Minkey
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Just to show off I got one of these recently Cowon Q5W 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
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 )
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
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 )