KnoxNews provides a preview of Samsung's Napster-branded portable music player (photo in article) that will be co-marketed with Napster's upcoming music service. Napster 2.0 will be launching officially on October 29th and Samsung's new Napster player will be priced comparably to the iPod at $399 for a 20GB model.
The article details that the Samsung player will be roughly the same dimensions and weight as the iPod, but also provide line-in audio, an FM-transmitter, 10 hour battery life, and integration with Napster 2.0 jukebox software.
Early limitations noted by the reviewer include limited functionality of the FM transmitter, more complicated controls than the iPod, and bugs with transferring songs and playback.
Napster is considered by some to be Apple's biggest competition in the music download arena.
Apple has yet to reveal when the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra will be announced and released, but the dates usually follow a familiar pattern.
As usual, the event is expected to take place in the first half of September.
Labor Day falls on September 7 this year. The last time the holiday was on that day was in 2020, but the iPhone event that year was delayed until October due to the...
Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate.
In a short demo, a man holds a book up so the camera in the AirPods can see the title. "With Visual Intelligence, your world becomes savable. See something you like? Just ask me to save it for later," says the voiceover text.
Here ...
Tuesday August 18, 2026 9:14 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
Apple in April announced that Tim Cook will be stepping down as CEO at the end of this month, after 15 years of leading the company.
Cook has been Apple's CEO since 2011
Effective September 1, Apple's hardware engineering chief John Ternus will become the company's next CEO, while Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board of directors. In his new role, Apple said Cook will assist...
Apple's first foldable iPhone, with a book-style design featuring a ~5.5-inch outer display and a ~7.8-inch inner display with a minimal crease down the middle.
