DAP Delights for September 30

Today ’s DAP headlines :

move picture are cool . Especially when there ’s a machine playing movies capsulise within them . Confused ? Just take a look at thethis movieon Cowon ’s A2 . Meanwhile , in Taiwan , DAP manufacturing business have woken up to the speech sound of doom machines approaching.iRiver , BenQ and MSIare thresh about suggested retail prices for their flash - based range so as to resist the awesome power that is iPod nano . To wrap up things prior to the approaching weekend , there ’s a squeamish little snipping onAcer ’s upcoming PMP , the PM-500 and some speculation about the supposediAudio U3(to made by Cowon , indeed ) .

The Cowon A2 has been out there for some days by now . In South - Korea , that is . Surely it ’s no coincidence thatthis lengthy videoon the A2 originates from said nation . If you do n’t speak , read or eat Korean , do n’t vex – the concept of moving images intrigues most of us enough by itself . If you ’re concerned in this twist ’s feature set and whatnot , be certain to delay it out .

Mission Impossible 8 Underwater

Apple has done it again : they launch something relatively innovational and as a result of that , the rest of DAP land ’s denizen are move all dazed and mix up right now . Nano ’s affordable fictional character ( given its computer storage medium and capacity ) made iRiver – a fundamental thespian in the diligence – look like a clump of covetous dickhead all of the sudden . you may get a 4 GB nano at the price of a ( feature - ladened , true ) 1 GB iRiver U10 . In Taiwan , pronounce instrumentalist have n’t even been launched yet but the tenseness is distinctly obtrusive . As a caution to nano ’s inescapable successes , iRiver Taiwan will cut ( pre - order ) price by 13 % for the 1 GB U10 . Taiwan - establish BenQ and MSI are bring in similar measures to cope with “ the nano threat”,slashing selling prices by 5 - 30%per ( flash - based ) unit . By the way : one mint of nanos did make it to the formerly - Chinese island last workweek , containing some 100 units … all of which were sold within 15 transactions or so .

Acer has shown its face in the DAP sphere before , but not that often . They mainly seemed to focalize on the low - end part of the market , in both flash- and voiceless drive based class . Well , we can tot another division of computer hardware to the caller ’s collection : Portable Multimedia Players . really , theMP-500is a “ telecasting recording machine ” and “ audio player ” ( MP3 / WMA ) as well . Not too much is bang about it for now , see as how the current information has n’t even been confirmed by Acer itself . We can tell you that it comes with a 3.5 - in TFT screenland , an SD / MMC slot , two speakers and a built - in mike … and that ’s reasonably much it .

Rumors , rumor , rumour … Cowon ’s iAudio U2 has been praised by more than a few reader , over time – chiefly because of its nifty excogitation , impressive sound quality and pleasing “ ease - of - use ” . The supposed heir to U2 ’s throne is just shout and seems to be fitted with a color sieve … Then again , these “ first pictures ” are kind of blurred and vague – so what do we get it on ?

Lesdilley