other will feature re-recorded classic Journey hits.

This is cooler (wayyyyy lighter) than your father’s Walkman, the new Network Walkman NWD-B100 from Sony will soon be out in the market.  For people who are looking for ultra-portable music player this puppy can store up-to 600+ songs for a 1GB NWD-B103/B103F model and 900 songs for 2GB NWD-B105/105F. Fully charged will last up to 12 hours of playing music.

Other cool features includes,

• A drag-and-drop’ song transfer directly via the USB port.
• Copy music files from PC authomatically using its built-in transfer software.
• 3-line color LCD display helps search songs categorized by Song/Album/Artist/Folder.
• Supports voice recording with its built-in microphone.
• Comes with 6-mode equalizer.
• Record radio broadcasts from the on-board FM tuner (NWD-B103F/B105F model only)
• Supports MP3 and WMA file.

No news yet US release but the Walkman NWD-B100 will be available throughout Europe starting August this year and pre-order is also available trough Sony website.

Usually Pink theme or colored product are introduced to support or promote a charity event but but not with this new Microsoft Zune maybe it is targeting more towards the feminine users.

The new Pink Zune is coming to you on May 1st this year and will feature a 30GB of memory and a built-in FM tuner among other things. As a built-in feature, you share using WiFi any selected full-length sample tracks, playlists, photos or your own tracks directly to and from a nearby Zune unit.

It allows you to listen to the full-length songs that you receive up to three times in three days, pick the ones you like and buy them the next time you sync up. You can discover new music in the Zune Marketplace too.

IMO, Microsoft should go with a flash-based Zune (a-la iPod Nano) instead of disk-based when they first introduce Zune last year. But hey it ’s better late than never, earlier this year MS revealed that the company will introduce its first flash-based Zune music player, a direct challenge to Apple’s iPod nano but you have to wait before this Zune hit the store shelf. Oh well, Im not even sure how this gadget would look like but engadget have a couple of them.

OK, enough already of these Zune stuff, I hope you already got your new gadget from Microsoft and started enjoying or still figuring out how things works, but if you’re still contemplating if you need or want this baby then you probably have to watch other people how they unpack this gadget.

Well, after watching the video I could only say that MS need to improve their Zune packaging that would also benefit a one hand person.

Read {engadget}

Cingular Wireless also launch its own music download service called Cingular Music.  Im a Cingular user and based on what understand, Cingular Music phones will be programmed to work with Napster music service to download tracks to your PC to your mobile phone?

More details here {engadgetmobile}

Here’s a new gadget specifically for classical music lover. Well, most classical music lovers are deep of pocket but only few of them (that doesn’t include me). This stuff is worth $899 they’re selling from their own website Olive Media Products .

This gadget copies your CDs to a hard drive as a PC or an iPod does at top quality the way classical music should be done.