Odd-i's skinny N700D 7-inch DMB unit

That's it, we're moving to Korea. Sure, we've made this idle threat before, but with all these crazy 7-inch DMB players popping up every few days, we're just not sure how much longer we can take it. Yeah, we don't really watch much TV here in the States, and we can't imagine Korean TV is much more entertaining, but it's just the mere principle of the thing. Today's offering is the Odd-i N700D, which strikes a pretty dashing figure, and does the whole DMB/PMP/GPS thing like normal. Like the similarly specced Viliv N.70, the N700D doesn't have any included storage, and instead works off of SD cards and external USB drives. The codec support is pretty good (MPEG-1/4, XviD, DivX, WMV7-9), but full resolution and/or frame rate isn't supported on the WMV codecs. For the other codecs, the PMP supports up to 720 x 480 resolution, but we're not quite sure that the actual display is 720 x 480. If we had to guess we'd say it shares the 480 x 234 resolution of the Viliv. The device also supports FM, a rear camera add-on, and the expertly crash-inducing picture-in-picture function to allow you to watch a video and your GPS map simultaneously. With driver distractions of this magnitude, perhaps we'll rethink our move -- but if these things start going to HD resolutions we're gone.

[Via dapreview]

[Jacob @ Jun 17th 2006 3:55PM]

ohhh, thats nice!!!

[mastershake916 @ Jun 17th 2006 10:28PM]

How could you remove the dog brain quake-3?
It was soO0 real.

[Jodi @ Jun 18th 2006 12:14AM]

I'm living in Korea now and telling you - the television here is hilarious. The distraced drivers are not...

[Andy @ Jun 18th 2006 1:00AM]

Wait a minute. Did the post about the dog brain and Quake 3 Arena get removed? I wanted to show that to my pop (for Father's Day, of course)

[teo @ Jun 19th 2006 11:05AM]

you can't read korean on a review site, but you're willing to move there just for neat technology that will be effectively incomprehensible since you haven't endeavored to learn the language for your current job?

[Alan @ Jun 20th 2006 5:50AM]

Actually, Korean TV is really good. They have sitcoms there which are really addictive, maybe because of the expressiveness, and you can follow the plot even if you don't understand a word of it. Korean sitcoms (with dubbing) are widely popular in the Far East.