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For those who breathe Portable Multimedia: SK's C&C Air
comment: 19 | Thursday, November 10 (2005) 07:59AM | Posted by Robert Sinke
Wanted to post a little blurb on this yesterday, but couldn't find decent pictures at that moment - so here's PMPinside to help us out. Below this stupid text you can gaze the miracle that is SK's "C&C Air". Mind you, that second "C" is supposed to be spelled backwardly, but I can't memorize the ASCII-code for it right now.

Anyway, what does this thing have to offer? It's another PMP, for one. Bears a strong resemblance to the i-Station v.43 at first sight. Controls look a bit more plasticy somehow.


The Command & Conquer Air Missile 2000 plays MP1/MP2/MP4, DivX/XviD, WMV7/8/9, comes with DMB/GPS support and USB-OTG. There's an AMD Alchemy AU1200 processor in there, the screen has an aspect ratio of 16:9 and the battery seems to be removable. Capacity? Probably 20 & 30GB - throw another one of these things on the pile.

LINK (via Akihabara)

Thanks, debilio
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debilio

Comments: 192
 		Nov 10 (2005) 08:09AM  

Me likes the the clean look (minus logo).



debilio

Comments: 192
 		Nov 10 (2005) 08:25AM  

Noticed on the last pics of the review that CC stands for Communication Code and that the last 'C' there isn't written backwards.

I'm wondering if it would have some PDA-functions since it has a stylus and touchscreen.



ralphb

Comments: 154
 		Nov 10 (2005) 09:29AM  

Let's try:
⊂&⊃

should give:
⊂&⊃



ralphb

Comments: 154
 		Nov 10 (2005) 09:29AM  

Hey, it worked!



rumos

Comments: 74
 		Nov 10 (2005) 09:35AM  

this looks exactly like the iStation V43. every part of it.



ralphb

Comments: 154
 		Nov 10 (2005) 09:41AM  

Yeah, except the iStation is a LOT bigger:


Robert Sinke

Comments: 1221
 		Nov 10 (2005) 09:53AM  

kudos, ralphb. And yeah... I don't understand this one either. This is the V.43, right? Maybe just a rebrand.



Martinp

Comments: 299
 		Nov 10 (2005) 11:16AM  

You sure it's a 4:3 aspect ratio? It looks more like 16:9 to me ...



Robert Sinke

Comments: 1221
 		Nov 10 (2005) 12:46PM  

the picture says 4:3



TyX

Comments: 1
 		Nov 10 (2005) 02:35PM  

it says 4.3, as in 4.3 inches for the screen size



uhaulball

Comments: 4
 		Nov 10 (2005) 02:42PM  

beat me to it ^



uhaulball

Comments: 4
 		Nov 10 (2005) 02:43PM  

this looks to be entirely a v43 knockoff, spec by spec.



jeff

Comments: 119
 		Nov 10 (2005) 05:48PM  

It's OEM work by Digital Cube/iStation but just to be totally positive, i've emailed them for confirmation.



Allen
Location: Dub Vee Ooo
Comments: 1511
 		Nov 10 (2005) 06:19PM  

Ahhhhhhh dont mention c&c... the way westwood was bought by ea was the worse day of my life...(yes Im being overdramatic... and the death of Rio was also pretty tramatic..) I looked at this and thought iStation V43 instantly



khbaur330162

Comments: 52
 		Nov 10 (2005) 08:46PM  

body's almost exactly the same except for that little hump at the controller section. V43 does have that. The reset button, little proprietary, stylus, USB/Charging ports, the little vents on the side, everything is right where it is on the V43. Same processor, this is the same thing. Definite rebrand. I wonder why Digital Cube would sell the rights (or w/e) of the V43 to anyone. Maybe they thought they wouldn't be able to sustain an American market under their name? Like Toyota creating Lexus and Scion for consumer aiming techniques. It isn't like DC made SK up or anything, but maybe they figure they could make more money earning a percentage of the profit with another company doing the work. (i.e. English customer service, American headquarter....) I won't lie, I don't know much about this company, but there has to be some advantage over them selling the i-Station line themselves.



Galls

Comments: 13
 		Nov 10 (2005) 09:36PM  

just scroll through the pictures

This is the Istation V43

[Linky]



bloodycape

Comments: 705
 		Nov 11 (2005) 01:58AM  

Wasn't the Istation2 also rebanded? When will this be out in the states?



rumos

Comments: 74
 		Nov 11 (2005) 05:55AM  

ok so lets make it clear that this is actually the iStation V43.
which seems to be a fingerprint magnet by the way, judging by the pictures on the link provided by Galls.



Intelli

Comments: 125
 		Nov 11 (2005) 06:48AM  

The way these companys work they don't move in to the markets themselves. They always rely on resellers to do the advertising etc in other countries. Often that means rebranding, sometimes it dosn't.

That's a big problem really, because in order to compete properly they need to do it themselfes... because now, Digital Cube + C&C + Reseller wants profit. Oterwise, just Digital Cube + Reseller.



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