SmartQ has been one of the more visible Chinese companies in the PMP market. Their latest announcement, the SmartQ MID, sends a clear message to industry watchers: SmartQ means business. The SmartQ 5 may be a little too late to compete with the COWON Q5, nevertheless it is unmistakable the two devices have many features [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 20, 2008
COWON America has announce large capacities of two critically acclaimed COWON PMPs, the A3 and the Q5W. You 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 here. The 80GB COWON A3 will be available May 26 for an MSRP of [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 9, 2008
MPIO is known in this website as a manufacturer of PMPs with quite amusing designs, and it comes as no surprise that one of their players was voted one of the worst DAP of 2007 by CNET. MPIO’s most recent model, however, might just vindicate the company. Sure, the V10 is a Cowon Q5 wannabe [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 31, 2008
Korea’s 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 4.3-inch 480 x 272-pixel touch screen supporting 16m colors. It’s compatible with WMV, AVI, MP3, WMV, OGG, JPG, BMP, PNG files and with a DMB TV tuner built-in it [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 27, 2008
It’s a little too early (or maybe too late) for those Christmas price cuts, but I’m not complaining that COWON lowered the prices on their PMPs, making their awesomiffic gadgets more affordable now. The Q5W is still kind of expensive at $509 but at least you save $40 from the price cut. Oh, and [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 14, 2008
Clipta - new video wave: Cowon Q5 Review Gen.mp3 The 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 COWON gave them is a Windows CE device powered by a 600Mhz processor and a 5-inch 800 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 6, 2008
We’ve had a glance at the iRiver P10 more than a couple of times before. The 4.3-inch touch screen puts it on the same category as the Archos 605 and the COWON Q5 or just about. It is also equipped with DMB TV and TV Out. No WiFi or GPS, so expect a fairly [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 31, 2007
There’s is no corroborating evidence that Creative is at work on a touch screen media player, but here’s a photo nonetheless of such a device. Apparently, it supports stylus input. And it boasts a big display as well, at least 5 inches. But there also lies the problem. If you ignore the Creative logo at [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 27, 2007
The COWON N3 is another multi-featured PMP from COWON. From the information available now, the N3 does not have the same built-in connectivity options as the Q5, which is a PMP with WiFi, HSDPA and GPS as well as EDGE and GPRS connectivity. Powered by the same Alchemy AU 1250 600MHz and running Windows CE [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 5, 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 [...]
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