Cowon D2 PMP Coming Soon

Cowon

By: Jenn K. Lee on October 28, 2006 7:44 PM

South Koreans celebrate Harvest Festival Day a few months before Americans baste turkeys for Thankgiving, the holiday's U.S. equivalent. But that won't stop our Asian friends from giving thanks for Cowon's new D2 portable media player, which is scheduled to be released in Korea in mid-November for an unknown amount of SKW.

The D2 has a 2.5-inch LCD (320 x 240) that shows off 16 million colors when playing back WMV9/MPEG4 movies, MP3/WMA/Ogg/FLAC tracks, and whatever's on the DMB tube. The 2GB PMP also features an SD/MMC expansion card slot, FM radio and recorder, TV-Out, line-in recording, and touchscreen interface.

Cross your fingers for the D2 (sans DMB tuner) to make it to the States in time for Christmas.

[CDPkorea via dapreview]

Comments

Utew on October 28, 2006 11:59 PM

I like this player a lot, from what I've read/seen.. and 45 hrs of audio playback is phenomenal. But it needs a bump in capacity. Make this HD based with 30G or more, or flash memory to the tune of 8 to 12G and it becomes a very desirable unit. Video here... http://www.mncast.com/mainFrame.asp?mainSubMenu=%2Fsearch%2FsearchResult.asp&stSearchType=1&stSearch=cowon

Nice competition for the iRiver Clix...

EnzoTen on October 29, 2006 12:16 AM

Awesome, thanks for the vid.

RockinAmigo14 on October 29, 2006 12:35 AM

like Utew said, make this an HD player or higher capacity flash, and i'm sold.

roger on October 29, 2006 6:56 AM

Hopefully the Cowon A3 is the same as this Player but with a Harddrive and 4inch screen.

PS. what kind of material is the screen made of ?

James Biehl on October 29, 2006 9:32 PM

ummm... yeah, 2GB???? try 30 - 60.

dfkt on October 30, 2006 10:15 AM

It's 4GB.

Very nice, Cowon is catching up again...

dfkt on October 30, 2006 10:24 AM

Sorry, 4GB still has to be confirmed: http://iaudiophile.net/comment.php?comment.news.249

lol on October 30, 2006 11:05 AM

LOL, that desing is perfect, I LOVE IT> i wanna have one!!!!

Christmas Pete on November 5, 2006 12:45 AM

What's up with the blue screen and white icons? If it didn't look so dated, I would consider it over the Clix, or if it came with larger capacity.

Go On Cowon on November 13, 2006 4:02 PM

This is a little and very portable PMP! you you got a 30gb harddrive it will be as big as A2, some people doesn't want to buy PMP that's so big. And D2 has a flashmemory, the most flashmemory is from 128mbit to highest 8gb. i think 4 gb is good and with a extra slot with memorycard "SD"

Ken on November 23, 2006 1:32 AM

I'm pretty sure this is not a flash player... i'm looking at the asia cnet and it's a hard drive player... but if nebody knows anything else about it please tell [= i really wanna get one

JK on November 28, 2006 2:30 AM

It's very nice product.

LCD, battery, avaiable extended memory good!

Austin on December 10, 2006 6:16 PM

Hey does anyone know if this would be released in the united states before christmas? If not, do you think it would be out before febuary?thanks

p.s. and does anyone know how much this would cost?

New year Dan on January 5, 2007 11:41 PM

It's also in black-nice and slick~~

It's thinner thatn I thought,

There's also a slot for SD's and MMC's

so I think the memory won't be a problem~

Mr.Sir on January 15, 2007 3:24 PM

I think that 4GB is just fine especialy with SD cards for expansion. I realy wonder how the screen is finished... the only thing Ill give the iphone is that it has a very good touch-screen.

Dario on February 18, 2007 8:11 AM

does the player suport all sd-cards from 1gb-8gb-.... or is there a limit

fu on March 11, 2007 10:10 PM

ummm yeah...you are an idiot. Try EXPANDABLE memory loser. This thing will be able to accept 32 g sd cards

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