We've definitely seen some
questionable designs from
Ramos (and some
straight-up KIRFs as well), but it appears as though the company's latest PMP, the RM970, might have actually been drawn up by someone living in this decade. The 2GB device features a 3-inch, 480 x 272 screen, a 200MHz ARM7 processor backed up by a 200MHz Rockchips DSP, and an iPod-aping split-screen menu system. Those dual 200MHz chips enable some pretty decent format support -- the RM970 supports MP3, WAV, WMA, Ogg, FLAC, AAC, APE, MPEG4, Real and AVI out of the box, and it appears that NES emulation will also be included. Of course, there's no word on price or availability outside of Asia, but here's hoping Ramos keeps its standards this high in the future.
[Via
MP4 Users]
posted Nov 28th 2007 4:34PM
by far the best-looking kirf device ramos has made by far.
i take it back, it deserves respect i can't find anything that it supposedly copies..visually.
There are more pictures of the player and the UI, seems like Pcpop.com got their hands on it and did a full review
http://www.mp4nation.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3861#3861
iPod-aping split-screen menu system?
You guys need to get out more.
M
That's one of the best looking pmp's around. Although I own several iPods, I've never been impressed by their looks. Flame me all you want. But, the iPod and Zune are fugly looking pmp's.
agree. thats why i had to take back my partial burn. i would rock this.
Well, it's apparently playing Corinne Baily Rae's Put Your Records On, but it has a U2 album cover. Questionable, considering the iPod touch used Put Your Records On on its early boxes.
Hmm....
Well, it's apparently playing Corinne Baily Rae's Put Your Records On, but it has a U2 album cover. Questionable, considering the iPod touch used Put Your Records On on its early boxes.
Hmm....
Oops, double post :)
Maybe they accidentally sync'd it with the new Zune software. :)
2GB and PMP in the same sentence?!? WTF?
Now thats format support!!! :)
Kinda funny, "U2 by U2" is a book, not an album.
2gb?! weak.
I do like the ogg and flac support though. Just make it 2tb.
Wow...
the site, MP4user...
Wow...
They obviously have no sense of quality.
To put this into perspective, the GBA has an 8MHz ARM7, and the NDS a 16MHz ARM7 (clocks back down to 8 for GBA mode). That thing has plenty of muscle.
To also put this into perspective, the iPod touch has a (depending on who you believe) either a 444 Mhz ARM processor or a 533 Mhz Arm processor. Not really all that powerful. (Just for reference, the PSP has an enabled clock of 222, capability to do 333.)
i think it looks sweet, but hte lacking capacity makes me angry
2GB is typical for the Chinese market. Heck, so are 1GB and 512K, for that matter. It's a way to keep the price down and since high-bitrate recordings and memory-hogging formats aren't really that popular yet, 2GB is enough. I'm guessing smaller manufacturers also have trouble getting their hands on supplies of larger-capacity memory at a price they can work with. There are lots of interesting designs out there (Oppo, Onda, Teclast) that top out at 2, sometimes 4GB. Meizu is the only Chinese company I'm aware of that regularly offers a player with 8GB and those can be hard to find. In China, the smart money in the long term has to be on cheaper, all-in-one mobile phones...even today, most of the time the earbuds you see all the kids wearing are plugged into a phone, not a PMP or DAP.
The interface is EXACTLY THE SAME with new premium iriver players. tsktsk.
I really like the Visual EQ on the screen, are there any more players who have this?
This looks nice.
But what does it mean, that it "supports AVI"? AVI is simply a video container file format that can contain any type of video (DivX, MPEG, WMV, Sorenson (I think), DV, MP4, etc, etc). "Supports AVI" is nearly a meaningless statement.
But this device does support ogg and flac, so OSS fanboys will love it. ;)
KIRFs?
Koreans I'd Rather F-?
(..."rather" meaning instead of buy a cellphone or other digital product from)
Another of those Chinese 'MP4' wannabes? And it can't even display the right album art? Just like my ZEN Vision:M...