Cowon iAudio N2 - PMP GPS DMB With Windows CE Running on AMD

By: Grahm Skee on October 1, 2006 5:46 PM

The Cowon iAudio N2 is a series piece of hardware packed with a ton of features and is far from your typical portable media player. First off the N2 runs Windows CE 5.0 on an AMD Alchemy 500MHz processor with 128MB of ram. The screen is a 7” WQVGA (480x234) LCD touch screen which will come in handy when operating the GPS navigation system. The player also supports DMB which is basically over the air digital television, for all you DMB deprived Americans that don’t know. Not to leave out the shutter bugs, the N2 comes equipped with two SD memory slots and a USB host port for connecting cameras or other USB based media.

And yes, it will play your digital media like MP3, OGG, WMA, WMV, DivX, AVI, XviD, JPEG, MPEG… ect… ect. Just like Cowon’s A2, it supports nearly all of the major media types.

I doubt this will ever make it to the shores of the US due to the incorporation of DMB and the cost of localizing the N2 to a low demand US market.

[Cowon] thanks Noam

Comments

DLF on October 23, 2006 5:49 PM

Google Translate does nothing for Cowon's Korean product pages because most info is embedded in graphics, but has anybody seen the exterior dimensions of this thing? The only other 7" widescreen PMP I know of is the Archos AV700, and it's titanic in size (8.2" long?!?). If Cowon has managed to make this mostly screen (say, 7"x4.3"x0.7"), then I'd really be interested in a (non-DMB) version with U.S./Canada maps. It's the only device with dual SD slots since my Tapwave Zodiac w/Palm OS5.

о on August 29, 2007 8:24 PM

Very good site. Thank you!

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