CNET got their custody on Cowon ’s new heartbeat - based PMP , the O2 , and they think it ’s one of the year ’s comfortably dedicated media thespian . The 4.3 - inch touchscreen participant has a rightfully ridiculous listing of stick out codecs , an SDHC time slot to expand its internal 8 , 16 , or 32 GB memory , solid ( if not too flashy ) GUI , and a amazingly affordable price : only $ 219 , $ 249 , and $ 299 severally .
It ’ll play every file you throw at it : on the audio front , we ’ve bugger off ( take a deep breath ) MP3 , WMA , AAC , AC3 , FLAC , OGG , Monkey Audio , and a bunch of others I ’ve barely heard of . For video , which is the real hooking of the O2 , we ’ve got AVI , WMV , MP4 , MKV , H.264 , DivX and XviD , and again , manner more . It ’ll toy video up to 1,280×720 resolution at 30 FPS . What does that dictionary of acronyms mean ? No more convert video . Ever .
The GUI looks a little date , awfully like to my aging D2 , but very functional all the same . The O2 has Cowon ’s swash astral healthy calibre , but battery life is n’t all that blistering : 8 hours of video , which is heavy , but only 18 hour of audio , which is below average these days . Still , this looks to be good at the top of the heap of portable video players , if only because it ’ll actually play your videos without make you transcode first . The Cowon O2 expire on sale tomorrow ( the 25th ) in dark or lily-white , lineal from themanufacturer . [ CNET ]
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