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COWON Introduces Premium PMP 'COWON Q5' |
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2007.04.30 |
Digital device and content company, COWON SYSTEMS, Inc. (CEO Park Namkyu www.cowon.com) announced that it would launch the premium PDP model 'COWON Q5', featuring an ultra high quality 5-inch widescreen with 16 million colors that includes an encyclopedia and navigation features on May 14th.
The Premium PMP 'COWON Q5' has an ultra high quality 5-inch LCD for the first time in Korea, and it is a next generation convergence PMP that not only can play movie clips and music but also has features including navigation with an embedded Mando Mappy MXG, terrestrial DMB, and external wireless LAN support functions.
The unit features a simple yet luxurious black metal body and has a wing click GUI to remove buttons from the front side. Built with user convenience in mind, its compact design is outlined with a slim wrap around the screen.
The COWON Q5 runs the WinCE 5.0 Professional OS powered by the Alchemy 500Mhz CPU from AMD, and is not only capable of being a highly sensitive DMB receiver, but is also capable of playing various files with video format support that includes AVI (Xvid), ASF, WMV 7/8/9 and MPG, along with audio format support for MP3, OGG, WMA, WAV, ASF, and FLAC (a lossless compression codec). Moreover, it supports popular image file formats such as JPG, BMP, PNG and more. Through strong earphone output at 68mW, people can experience COWON's uniquely subtle and strong Jet effects including BBE, Mach3Bass, MP Enhance, 3D Surround, Bass, and Treble, as well as listening with the external 2 watt stereo speaker.
As the COWON Q5 Navigation Package has added a navigation cradle with a highly sensitive GPS receiving module, and the premiere Korean high resolution mapping solution, Mando Mappy MXG, users can easily and accurately navigate with strong and convenient navigation features.
For the first time in the PMP industry, the COWON Q5 has included the Encyclopedia Britannica, oft referred to as the global knowledge standard, to allow users to easily search useful information. It also includes an e-dictionary combining YBM Sisa's e4u English to Korean and Korean to English dictionary, Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, and a Korean language dictionary. Moreover, users can utilize various educational and entertainment contents through various educational websites including Megastudy and music websites such as Melon and Lunch box.
The COWON Q5 has strengthened additional features with support for ManView that enables image viewing without extracting compressed files and ChekView, a text viewer, that facilitates viewing Word and Excel documents for presentations with the WinCE based Office Viewer. Besides the wired/wireless remote control, head set, TV output, DMB recording and USB host support, it also includes basic functions such as voice recording, FM radio and more. With its UCI (User Created Interface), users can decorate it with personalized GUIs to express themselves directly through the device.
The COWON Q5 will be available in two HDD capacity variations, 40GB and 60GB. Its internal battery is capable of up to 13 hours of audio playback and 7 hours of continuous video or terrestrial DMB playback.
As the COWON Q5 is scheduled to support various USB based communication services, it is expected to lead the market as the premium PMP indeed |
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