The claim by Chinese PMP maker OPPO hit us with a little shock to the system. China has never made high-def touchscreen PMPs before? I guess no matter how the rendered photos suggest touchscreen, it isn’t touchscreen when there’s no touchscreen. So we’ll take this announcement giving the benefit of the doubt to the new OPPO S39, the first ever touchscreen HD PMP.
Here’s what we’re really looking at when we are oggling the photo above:
- 4.3-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen
- 720p video encoding
- 8GB internal
- rmvb, rm, flv, avi, dat, vob, mpg, mpeg, mkv, ts, WMV, ASF, 3GP
- UI includes virtual keyboard
- Album cover, drag and drop, screen shot functionality and looks like great overall UI aesthetic
- games
No price yet but we’re hoping it doesn’t match the features all too well.
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April 28th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Now why release an “HD” pmp with support for .MKV but only offer 8GB of memory?
That makes absolutely no sense.
April 28th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Ed, it’s bound to have memory extension slot.
April 28th, 2009 at 11:54 am
BrianB it could very well have a memory slot but I’d rather the memory be solid state. That’s just me.
April 28th, 2009 at 11:56 am
I expect if it’s any good it will sell very well. If it sells very well, they can put out higher capacities, no problem.
April 28th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Fingers crossed. There is nothing in the market that plays a host of HD files (MKV) in a portable form factor.
April 28th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Dang it, I keep putting off buying a new one, cause I am waiting for MKV support. And this one sure does look the part nicely.
August 29th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Anyone know the type of USB connector is on the unit. Worry about replacement parts.
August 31st, 2009 at 2:39 am
i bought oppo s39 at http://www.jiongtang.com/shop , and got screen guard ,UI looks great , but it doesn;t support tv-out