Cowon’s Sleek Curve Announced, Doomed to Failure
Written by admin on October 6th, 2008 in gadgets.
Cowon’s sleek little media player, the S9 Curve, has an official release date. It will ship in November, at an as yet unknown price. Whatever it costs, though, we forecast poor sales. The sad fact is that Apple has the PMP market so tied up that even great looking devices like this are doomed. Here’s what you’ll be missing when you buy that ipod Touch instead:
An AMOLED touchscreen (the capacitive kind) with a 480 x 272 pixel count and a 16:9 aspect ratio. The whole thing is run by a 500MHz, dual core processor (better than the laptops of a few years ago) and can pull in music via FM radio or a DMB-T/DAB tuner. You’ll also find Bluetooth, a microphone, and a TV output. The Curve will play just about any file you throw at it:
MP3, WMA, FLAC, OGG Vorbis, AVI, WMV, MP4/H.264, JPG, GIF, PNG and SMI.
And it will keep on going for forty hours (music) and 8 hours (video). Sizewise, it is a little chunkier than the iPod Touch or iphone. The picture below will show you how it compares. The Cowon is the big red slab on the left (thanks to Sizeasy for the diagram-o-maker).
Les Lowon S9 et O2 Disponibles en Novembre [Generation MP3 via OLED Info]
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