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Cowon D2 Now Official
comment: 24 | Tuesday, November 21 (2006) 04:22PM | Posted by Michael
Cowon has been sleeping for most of the year, but lately they've woken up and have announced a couple of new players including the iAudio F2, Cowon D1, and the D2. The Cowon D2 is similar to the aforementioned i-Station mini, not only in features, but also in appearance (color-wise at least). Here's what this player's got to offer against the Mini:

  • 2.5 inch LCD (320 x 240)
  • 1-4GB
  • Playback 45 hours (MP3), DMB 8 hours.
  • Built-in DMB (For Korean market)
  • SD Card slot for SD&MMC
  • Supports various files WMV9, MPEG4 (Movie), MP3, Ogg, WMA, FLAC (Music)
  • 94mW output (47mW+47mw)
  • 30 frame QVGA movie playback and TV-Out support
  • Touch interface by transparent overlay GUI.
  • FM Radio, Radio record, Voice/Line-in Record

45 hours of battery life is definitely an attractive number. Korea will get first dibs on this player later this month, and hopefully Cowon will have plans to release a DMB-less version to us drooling folks here in N. America and other places around the world.

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Thanks, Harel
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Allen
Location: Dub Vee Ooo
Comments: 1511
 		Nov 21 (2006) 04:49PM  

a 1, 2 or 4GB hard disk,
is what the folks over at akihabaranews had to say... I thought it was flash, (should be a 30 gig drive )



Barron

Comments: 44
 		Nov 21 (2006) 05:23PM  

That is proberly just a mistake, There is no way they would put a 1gb hardrive in there that wouldnt make sense. Any news on whether this can take 8gb sd cards
[ edited Nov 21 (2006) 05:24PM ]



hobo

Comments: 80
 		Nov 21 (2006) 05:35PM  

I swear that this thing is flash memory. HDD is just crazy. But it could be the 0.85 inch HDDs that they used in the iaudio 6.

I'm confused

Wait. Yeh they wouldn't out a 1GB HDD in there. Thats even crazier



Dominic
Location: Ireland.
Comments: 2405
 		Nov 21 (2006) 06:00PM  

crazier and more expensive than flash.



dap_pad

Comments: 519
 		Nov 21 (2006) 06:28PM  

Great battery life... one of the few flash DAP with TV-out too...



timmins

Comments: 270
 		Nov 21 (2006) 06:45PM  

give me 8 GIG sd compatibiity and I'm sold.



Design Fabulous

Comments: 1038
 		Nov 21 (2006) 06:53PM  

I love the looks of this thing! The internal DMB antena is so nice and it is filled with features. I would replace my U10 with this when I have the chance, looks nice.

I wish it would come in 8GB... I guess the SD expansion bay can forgive that.



Hyper_Noodle

Comments: 226
 		Nov 21 (2006) 07:00PM  

I actually kinda don't like the design. Unless it's got a slick GUI, I'm not really sold on it yet.



undesign

Comments: 801
 		Nov 21 (2006) 07:09PM  

does it playback divx/xvid?



timmins

Comments: 270
 		Nov 21 (2006) 07:53PM  

@undesign. consider ind this: [Linky]
I'm pretty confident that it'd be at least divx compatible.



hartofalyon

Comments: 2
 		Nov 21 (2006) 08:38PM  

this thing plastic?



Dominic
Location: Ireland.
Comments: 2405
 		Nov 22 (2006) 06:25AM  

can you get 8gb sd cards?


or is it only the SDHC format that supports it?



nocomp

Comments: 78
 		Nov 22 (2006) 08:20AM  

The new SDHC-Standard and the older SD-Standard are not compatible to each other.

As far as I know, devices are only able to support:

1) older SD-Cards with capacities up to 4GB (no SDHC-Support)
OR
2) older SD-Cards with capacities up to 2GB AND SDHC-Cards with capacities up to 8GB (Class 2 & Class 6)

For example:
My new Digital Camera (Panasonic LX2) accepts all older SD-Cards up to 2GB. But my old 4GB SD-Card doesn't work anymore. I'll have to buy a SDHC-Card for capacities beyond 2GB. Grrrrr!!! Curse the industry!!!

BTW: COWON seems to be on the right track again - now release the same device with a 3,5" screen and 60GB HDD and I'm a Cowon-Customer (again)!!!



Ricardo Dawkins

Comments: 381
 		Nov 22 (2006) 09:42AM  

^^ but made it something like 300 dollar anything more I'll keep eyeing the Zune



Dominic
Location: Ireland.
Comments: 2405
 		Nov 22 (2006) 09:45AM  

nocomp wrote ...
The new SDHC-Standard and the older SD-Standard are not compatible to each other.


I know, which is why i mentioned SDHC



tineg

Comments: 3
 		Nov 22 (2006) 12:16PM  

in the iAudiophile forum, the D2 discussion board is listed under "flash players". Maybe they know something we don't!



Dominic
Location: Ireland.
Comments: 2405
 		Nov 22 (2006) 12:48PM  

iaudiophile is part of the DAPreview webring, what we know is the the D2 is a flash player.



tineg

Comments: 3
 		Nov 22 (2006) 03:54PM  

ya, I know...I was responding the speculation in the earliest posts in this thread.



Dominic
Location: Ireland.
Comments: 2405
 		Nov 22 (2006) 05:28PM  

if you knew then you should know that iaudiophile wouldn't know anything we dont as they are in essence us



Gene
Location: Sydney
Comments: 26
 		Nov 23 (2006) 02:59AM  

this is sth. deserves my thumb upped...

however the capacity is disappointing...

the logo is ugly.......



Design Fabulous

Comments: 1038
 		Nov 23 (2006) 08:42PM  

^ What's so ugly about the logo? And it is better than the many 512mb/ 1GB / 2GB generic crap out there.



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Pondlife
latest=lasted

Pondlife
Given it's lousy battery life video would've latest seconds anyway

Step666
The S10 was pretty ridiculously tiny, so it makes sense it didn't do video.

Ricardo Dawkins
will DAPreview start doing some "reviews" for this new breed of Android PMPs or what ?

Ricardo Dawkins
Archos 43 looks pretty good with that Froyo...but where is my Samsung Galaxy PMP...

bloodycape
I guess I was mistaken. Maybe I was thinking about the L-Payer. Hmmmm.

zip22
i can't find anything saying the s10 can playback video. the s10 couldn't even to jpg.

bloodycape
True, but they still put it as a novelty. Hell, the iRiver S10 was able to play back video if I am not mistaken.

Interesting enough the new iPod does support photo viewing, and even slideshow support.

Step666
@Pondy: I'd pay through the nose for it if it ticked all the boxes.

@bc: I don''t care about video, I'm after a DAP.
And on a screen that small, I don't see the point.

bloodycape
If Cowon or Sony made it best believe it will do video, and battery life more than 24 hours, with very good sound quality, and in the case of Cowon-codecs galore.


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