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Nextar Launches Sears- and Drugstore-bound iPod Touch Clone
Wired: Gadget Lab — If you want to know your options the next time you drop into a Sears or a random drugstore and need to buy a cheapie media player, we have an answer. You may not want to hear it, though. Low-budget gadget-maker Nextar has come up with an iPod Touch clone, the MA809, but the quality screen, design advantage, and overall quality of the real Touch is so far above the other, that the $80 difference between the 8GB versions seems ludicrous.  At a first glance, the $150 8GB MA809 media player doesn't look too bad. It's slim at .25 inches, has a 2.8-inch TFT screen (at 400x240 pixel resolution), and supports different video ...

Nextar MA809 to Deliver Widescreen Vid for Less
Gearlog — Nextar knows value, and it delivers attractively-priced gadgets that often stack up well against the competition. Sometime in Q2 the company will release the MA809, a quarter-inch-thick video player that makes handheld widescreen video available to anyone. The MA809 will come at three storage capacities: 2GB ($99.99), 4GB ($119.99), and 8GB ($149.99). Besides video, it will be able to play MP3 or WMA tracks and display JPEGs, BMPs, and GIFs. It will also have an FM tuner, FM recorder, voice recorder, and microSD card reader. The only thing that has me worried is the ...