RAmos T9 16GB review and pictures
The RAmos T9 is a very stylish player, with an overall small body size (but with a slightly thick metallic frame), a very nice capacitive touch screen and a beautiful and vibrant, high resolution screen. The T9 does use the RK2712 media chip, this is basically an improved form of the popular RK2706 chipset, capable of playing high resolution videos better than the RK2706 chip could. This chip is needed to take full advantage of the 800×480 resolution screen that the player has.
The T9′s most outstanding attribute is its high quality screen, a user would find it hard to find fault with the screen RAmos choose to use with the player, with colors just jumping out at you at even the most extreme of viewing angles. Not only does the UI look even better with such a screen, but videos and still images look jaw dropping good. However it should be pointed out that although the screen supports a high resolution, the RK2712 chip is not a ‘HD’ chip, unlike the CC1600 media chip or the newer Rockchip RK2806 chip, the RK2712 chip is capable of playing the same videos as the RK2706 but only better.
The RK2712 chip does improve on overall video performance, allowing for videos with even high audio bit rates, which the older RK2706 chip would struggle to play. the RK2712 chip can play with ease. The chip, combined with the capacitive touch screen allows for better interaction with the user interface, something that has been lacking from 4.3″ touch screen MP4 players.
The UI for the most part is similar to that of the S:Flo, where there is dynamic scrolling for files, the dynamic scrolling is different from that of the S:Flo and does take getting used to. There is (at least not with V1.8 firmware) anyway to scroll forward for music or videos using the time bar, it was quite surprising not to see this feature implemented. Fast forwarding on audio and video is done by pressing the FF or RW buttons, which is fine on audio but on video this can be a bit of a pain, however there is video resume function, so this does help. The only place where the capacitive touch screen may seem a bit unresponsive is on the main menu, but i don’t blame this on the hardware, but just with a poorly designed main menu, but then again the main menu letdown shouldn’t be any reason for not considering buying this player.
The eBook reader is very well implemented, with easy scrolling and with most of the screen used to display the text. The image viewing, although simple, does its job and the screen quality makes images really come to life. The player also has your stander built in fm radio, voice recorder, TV out and it also has a type of google earth viewer. It comes with one preloaded aerial imagery and you can load your own images also (not sure how or even what format), but with the google earth type program they have you can pan and zoom on the aerial imagery. Not to sure what the entire point of that function is, it does loose its novelty fast, but it is there. On a last note there is one other annoying feature i found with the player, it has a small motor inside which causes the player to vibrate when ever you interact with the screen, yes i will admit it was fun at first, but it very quickly lost its fun, thankfully this feature can be disabled through the settings.
The RAmos T9 is overall a very stylish player, certainly a player worth considering. Want to see more pictures (including screen comparison to a desktop screen, then check the RAmos T9 product page on our shopping site)
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[...] Worth Reading? We’ve mocked RAmos for their capitalization before, but we wouldn’t dare critique the 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreen their T9 PMP is blessed with. The T9 takes a 24-bit, 16-million color panel, with a 400:1 contrast ratio, and slaps 16GB of storage to it, and the good people at MP4 Nation saw it as their duty to get one in for review. [...]