Polaroid makes PMPs now instead of Polaroids

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Monday, March 17th, 2008

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I would have preferred that Polaroid just ran itself into the ground making the same exact Polaroid film cameras and cartridges, but someone got ambitious over there and now they’re getting into the business of making just about everything. Coming soon is a new PMP, and believe it or not, they didn’t call it the PMPeroid, which would have sold so many.

The PMP itself sports a 4.3″ 16:9 LCD screen and 60 gigs of memory. It’s supposed to sell for under $400, so that makes it a decent deal right there as long as it’s not crippled in some way. It does WMV and mp4 and there are plans for DivX plugins, which makes it sound a bit dated. I’d like to get you more info and pictures but Polaroid.co.uk seems to have died for the moment. But keep hammering it anyway.

Polaroid reveals their new PMP player, catchily titled the MPU-43315
[Shiny Shiny]

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