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Cowon L3 7 inch GPS and PMP debuts at IFA 2008
Cowon will introduce the Cowon L3 7 inch touchscreen media player with GPS navigation at the IFA 2008.
These multitalented portable media players rarely make it outside of Korea. Features of the sleek looking Cowon L3 include 7" touchscreen with 800x480px resolution, media player, T-DMB TV, FM transmitter, speaker, SIRF III antenna, SD card slot, and remote control.
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Posted on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:58:33 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Cowon S9 premiers at IFA 2008
Besides the Cowon O2, the Korean PMP maker debuts a rather stylish PMP with AMOLED display at the IFA 2008 dubbed Cowon S9.
The Cowon S9 has a curved backside and features a 3.3 inch color AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display with 480x272px resolution and 16m colors.
Other features of the Cowon S9 include 500Mhz Dual Core CPU, T-DMB TV, Bluetooth, FM tuner, voice recorder, G-Sensor, TV-Out, 40 hour music playback on a single battery charge, music, video and photo player and Macromedia Flash User interface.
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Posted on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:52:50 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Cowon O2 debuts at IFA 2008
Portable media player and GPS maker Cowon debuts three new devices at the IFA 2008 this week. The Cowon O2 is a compact media player with DMB-TV tuner. The O2 measures 119x73x18mm and features a clean design.
Other features of the Cowon O2 include a 4.3 inch touchscreen, movie, music, photo player, dictionary, SD card slot, speaker and TV-Out.
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Posted on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:46:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Weekly Top 10: Samsung innov8, Cowon P5, W902
Samsung announced a 8MP
Camera Phone dubbed innov8 this week globally. Sanyo unveiled
accessories to charge
your Wiimotes contactless.
Sony Ericsson introduced several new
Walkman phones and
Panasonic brought out new
Digital Cameras
this week.
See also our
latest Gadget Videos.
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Posted on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Cowon P5 Luxury PMP unveiled
Cowon unveiled the Cowon P5 portable media player. The P5 comes along with a luxury hairline metal body crammed with tons of features.
Features of the Cowon P5 include 5 inch touchscreen with 800x480px resolution, Widget and Haptic User interface, T-DMB TV tuner, FM radio, Bluetooth, video and music player (AVI, ASF, WMV, MPG, OGM, DivX, Xvid, MPEG4, WMV9, MP3, WMA, AC3), photo player, document viewer, USB host, and USB 2.0.
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Posted on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:08:18 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Cowon N3 PMP with Wooden Canvas
Cowon unveils a special edition of its Cowon N3 PMP with a wooden canvas.
Cowon is not jumping on the green bamboo gadget movement, rather they want to dress up the N3 to radiate luxury. The wood application has the Italian olive style.
The Cowon N3 is a powerful PMP and GPS navigation device running on the Alchemy AU1250 600MHz CPU. The 7 inch screen has a resolution of 800x480px and is made by Samsung.
With the Cowon N3 you can watch TV while running the navigation software in a PIP frame.
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Posted on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Cowon A3 60GB Review
The test lab at our review partner Digital Trends published a review of the Cowon A3 PMP with 60GB HDD.
Quote from the Cowon A3 review: "The Cowon A3 has a lot going for it: broad file format support, gorgeous 4-inch widescreen LCD, and high-resolution AV recording features, all of which have been improved since its predecessor, the A2.
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Posted on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Cowon Q5W PMP Review
The testers at our review partner Digital Trends published a review of the Cowon Q5W PMP. The Windows CE running Cowon Q5W PMP was introduced last December.
Quote from the review:
"Jamming a Web browser, Bluetooth, a text editor, and a zillion other features into a PMP is a solid idea, but the interface must be done right.
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Posted on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Weekly I4U Top Stories: Laser TV at CES 2008, sQuba, Cowon N3
2007 is almost over. It was an exciting year for gadgets, just think of
the iPhone and all the other touch screen mobile phones it triggered. There were also
surprise hits like the
Asus Eee PC. 2008 already looks like it will also be very exciting with new
low-cost PC and notebook hardware changing the game by running Linux.
CES 2008 is
just around the corner and we will of course be reporting from the biggest
gadget show on earth again this year.
If you are a fan of our I4U
Gadget Models, please vote on the
I4U Gadget Model of the Year.
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Posted on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Cowon N3
Cowon introduces a new Navigation portable media with DMB TV in Korea with the Cowon N3.
The Cowon N3 is a powerful PMP and GPS navigation device running on the Alchemy AU1250 600MHz CPU. The 7 inch screen has a resolution of 800x480px and is made by Samsung.
With the Cowon N3 you can watch TV while running the navigation software in a PIP frame.
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Posted on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Cowon A3 Review
Gadgetaholic published a review of the new Cowon A3 PMP.
Quote from the review: "Say what you will about the Cowon A3 looking almost exactly like its predecessor, the Cowon A2. The fact is the changes are all inside; all for the better.
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Posted on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Cowon Q5W Review
We reported about the new Wifi PMP Cowon Q5W over the weekend. Now Gadgetaholic has published a review of the Cowon Q5W and compares it to the Archos 605 Wifi.
Quote from the review: "The Cowon Q5W is a feature-packed digital media player marred by poor user interface. Though it dwarfs other players in terms of features and performance, the lack of integration between all the different elements makes this player short of a sure hit.
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Posted on Tue, 4 Dec 2007 10:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
New Cowon Q5W wireless Windows PMP
The powerful Cowon Q5W runs Windows CE 5.0 on the Alchemy Au1250 600MHz and features Wifi and Bluetooth connectivity.
Other features of this interesting portable media player include a 5 inch touch-screen with 800x460px resolution, 500:1 contrast ratio, 200cd/m2 brightness, 64MB Flash, 128MB DDR2 SDRAM, MP3, WMA, ASF, OGG, WAV, FLAC, APE, MPC audio format support, and AVI, ASF, WMV, MPG, and OGM video format support.
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Posted on Sat, 1 Dec 2007 10:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
New Cowon A3 extreme PMP
Cowon announces that they will begin shipping the new Cowon A3 PMP this month. Cowon announced the A3 back in January at the CES 2007.
The Cowon A3 runs the Da Vinci video processor (like the Maxian E900) encoding video up to 1,280x720px resolution.
The Cowon A3 features a 4 inch screen with a high 800x480px resolution.
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Posted on Wed, 7 Nov 2007 02:43:28 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Cowon L2 TPEG announced
Korean PMP maker Cowon introduces a new version of its L2 do-it-all PMP. The new Cowon L2 TPEG supports real-time traffic information.
Cowon announced the L2 in June.
The Cowon L2 features a 7 inch screen and combines media player, GPS and DMB TV functionality into one sleek device. Formats supported by the media player include MP4, MP3, WMA and WAV. The Cowon L2's photo viewer supports BMP, JPG and PNG.
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Posted on Tue, 9 Oct 2007 08:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Leaked Photo shows Cowon X7?
Vague rumors about a new Cowon X7 digital media player appeared a couple of weeks ago. I4U reader David T. just emailed us a photo he got from Korea that could be the Cowon X7.
It could also just be one of the possible designs Cowon had available to choose from. The slim and clean design would be a winner.
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Posted on Thu, 9 Aug 2007 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Cowon L2 PMP, DMB TV and GPS Gadget
Cowon announces in Korea a new all-in-one portable device dubbed the Cowon L2.
The Cowon L2 features a 7 inch screen and combines media player, GPS and DMB TV functionality into one sleek device. Supported formats of the media player include MP4, MP3, WMA and WAV. The photo viewer of the Cowon L2 supports BMP, JPG and PNG.
The L2 has 2GB internal memory that can be expanded via a SD card slot. The GPS functionality is provided by a SiRF III chipset.
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Posted on Fri, 1 Jun 2007 06:20:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Cowon holds Global UCC Contest - Winner takes $2,000
Cowon is holding a global contest for user created content (UCC). The grand price is $2,000 cash. The runner-ups get Cowon A2 and Cowon D2 players.
To participate Cowon wants you to create a video about Cowon players and post it on Youtube. The video could be a Cowon iAudio review, an imitation of the Cowon theme song by Jack Lee, or about any other creative idea.
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Posted on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Cowon Q5
Cowon introduces with the Cowon Q5 a HSDPA and Wi-Fi connected PMP.
The Cowon Q5 features a 5 inch screen and comes either with a 40GB or 60GB hard-drive. The PMP runs Microsoft Windows CE 5.0 Professional on an AMD Alchemy Au1200 processor.
Other features include DVR functionality, speakers, FM Radio, Bluetooth and optional GPS navigation.
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Posted on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Cowon D2 Review
The Cowon D2 is a stylish and compact portable media player with a 2.5 inch TFT screen with QVGA resolution.
Features of the Cowon D2 include MP3, OGG, WMA, FLAC, WAV, APE audio file support, AVI and WMV video format support, 2 or 4GB flash memory, FM-Tuner, Line-in recording and a whopping 52 hour music playback time. The battery can only do 10 hours of video playback though. Measurements of the D2 are 78.0x55.4x16.6mm.
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Posted on Mon, 5 Feb 2007 08:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Cowon iAudio F2 2GB DAP Review Round-up
The Cowon iAudio F2 is a sexy little 2GB mp3 player.
Features of the F2 include a 1.3 inch color TFT screen, FM-tuner, video player, photo player, 60mW power output, 3D sound BBe, MP3, OGG, WMA, FLAC, ASF and WAV audio file support, Line-in recording. Measurements are 34.8x72.9x16.7mm.
The iAudio F2 with 2GB is currently available for pre-order on Amazon.com for $129.99.
French site Generation MP3 just published a review and a video review of the iAudio F2.
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Posted on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 07:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
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