New Cowon MP3/PMP’s

Cowon recently introduced new players for music and movies. I have to say these are the best looking players I have seen. They are sleek yet include so many formats you’ll be amazed!  The cowon includes a new interface which is a huge improvement over the previous versions. The O2 comes with 4.3” touch screen which displays 16.7 million colors. The O2 will include some of the best battery life for a player in it’s category, 18 hours audio and 8 hours video.

This player cannot compete with apple’s iPod Touch simply because if doesn’t have the features. It does include some widgets such as calculator notes etc. The player however is something that you will never need to re-encode any videos or audio for. I won’t list the formats as it would take too long. The player will come in 8,16, 32GB Storage editions. It will be out today in the U.S.

The S9 is cowon’s other new player which is a smaller, sleeker version of the O2 with some goodies. The S9 is a 3.3” media player with an AMOLED capacitive touch screen that is once again 16.7 million colors on a 480 X 272 res screen. This player is quite powerful measuring in at 500MHz Dual core processor. The player includes many gadgets into one, with an FM tuner, Bluetooth, TV tuner, TV-out and G-sensor Accelerometer with 40 hour battery life. That’s impressive! However if video is your thing then this is not the player for you as it only supports it’s screens native resolution, meaning you do still have to re-encode you video for this player. You will be able to find some information on Cowon’s site.