COWON Q5W Adds the W for US Market
5 12 2007 
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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TheDreamer replied on Dec 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.
BrianB replied on Dec 6th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Yep and in korea it even has a TV tuner.
luckk replied on Dec 11th, 2007 at 10:25 am
Another review available at gadgetaholic
http://gadgetaholic.com/content/view/198/
Chris replied on Dec 12th, 2007 at 12:31 am
this part must be a typo ==> “HSDPA, EDGE, GPRS”
The Cowon website mentions nothing about cellular phone capability.