Qrio intros G4, G7 portable media players

Qrio (the company, not the robot) recently rolled out a pair of new portable media players for the Korean market, offering some pint-sized viewing with its G4 device and some added gaming capabilities with its G7 unit. Opting for the G4 will give you a 2.4-inch screen with 4GB of storage, along with support for MP3, WMA, and WAV audio, as well as XviD video. The G7, on the other hand, packs a 2.5-inch screen and is available in both 2GB and 4GB versions (in either black or white), with the usual array PMP functions, as well as an added FM radio, e-book capabilities, and, of course, those built-in gaming options. Exactly what sort isn't clear, although we're guessing that, like other similar PMPs, it'll take advantage of some of the many readily (if not legally) available games that now seem to be able to run on just about anything. There doesn't appear to be any word on a price for the G7, but it looks like the G4 will set you back the won equivalent of $116.

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[Nick @ Mar 15th 2007 4:34PM]

That looks too much like the GameBoy Micro for my liking.

[u07ch @ Mar 15th 2007 5:17PM]

:( Got my hopes up that the qrio might live. Everyone disses sony for the PS3 being too expensive but killing qrio was such as mistake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRIO

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/11/sonys_qrio_robots_to_dance_in.html

:(

[Loren @ Mar 15th 2007 11:39PM]

how do i get one?

[MnM333 @ Mar 16th 2007 2:21PM]

yeah I was about to say the g7 looks like someone snapped the bottom part of a black DSLite off.

[wass @ Mar 17th 2007 7:51AM]

Well, the G7 is a rebrand of the Onda vx737 :
http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/2006/09/onda-vx737-gaming-pmp.php

It does NES and SNES emulation as well. Oh, and MP3, OGG, FLAC, WAV, AVI, MPEG4, XviD, DivX, JPG, BMP, and GIF.