We don’t really look at Korean PMPs as cheap and Oracom’s W10 is no exception. The 2GB will set you back $63, the 4GB $80 and the 8GB about $104. The specks aren’t that great either: a 2-inch 220 x 176 screen and a so-so 44.8×91.4×9.9mm form factor. Video playback of course, text viewing and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Digital Cube’s iStation T3 is a very sleek PMP. It has a passing resemblance to the iRiver W7 and W10. From a company that offers GPS-enabled media players and eDics, the iStation T3 is a non-navigation PMP with e-Dictionary functionality. It has a 4.3-inch touchscreen which is just delicious for a PMP and support for [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 7, 2009
At CES 09, iRiver made another big splash with several annuncements. Honestly, it’s like experiencing a flash-flood of new gadgets. It will take some time before we understand everything that iRiver has dropped today. iRiver D50N PMP: very interesting PMP that could be a game-changer in the PMP and e-Dictionary industry. The D50N is a 4.8-inch [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 12, 2008
iRiver has a cellphone, finally, after showing of the W10 with calling capabilities at CES earlier this year. The official specs of the iRiver Wave includes a 3-inch touchscreen, 4GB of storage space, WiFi and excellent audio/ video support. It’s an iRiver PMP with a phone and it will be available at Korea’s KT Telecom [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Korea is investing heavily on its own WiBro ( IEEE 802.16e) technology, which delivers broadband speeds wirelessly at a cheap price. It’s also supposed to be faster than HSDPA. Samsung’s SWT-W100K has WiBro and a 4.3-inch WVGA touchscreen, GPS and a PIP (Picture in Picture) DMB user interface that will make the iPod Touch a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 9, 2008
CES has held a river of surprises for iRiver watchers, and the surprise keeps on flowing. Remember the one-eyed touchscreen PMP we announced late last year? The W10 is one well-connected PMP but apparently it wasn’t enough for iRiver, adding GSM cellular connectivity to the touchscreen WiFi-enabled device. It has 3 inches of screen space [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 30, 2007
Two more PMPs are coming out of iRiver’s closet. The D27 is another e-Dictionary with a QWERTY keyboard. It has a WVGA screen with support for ASF, OGG, MP3, WMA, JPEG, GIF , BMP, TXT files. There’s an FM tuner on board and 10EQ for the audio files and 2GB of onboard memory. We [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 20, 2007
The W10 touchscreen PMP by iRiver is one of the most advanced PMP vaporware of its time. Now it appears iRiver is serious about unleashing the W10 to the world, probably only for Koreans in November. Specs include a lot of features not found in many playerof its size yet, even the most hyped like [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 6, 2007
The European iRiver site has posted a shiny new black iRiver W10 promo image with its complement of specs. We already know it’s got WiFi and WPS (WiFi Positioning System). The screen is a 3-inch 480 x 272 (WQVGA) TFT LCD. It supports WMV 9, ASF, OGG Q10, MPEG4 SP videos H.264, MP3, WMA, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 21, 2007
We don’t have much details about the W10 player, which is supposed to be a complete PMP with a virtual dial pad interface, VoIP and WPS (WiFi positioning system) functions. Not unless you can read Japanese…. More about WPS. It’s supposed to be an alternative to GPS and works on Windows XP and Windows Mobile. [...]
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
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