For those of you who are looking for Portable Music Player (PMP), but a little saturated with products from Apple, maybe could look at the latest products from Korean gadget manufacturer, Cowon.
Cowon D3 Plenue is a portable media player to compete with Samsung’s latest Galaxy Player and Apple’s iPod. Plenue D3 is running Google Android 2.1 Eclair in it with a 3.7-inch AMOLED screen makes Plenue D3 is almost like an Android smartphone without the phone features.
COWON D3 Plenue AMOLED screen supports a resolution of 800 × 480 pixels. D3 Plenue claimed to support 1080p HD video playback. However, it is difficult to see the difference between 720p HD and 1080p HD on a 3.7-inch screen.
Audiophiles can truly utilize this Plenue D3 because it supports most popular formats including lossless – FLAC, M4A and Audio format Monkey. Other Audio formats supported are WMA, MP3/2/1, OGG, WAV, ASF FLAC, APE and M4A. To enhance the audio experience, D3 Plenue JetEffect 3.0 comes with a carrying 39 presets, 5 Band Equalizer, BBE + and Special Effects including Stereo Enhance and Reverb.
Screen video playback AMOLED touchscreen and a myriad variety of video formats are supported. Other video formats supported are AVI, WMV, MP4, ASF, MKV, MPG, DAT, TS, TP, TRP and 3GP. Cowon D3 Plenue also supports specific codec such as DivX, Xvid, H.264, WMV and MPEG 9/8/7 1. Of course you can play full 1080p HD movies on this player.
Another feature of the D3 Plenue include Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi (802.11 b / g), T-DMB, a built-in? mic and FM Radio. COWON also added an HDMI port for connecting PMP with HD TV.
COWON D3 is aimed PMP Plenue Audiophiles and comes in storage sizes of 8GB, 16GB and 32GB. This PMP also has a microSD memory slot for further storage expansion. This product seems to be a substitute for the iPod touch in terms of audio and video experience, and will stand head to head with the Galaxy Player at CES 2011.
Pricing and release date officially advanced products are still unknown, but presumably the gadget mania worth saving to get it.