The VPD400 drive is a pocket size, measuring 113mm x 75mm x 14mm thick and weighing a svelte 140g. Ours was a black plastic casing, but the site shows Viewsonic white and pink ubiquitous as alternatives. The screen is a 110mm active matrix LCD and the camera has a built-in 1800 mAh Li-ion.

In this case, for built-in, we will also not customer replaceable, which might be an error. Because Li-ion battery packs have a typical service life of three to four years, with a player where you can not access the battery for the update could pull the player to a premature death.

Viewsonic claims up to 12 hours of audio playback or 6 hours of video off a single charge and we do not dispute that under normal use. The machine has a display unusually geeky battery life, which shows a graph in real time voltage and current usage. Just about useless, but cool anyway.

Hallods Japanese company introduced the new F43 portable media player that comes with a 4.3-inch 1280 × 720p HD LCD screen. The player supports MPEG4, FLC, H.263, AVI, RM / RMVB, DivX-WVGA video formats and MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC and APE audio files. There are also image viewer for JPEG, BMP, PNG and TXT reader.

The F43 Hallods has 8GB of internal memory and supports microSD up to 16GB. However, unlike some Chinese MP4 players, the F43 lacks an HDMI output. Its price is 18,900 yen. [via itechnews]

ViewSonic launches VPD400 new MovieBook portable media player that can playback 720p HD video. The new MovieBook gets a 4.3-inch touchscreen 800 × 480, 400:1 contrast ratio and brightness of 300cd/m2, which is ideal for watching HD movies and films.

ViewSonic VPD400 comes with 8 GB of internal flash memory and supports microSD memory cards. It can handle most media formats including RM / RMVB, H.264/H.263. High 1800mAh Li-Ion battery provides up to 12 hours of music playback and 3 hours of HD video playback. You can get one from Amazon for $ 119.99. [via itechnews]