Sharp's SP700 PMP for edumacated students

In October 2006, Sharp's 4.3-inch SP700 full-screen, touch-sensitive media player was considered quite the looker. Funny how brickley this chunker can appear just one year later at its time of release. Still, those students looking for a decent list of supported codecs -- DivX, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV7/8/9, H.264, OGG, MP3, WAV, and WMA to name a few -- along with a T-DMB television receiver and full suite of electronic dictionaries should still feel a slight tickle to their scholarly fancy. The Windows CE 5.0 device rides atop a 30GB disk and offers SD/MMC expansion and USB Host capabilities for quick, PC-less transfer of data directly to the device. Ready for the price? Yours for ?478,000 sweetheart or about $521 if you're real nice to daddy.

[Via AVING]

[Hans @ Oct 8th 2007 3:32AM]

you mean 2006?

[bratkun @ Oct 8th 2007 3:33AM]

Ummm ¥478,000 or (equals) $521?????? kidding right?

[bratkun @ Oct 8th 2007 3:34AM]

oh my bad... you said won hehe

[Singh @ Oct 8th 2007 4:01AM]

I would go for the Teleglass T4-N instead of the media player. Although it is damn expensive.....u should have a look at it http://www.gadget9.com/2007/10/06/scaler-teleglass-t4-n-video-glasses/

[? @ Oct 8th 2007 5:57AM]

Everything about the spec was great until Windows CE 5.0 was mentioned...

[Mii @ Oct 8th 2007 6:34AM]

Well, when the good japanese GPS and Dictionary software are running on WinCE and you have a choice of developing your own or licensing the software (including those pesky patented features) you sometimes go CE. It's not like Sharp didn't try linux, having made a few generations of Zaurus, until the lack of commercial software made them turn back to CE.