Cowon D2 MP3 Player
The Apple iPod Nano is sure ultra slim, nice to look and hold, and easy to use, but it does not comes with advanced features such as video playback and an FM radio, and the screen is pretty small. Luckily, there’s a handful of worthy alternatives, and now recommends you Cowon D2.
Cowon is a Korean company which is good in making a quality MP3 player. Cowon D2 is a solid and compact player with a 2.5-inch TFT-LCD touchscreen display. It has a nice, high-quality feel to it and offers a beautiful touch screen as well as loads of features, naturally.
The Cowon D2 has a sleek body wrapped in a brushed-metal border, where you can find some controls: a power/hold slider, volume buttons, and a menu key. There are 2 USB ports sit on the left edge, hidden beneath a flap. One standard mini for syncing with the computer and one proprietary for use with the included wallwart power adapter. At 3×2.2×0.6 inches, the player is pleasantly compact overall, though it feels a bit weighty at 2.1 ounces.
This player features 2GB or 4GB of internal memory, a built-in DMB tuner, FM tuner, voice recorder, an SD/MMC card slot, and up to 52-hours (audio) / 10-hours (video) battery life. Besides, it supports multiple audio codecs, including MP3, WMA, OGG, MPEG-4, WMV9, and FLAC.
Music playback options include shuffle and repeat modes, six EQ presets as well as a user-defined mode, and BBE sound effects (Mach3Bass, 3D Surround, and Stereo Enhance).
It’s a simple job to get started with the Cowon D2 on Windows XP and the player also works with previous Windows versions back to 98, as well as Mac and Linux operating systems.
Simply connect the player to computer using the USB cable and from here, you can start to transfer your content, via drag and drop in Windows Explorer or Using Windows Media Player.
Cowon comes with a software CD that includes JetShell for transferring files and JetAudio for media playback and conversion. COWON’s JetAudio VX software is used to create high-compression files for quality playback on COWON D2. Jetshell is capable of playing and managing of various multimedia allowing seamless integration of multimedia library.
You can also view photos and videos on the device. It supports WMV and AVI natively, and the aforementioned JetShell can help you with other formats, such as DiVX. There’s also voice and line-in recording, as well as an FM tuner with autoscan and a seemingly limitless number of preset slots.
With a built-in clock/alarm function, you can schedule play/recording of FM radio. The built-in microphone optimized for voice recording can be used to easily record meetings and lectures.
Line-in recording capability allows recording of sound output from CDP, MD, TV and other playback devices.
Cowon D2 MP3 player comes with 2 color, white and black. But the white is only offered in 4GB, whereas the black comes in either 2GB or 4GB.
Reviews from CNET.com:
The good: The Cowon D2 MP3 player offers a sleek and compact design dominated by a lovely, touch-sensitive screen. The deviceis packed with almost every feature in the book, including video playback, voice recording, and an FM tuner. The D2 comes with a handy stylus/kickstand, and the sound quality is great.
The bad: The Cowon D2 is pricier than similarly featured MP3 players, and it’s a bit heavy. The touch interface won’t appeal to all users, specifically active ones.
The bottom line: If you can get on board with the Cowon D2’s PDA-like touch-screen interface, the reward is great-sounding audio, a smorgasbord of features, and a fantastic battery life.
For Cowon D2’s specifications, please read here
Written by martin on March 12th, 2007 with
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