No, the entire faceplte isn’t a screen, and its not a touch screen either, just thought i would get those two most likely wrong assumptions about this player right out of the way. What i can tell you is that the KO RM2300 is pretty much your standard RK27xx based MP4 player, capable of playing high resolution videos at a decent frame rate, good audio quality and supports numerous audio and video format and  it allows for TV out.

What makes this player stand out is its overall design, the sleek look is actually quite impressive, ok so we really don’t know how close a real version of the RM2300 would stack up to these rather nice renderings, chances are that the two will differ quite a bit, but what really catches our eye is the front faceplate.

KO claims that they are using a plasma tinting method used on cars that gives the face plate a mirror look when the player is off or the screen is blank, but when the player is tuened on, the screen and images on it become clearly visable. Now there have been other players that have tried this, such as the Optimus Touch 2nd and the Onda VX888, all have worked to some degree, but the tint always did cause the underlying screen to seem a bit more dim.

KO is claiming the new plasma tinting method does not affect the brightness or clairty of the LTPS screen when its on, their renderings clearly show this, but till someone can actually take a picture of a real RM2300 showing such clarity i think i will take KO’s claim with a bit of salt.

KO Website (enjoy the Chinese rendition of the song “Can’t take my eyes of you”)