The much-anticipated iRiver SPINN will be a touchscreen PMP. This is unexpected because we’ve always thought, the PMP will be controlled using the hinge spin-wheel on the right side with a new D-Click system (supposed to be dubbed SPINN). Even the FCC leak was mistaken about this. iRiver had us all fooled on this one. Worse, we have no idea if we want it, not having any clue what the UI is like.
Officially, it has a 3.3-inch touchscreen (AMOLED, ladies and gents) with 480 x 272-pixel resolution. It’s equipped with T-DMB, Bluetooth and DAB, supposedly and will come at quite a good pricing: 4GB for $259 and 8GB for $299 or thereabouts for Korean pricing. No word on US pricing or US availability but the UK is supposed to get the iRiver SPINN August.
[via engadget]
July 29th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Yes, the UI is now quite confusing without seeing it in action. The 3.3″ AMOLED will probably be a very nice display. AMOLED has excellent image contrast - better than the LTPS LCDs.