It’s been milling around in rumour since October but CES has brought the Cowon W2 UMPC/MID out of the woodwork.
It has a 4.8 inch screen that runs at 1024 x 600 and runs on a 1.33GHz Intel Atom CPU.
Its chip isn’t specified but initial thoughts lean toward the possibility of the Z520 (Silverthorne).
Also onboard is [...]

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Cowon looks to be releasing another media player in January, this pretty slick looking player looks to run on WinCE 6.0, some may cringe at hearing WinCE, but its more than common for Korean media players to run on some sort of modififed version of WinCE.

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Our European friends Le Journal du Geek have knocked out a thorough evaluation of the hotly tipped Cowon iAudio 9.
It turns out slick looking 2″ screened player has great audio and video quality but isn’t quite as easy to use as it should be.
The packaging can be re-used as a flower pot(!), the ergonimic problems [...]

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The previous blurry render of the Cowon E2 that looked more like bottle openers than an MP3 player have been replaced with a set of nice, detailed images of the actual player.
It measures 26.6 x 64.2 x 7.7 mm, weighs 16.6g, comes in 2GB and 4GB models and plays MP3, WMA, FLAC, WAV, OGG.
The 2GB [...]

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Looking suitably slick and delightfully accurate to the renders (here) is the Cowon iAudio9.
Judging by these first pics is certainly looks the part and seems to sport a really nice interface.
It has a 2 inch screen and measures 42 x 95 x 8.9mm, comes out in a few weeks and the 16GB model will cost [...]

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The Cowon D2 PMP has had a facelift and an upgrade for the new D2+.
The 2.5 inch touchscreen player now comes with a ‘crystal shell’ casing and audio quality has been bumped up.
It has a dual 37mW headphone power output and now sports upgraded BBE + audio with Mach3Bass, 3D Surround, MP Enhance and other [...]

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The Cowon MP3 player that fuses a Shuffle with a USB stick has finally been revealed in all its 8 colours.
It measures 26.6 x 64.2 x 7.7 mm and weighs 16.6g.
It comes in 2GB and 4GB models and plays MP3, WMA, FLAC, WAV, OGG.
The first place it will hit the streets is Russia so unless [...]

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Next in Cowon’s popular iAudio MP3 player series is the iAudio9.
The motif for this model is the slim nature of its build (8.9mm).
There’s a 2 inch screen which has also offered limited video playback (AVI, WMV, Xvi and ASF).
On the audio front theres the JetEffect 3.0 (+BBE) system which plays back MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, [...]

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Cowon, the Korean PMP manufacturer, have turned up the heat with 3 new MP4 player models to be released soon
Cowon had massive critical acclaim for their D2 mp4 player, but its looking a little long in the tooth now, and it seems Cowon agree, just take a look at this beauty :

Now this baby sports [...]

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