Cowon teases three new touchscreen PVPs

Donald Bell | Aug 26, 2008

Cowon is teasing three new portable video players for the upcoming 2008 IFA showcase in Berlin.

The Cowon S9 touchscreen portable media player has not yet been officially announced for the US. Bummer. (Credit: Cowon)

Along with the Cowon P5 unveiled last month, the newly announced S9, O2, and L3 make up a formidable new product lineup of touchscreen beauties--none of which have been officially announced for the US. Our Korean blogger posted about this recently.

The prettiest of the bunch, the Cowon S9, includes a 3.3-inch OLED touch screen (480 x 272 resolution), music and video playback, photos, Bluetooth, composite video output, FM radio, voice recorder, and a built-in accelerometer that will rotate the screen depending on how it's held.

The backbone of the S9 is a 500MHz dual-core processor and a rechargeable battery capable of 40 hours of continuous audio playback. No word yet on price or memory capacity.

The Cowon O2 looks like an A3 without the infuriating joystick. (Credit: Cowon)

Next up is the Cowon O2, a portable video player with a gargantuan amount of video and audio format support. The O2 is being offered in white, pink, and black, with either 8GB, 16GB, or 32GB capacities, which can be expanded using SD memory cards. The O2's 4.3-inch touchscreen can be used for video, photo, and music playback, and extras such as a built-in speaker and TV output are also included. Cowon also lists a "recording" feature on the O2, which could mean video, line-in, or voice recording (or all three).

Given that Cowon saw fit to load the O2 with so much video codec support (DivX, Xvid, MPEG-4, WMV, H.264, MPEG11, MJPEG), and the O2's side panel looks remarkably like the video input panel on the Cowon A3, I'm betting we'll see similar AV recording capabilities included on the O2.

The Cowon L3 includes a built-in mounting bracket on its back. (Credit: Cowon)

Finally, the biggest beast of the bunch, the Cowon L3 is a 7-inch touchscreen PVP (800 x 480 resolution) that continues Cowon's encroachment into the realm of GPS.

A SIRF III GPS antenna seems to be built in to the tablet-size Cowon L3, along with an internal speaker, FM transmitter, SD card slot, an IR sensor for the included remote control, and a metal latch plate presumably for mounting the device in your car.

The L3 relies on Flash memory, although there's no official word on how much memory Cowon has crammed in there, how much the device will cost, or if it will even make it to the US.

Via Crave CNET

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FishSM says...
Cool!!! Finally a PMP/mp4 with aduio life more than 25 hours... Can't wait for it though. S9 design currently looking good

Sep 01, 2008 20:22

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FishSM says...
By the way... Is all or most of Cowon products available in singapore? Another korean brand, Maxian, also available in singapore, but not all products. As for AsiaCnet, some products don't have rating and review. May be due to the vast amount of new products coming out. Also the products is there but as time goes by, it became old and prople won't been looking much for it, so no rating, review will be added.

Sep 01, 2008 20:27

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