Wal-mart sells a stylish and compact portable media player called TAVI.

The TAVI PMP has a 20GB hard-drive and 3.5 inch LCD display with 320x240px inside a white body measuring 3.6" x 3.2" x .97". The TAVI portable media player weighs 8.9oz.

Interesting highlights include a TV-Out which support HD resolutions of 720p and 1080i and a optical Audio interface supporting 5.1ch surround sound.

Besides this the TAVI portable media player features a FM Tuner, built-in stereo speakers, Equalizer with 27 presets, photo viewer, USB 2.0, 10.5 hours music playback battery life and 5.5 hours video playback.

Supported video formats are DivX 3.11/4/5, XviD, MPEG1 (VCD), MPEG2 (DVD), MPEG4 (WMV and ASF: transcoding software) up to 720x560 pixels, 30 f/s, 8Mbps Bitrate.

Supported audio formats are MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, AC3 and AAC. See also the TAVI site for more photos and technical details of this portable media player. TAVI is a brand of a California based company called New Media Life (site)

Meanwhile, Electronista raises the possibility that the AT&T data entries for the various iPhone payment methods may have been completed automatically regardless of the carrier's intent to use them for shipping phones.

Thus far, AT&T has committed only the pricing officially announced by Apple at Macworld San Francisco in January, which asserted that iPhone will be available starting from $499 for a 4GB model with a two-year service subscription.