There’s no real difference between the COWON Q5W for the U.S. market and the original COWON Q5, which orginally came out for the Korean market. COWON’s multi-connected and multi-featured PMP has been much wowed here at this web site and for good reason. Not only is the 5-inch 800 x 400-pixel touchscreen PMP and the WiFi, HSDPA, EDGE, GPRS and GPS, FM tuner on board enough to make the Q5 the mother of all PMPs, it’s also reasonably priced at $599 for the 60GB and $549 for the 40GB.
The Q5W’s main difference from the Q5 is the lack of a TV tuner. In Korea, a DMB tuner is built-in. The screen and movie-viewing is excellent, especially with the DivX/XviD support: the 16.7 million color support and 500:1 contrast ratio doesn’t go into waste. Gizmodo has a more detailed review of the COWON Q5W (link below) but in summary, DivX viewing is excellent with great speakers to boot, all aspect ratios of video files are automatically fit to the screen, audio support is from here to Timbuktu, GPS is great, WiFi so-so but workable and Windows CE is tolerable on this one. When they are going to add DVB TV, we don’t know.
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December 6th, 2007 at 8:05 am
[...] reason. Not only is the 5-inch 800 x 400-pixel touchscreen PMP and the WiFi, HSDPA, EDGE, GPRS and GPS, FM tuner on board enough to make the Q5 the mother of all PMPs, it’s also reasonably priced at [...]
December 6th, 2007 at 8:05 am
Does it really have GPS built-in? If so, it just might be the all-in-one (GPS/WiFi/BT/Xvid playing) PMP that I’ve been dreaming of.
December 6th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Yep and in korea it even has a TV tuner.
December 11th, 2007 at 10:25 am
Another review available at gadgetaholic
http://gadgetaholic.com/content/view/198/
December 12th, 2007 at 12:31 am
this part must be a typo ==> “HSDPA, EDGE, GPRS”
The Cowon website mentions nothing about cellular phone capability.
January 14th, 2008 at 9:37 am
[...] COWON Q5 is one of the best PMPs out in the market. It is a multi-connected platform for users who only want the best in portable movie viewing. What [...]
January 31st, 2008 at 10:03 am
[...] WithView is not as well-known as COWON but perhaps it new touch screen PMP/DMB TV will change things quickly. The HM-U500 has a nice [...]
March 14th, 2008 at 3:24 am
[...] CNET. MPIO’s most recent model, however, might just vindicate the company. Sure, the V10 is a Cowon Q5 wannabe but design similarities from the Q5 aside, the V10’s 3-inch (480 x 272) touchscreen [...]
May 20th, 2008 at 9:49 am
[...] can read our posts on the COWON Q5 here. What’s the difference between Q5 and QW5? Read it here. For the COWON A3, read it [...]
May 20th, 2008 at 9:52 am
[...] can read our posts on the COWON Q5 here. What’s the difference between Q5 and QW5? Read it here. For the COWON A3, read it [...]