Hopefully those who get a kick out of unboxings will enjoy this post. In recent years Cowon have been getting more and more economical with their packaging solutions, much in the same way Apple inc. have reduced their packaging requirements to the bare minimum. Cowon have gone from butt ugly cardboard boxes, to horrible vacuum packs, to mildly attractive cardboard boxes and now to this elegant, well thought out clear plastic shell.

I was as surprised as anyone when I received this wonderfully presented i9 in the post, I just don't think of Cowon and pretty in the same sentence. I'm old school though, and to me Cowon represent the geek's favourite tech - so I always forgave their lacklustre packaging, but it seems we are moving on to a new era in techgeekness, and that's damn cool.

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Cowon iAudio 9 Unboxing:






































And that's it. You get very little extra bits and bobs with the i9 with the end result being a compact, neat little package. The USB cable is used for both transferring files between the i9 and your computer, and charging the device.

I really haven't had the time to use the i9 yet but feel free to ask whatever questions you want and I'll get to them when I can.