Seeing that Rob had checked out Viliv on the first day of CeBIT I had not seen their players yet. On the 6th day we revisited them so I could have a look at their hardware too.

I also had my A2 with me so we shot some comparison pics for you guys and gals. The Viliv P1 is a pretty nice player, but it’s really big. The controls are nice – the touch wheel is pretty good and GUI is nice and has very cool sliding effects. All in all it’s a really cool player.

What we are really looking forward to, is the Viliv P2. Sadly we couldn’t play with it yet, because the hardware is not completely finalized. The 4.3 inch colour screen is looking very good and the design has definitely improved over the P1.

We also had a quick look at the N70 which has a huge 7 inch display. It is basically a PMP, but the main use is as a GPS navigation system. We aren’t too fond of these players that have 7 inch screens, because they are not handy at all. Ever since seeing the Archos AV700 we have bee put off the idea of units with such large screens.


Currently the company is searching for a distributor in Europe and we hope that they managed to pull the right contacts at the CeBIT, because it would be a shame not to see their players doing well.