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Cowon A2 Review
comment: 23 | Monday, September 19 (2005) 12:08PM | Posted by Austin Vaughan
Cowon's super-fabulous new A2 is already in the hands of some lucky Koreans. A very professional looking review was posted on iAudio.com, so head on over and enjoy the pics. See HERE.


Thanks, mintcheerios

And yes, we'll be getting one of our own very soon now and then we can give you the scoop in English.
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Thomas Davie

Comments: 20
 		Sep 19 (2005) 12:22PM  

Looks like one of those thigns which will make my life better = I must have one!

Tom


Bonkerz

Comments: 5
 		Sep 19 (2005) 12:24PM  

Must. Have. Review. Now... please



rumos

Comments: 74
 		Sep 19 (2005) 01:02PM  

just one more month guys. or two.



Michael
Location: New York City
Comments: 2786
 		Sep 19 (2005) 01:11PM  

That's hot. I wonder how much it'll cost.



Allen
Location: Dub Vee Ooo
Comments: 1511
 		Sep 19 (2005) 01:34PM  

wooooooooooooooow.... Hmm.... well... this looks very very nice.... very nice indeed...



t_bizz

Comments: 198
 		Sep 19 (2005) 01:42PM  

its a fair first shot from cowon as far as pvp's go. im not impressed with its design or its size though. looks about as thick as an av300 series player which was thick when they came out but acceptable because of the lack of alternatives and the four vertical buttons look like those an the old school tv remote controll that my great grandma used to have. im intersted to see how many people bring up the same "confusing interface" argument that the av300 and 400 series got because of the vertical button lay out and the horizantal corosponding menus.



t_bizz

Comments: 198
 		Sep 19 (2005) 01:56PM  

hmm ok i checked some stats and well it is thinner than an av320 but in the same breath it is still bigger than the 30gb av500 in all dimensions despite the fact that it has the same size screen but i am not sure what the batter life of the A2 is.



wolssiloa

Comments: 20
 		Sep 19 (2005) 02:17PM  

they say the battery life is 10 hrs video, 16 hrs audio. Before if i remember correctly, they said it was 20 hrs for audio. i wanna see shots of this next to the X5.



The Netherlands

Comments: 36
 		Sep 19 (2005) 04:16PM  

Too bad it doesn't display album art. As a former AV320 user I can attest to the confusing button layout. The first time I saw a picture of the A2 I immidiatly thought , "Hey that is just like my old AV320 and why would they do it like that, it didn't work on the AV320 either?"

All the specs are known by now. Nothing new to get excited by now except for a arrival date in Europe.



Allen
Location: Dub Vee Ooo
Comments: 1511
 		Sep 19 (2005) 04:18PM  

I second the call for shots next to the x5...



mintcheerios

Comments: 11
 		Sep 19 (2005) 04:22PM  

The I-station v43 will probably have the best interface since it has a touchscreen + stylus, but the A2 has av recording. I'm still torn on which to get.

Also the A2 isn't that big. Most pictures are done using macro shots which makes it look massive.

These pictures put it into a better perspective.

[Linky]



The Netherlands

Comments: 36
 		Sep 19 (2005) 05:23PM  

Having used my Pocket PC as a DAP for many months now I can tell you a touch screen on a DAP or PMP is overrated. I good interface is much more important then any touch screen can ever be.



Austin Vaughan
Location: Lenexa, KS
Comments: 768
 		Sep 19 (2005) 05:39PM  

a touch screen sucked, badly, on the Olympus MR-500. we can do without quite nicely.



Hyper_Noodle

Comments: 226
 		Sep 19 (2005) 06:47PM  

LOL! In the link from mintcheerios, i love the pic where the A2 is next to iriver's U10, and the A2's kinda got the "full picture" of what the U10's displaying. That's actually kinda creative marketing, imho. And yeah, those pics definately give a better feel for the size. It actually looks petty small compared to those headphones they show.



shiftis
Location: Canada
Comments: 369
 		Sep 19 (2005) 07:19PM  

Yay, photos.



Intelli

Comments: 125
 		Sep 20 (2005) 12:00AM  

Austin... you simply MUST battle this one vs the new i-Station!



t_bizz

Comments: 198
 		Sep 20 (2005) 03:36AM  

@ netherlands, I have an av3xx player too and never found the button layout confusing i brought it up because it always bothered me that people would list it as a con when its realy plainly obvious what does what and that having the three influence buttons makes completing functions more direct and easy. the shape of those buttons as i mentioned before though they look oldschool and i dont mean hip retro type oldschool i mean grandmas old crapy, prolly the first wireless, tv remote controll oldschool. i think out of habit i would bang the side of the player with my palm as if i was jiggeling the batteries to get the damn thing to work.



watergrave

Comments: 287
 		Sep 20 (2005) 05:09AM  

Me is drooling.... Cowon has done it again...



nym9

Comments: 41
 		Sep 20 (2005) 06:22PM  

Cowon A2 vs I-station v43

Cowon: Available everywhere in USA, supported everywhere.
I-Station: Available.....nowhere in USA, supported nowhere.

Yeah that was a real tough decision.



chopper

Comments: 31
 		Sep 20 (2005) 06:34PM  

*oh-oh*


- me creaming myself



chopper

Comments: 31
 		Sep 20 (2005) 06:38PM  

*f-that*

- me finding the price quote. one of these days ill be out of law school. well, ill still be broke paying back my loans.

then, ill make loot. well, not really. getting disbarred for smoking weed isnt very profitable.



cameraz

Comments: 2
 		Oct 10 (2005) 09:41PM  

Cowon better be shippin' deese to da states within da next month or I'm hoppin' on the next plane to South Korea. If I hafta wait too long, I'm gettin' an Archos AV500 instead! (hear that, Cowon?!!!)



enamsung

Comments: 1
 		Oct 27 (2005) 12:54PM  

cowon a2 is already out on Korea market, and you can get them from ebay.com. A2 is far better than istation i2 comparing picture and sound quality because I own both of them. Battery life is much longer too. However, it doesn't have touch screen like istation. I can't complain becuz it has 4inch screen and picture looks much clear. If I-station v43 comes out on market it will be interesting competition, however, we are not sure when it will come out. V43 will be also 4inch screen with touch screen function so picture quality will be lower than cowon I belive.



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