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iriver P.ple P10 Goes Official

By: Andreas Ødegård on May 20, 2008 5:11 AM

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iriver presented a load of new players at CES this year and now another one of these has become official and available now in Korea. The iriver P.ple P10 is another technological marvel that may or may not ever see light outside of Asia.

The device has a 4" 800x480 touch screen, 33GB 1.3" HDD, flash lite support, internal speaker and TV out. It supports pretty much any video format you can throw at it including Xvid at up to 720x480 (DVD resolution) so the player should do wonders for watching videos. On the music front it does mp3, wma, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Wav and APE so it should be well covered there too. There's also a pro version that features a DMB tuner, but that will definitely not make it to the US or Europe so all we can do is hope that the standard version will.

[iriver via GenerationMP3]

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Comments

FrododorF on May 20, 2008 7:35 AM

* drool* Asia gets all the fun stuff :(

Beeman on May 20, 2008 10:20 AM

wait... wasnt this meant to be a wifi capable device? - why is it a technological marvel again? seems faily run of the mill if you ask me

Lawrence on May 20, 2008 5:24 PM

yeah it seems nice but there's nothing to marvel about.. touch screen has been done, 30gb HDDs have been done (even 30gb flash memory + touch screen has been done.)

it has alot of features that i'd want but there's something about that small disk space that could easily be more impressive if it was flash memory or if it was bigger

Foundation on May 21, 2008 10:50 PM

Wow, so it IS touchscreen? Neato! And the ability to edit contacts and calendar appointments? Sweeto! A PDF viewer? Awesome-o! And what's this....? MS-Office?
http://spec.iriver.co.kr/iriverstore/P10/store_p10_03.jpg

Slipperywhenwet on May 23, 2008 6:04 AM

Wasn't this thing supposed to be out long ago? And wasn't it supposed to be coming out with WIFI and touch controls in the bezel?

Those alone wouldn't be deal-breakers for me, because I do very much love iriver, but with a battery that only lasts 7 hours playing music, and 3.5 hours playing videos, it's no good. Especially when Cowon and Archos are both doing double that.

Sorry iriver, but you guys have to stop screwing around and releasing products that are late, or half-assed.

Konstantin on May 31, 2008 6:52 PM

They're still doing better than Creative is.

Ben on June 4, 2008 4:40 PM

I might buy this- if it comes out in the US.

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