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Cowon S9 1.1 Firmware Released (KR)
comment: 13 | Monday, March 30 (2009) 08:48PM | Posted by Design Fabulous


As I have posted before, Cowon had released the 1.1 beta firmware. Today, the final version of the firmware has been released. Here is a list of fixes and additions:

- addition of a subtitle sync & other buttons in video playback
- DviX3 codec support.
- sliding animation when changing music tracks
- pitch correction feature
- increased high quality video playback from 6hr to 10.5hr
- modifications to the widgets screen
- enhanced color reproduction in photo viewer
- modified calculator UI
- minor fixes to DRM support and dictionary

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n1n9tean

Comments: 26
 		Mar 30 (2009) 09:48PM  

Sounds like a significant upgrade. I've never seen a firmware upgrade increase battery life. I don't have the S9 but I'm interested. I judge all MP3 players against Walkmans now. SO, how does this sound in comparison to the Walkman line?



Michael
Location: New York City
Comments: 2786
 		Mar 30 (2009) 10:26PM  

Excellent. I've gotten word that Samsung is also planning another FW for the P3 soon. The Firmware wars continue!



Design Fabulous

Comments: 1038
 		Mar 31 (2009) 01:31AM  

I've played around with this firmware a bit more and it seems that Cowon has also modified the cover flow view. The albums load up much more quickly but it's still not as nice as the one on the iPod touch. I hope Cowon will completely revamp it, or maybe someone will make a theme that works smoothly. Nevertheless, I love my S9!
[ edited Mar 31 (2009) 01:31AM ]



undesign

Comments: 786
 		Mar 31 (2009) 03:09AM  

Am I the only one that uses a list, not coverflow or some coverflow knockoff to view songs?



Sebhelyesfarku

Comments: 398
 		Mar 31 (2009) 10:51AM  

No gapless playback? P. o. s.



Dominic
Location: Ireland.
Comments: 2396
 		Mar 31 (2009) 11:08AM  

No, it's a paperweight, not a POS



aliquis

Comments: 48
 		Mar 31 (2009) 11:51AM  

And still no O2 updates? Or is it just that people don't care very much?

If only it had the memory card slot .. May get a 32 GB one anyway..



yaroukh

Comments: 26
 		Mar 31 (2009) 12:44PM  

Sony, are you watching?



Pondlife

Comments: 507
 		Mar 31 (2009) 01:31PM  

Unlikely we'll see firmware updates from them



alcalde

Comments: 113
 		Mar 31 (2009) 08:27PM  

I bring you news from my Fortress of Samsungitude.
In the next round of one-up-manship, the newest release of P3 firmware will rename the product to the S10! Take THAT! And to counter the DivX3 support (?!?), Samsung will add Cinepack and Intel Indeo codec support and release drivers for BeOS, NextStep and the Atari ST's TOS operating system.





alcalde

Comments: 113
 		Mar 31 (2009) 08:35PM  

Undesign, if coverflow is that function in the Apple commercials where you have to flick your finger across the screen to slowly flip through each album cover, then no, you're not the only one.

I must confess I spent some time and a lot of effort trying out open source cover art programs 'til I found a useable one and finally got all my music folders set up with cover art 'cause I thought I was missing out on something. Finally, cover art-equipped, I loaded up my Creative Zen, set it to browse by album cover, then... after 15 seconds couldn't figure out why anyone would want to do that. Searching by album title is so much easier, especially as you can jump to the first letter pretty easily with the Zen. And you don't have to worry about things like podcasts/Zencasts that don't have a cover image. When I capture people like DesignFabulous and Zip3 and... now you ... and bring them to the Fortress of Samsungitude to help me design my own homebrew DAP, the Zii3, coverflow is definitely NOT going to be on the feature list.



PowerTorsk
Location: Norway
Comments: 38
 		Apr 02 (2009) 03:02PM  

Just installed this. The fact that you're now able to use your own wallpaper makes it all worth it. It looks completely awesome on the screen...

And that widget screen is, as opposed to what others earlier suggested, usefull. It sort of brings all the things you actually use to one place, and let's you control them without actually opening their screens. However, it does have it's flaws. One would expect that double tapping on the music controlling widget would bring up the music screen, but it doesn't. This perticularly makes the photo-mini-slideshow widget useless, as you can't bring up the photo you want to full-screen.

I hope this issue will be adressed.



Rave_Zero

Comments: 2
 		Apr 04 (2009) 02:59PM  

I'm curious if Cowon will ever implement a song-rating feature to any of their players in the future.
This shouldn't be hard to implement with a firmware upgrade.



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