Minkey
03-11-2008, 02:08 PM
Just to show off :p I got one of these recently Cowon Q5W (http://www.cowonglobal.com/product_wide/product_Q5W_feature.php) PMP, I upgraded from my Creative Vision M and man is it sweet.
Pro's
Picture quality - excellent (the screen is quite reflective on bright days but not really distracting)
Audio quality - excellent (probably the best in it's class)
Format supports - very good, unfortunately, for now, no support of VOB or H.264 (although you can simply rename a VOB file to MPEG and it will work on most files, though on some the seek slider doesn't display properly.)
It does flash files, it has a Windows CE O/S so has a version of IE, messenger, a picture and text viewer, FM radio and is WiFi capable.
It a touch panel as well
Very good battery life
You can get a GPS cradle so it can work as a SatNav system.
Oh and it come with an AV cable (and remote control) so you can connect it to a TV and voila a portable digital video/ audio player :D
Con's
It is expensive especially in Europe - manged to get mine at US prices ;)
It is quite heavy but is fully portable (fits in my jacket pocket fine)
Poor audio tag support
It doesn't come with any kind of case but you can get a specialist one.
Windows CE 5.0 O/S - despite the bundled apps there is not a huge amount of alternatives out there - it's a MIPS processor so there will be more released over time (I'm just about to install Quake on mine :cool:)
Pro's
Picture quality - excellent (the screen is quite reflective on bright days but not really distracting)
Audio quality - excellent (probably the best in it's class)
Format supports - very good, unfortunately, for now, no support of VOB or H.264 (although you can simply rename a VOB file to MPEG and it will work on most files, though on some the seek slider doesn't display properly.)
It does flash files, it has a Windows CE O/S so has a version of IE, messenger, a picture and text viewer, FM radio and is WiFi capable.
It a touch panel as well
Very good battery life
You can get a GPS cradle so it can work as a SatNav system.
Oh and it come with an AV cable (and remote control) so you can connect it to a TV and voila a portable digital video/ audio player :D
Con's
It is expensive especially in Europe - manged to get mine at US prices ;)
It is quite heavy but is fully portable (fits in my jacket pocket fine)
Poor audio tag support
It doesn't come with any kind of case but you can get a specialist one.
Windows CE 5.0 O/S - despite the bundled apps there is not a huge amount of alternatives out there - it's a MIPS processor so there will be more released over time (I'm just about to install Quake on mine :cool:)