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I waited too long for this thing, I gave up. I went and got something else...

But if comes out with a flavor that has built-in GPS and a 160gig HDD, I'll get it.]]>Nov 29th 2007 6:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/Nov 29th 2007 6:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/Nov 29th 2007 6:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/Nov 29th 2007 6:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://mozilla.org/projects/minimo/]]>Dec 18th 2007 5:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/Nov 29th 2007 6:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/Nov 29th 2007 6:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/Nov 29th 2007 7:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/Dec 18th 2007 5:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/storage space? HDD? SDHC?
No recording input? e.g. from TV etc.
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It'll record .wav input up to 48 kHz, but not video, apparently.]]>Nov 29th 2007 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/Nov 29th 2007 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/Nov 29th 2007 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/Nov 29th 2007 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/Dec 18th 2007 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/Only b?]]>Nov 29th 2007 8:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/Nov 29th 2007 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/
I was looking at the main overview page where it says this:

"What is wireless LAN?
A wireless local area network (in compliance with IEEE 802.11b spec.), linking of two or more devices within close proximity via 2.4GHz radio frequency at a rate up to 11Mbps."

Of course, that just points out my inability to read everything else. Thanks.
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The difference for most people, too, is that N is expensive to implement in their homes because they probably don't have it already. I know I don't, and I won't until it's a) standardized (guess that's another reason not to include it) and b) not as expensive.]]>Nov 30th 2007 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/Nov 29th 2007 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/
But why is it getting increasingly harder these days to get info like storage space? It didn't even list it in the products main page(not that I saw anyway), I had to dig down to the specs page. Features are nice, but in the end, it's a music and video player. How much will it hold? (rhetorical question, I know it's 40/60GB)]]>Nov 29th 2007 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/Nov 29th 2007 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/Nov 30th 2007 12:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/
I have an D2 and I love it! I was thinking of replacing it with a Epson P5000 (storge viewer) as an all rounder Photo storage and media player (as it support divx and mp3). Now that the COWON Q5W is out and that you can connect your camera... well I want one :o)

I've read the Q5W stores and displays Nikon NEF RAW files, does anyone one know if it will work with Canon CR2 RAW format now or in the feature?

Thanks in advance.
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Nikon - NEF D1X, D40, D40X, D50, D70, D70s, D80, E5700
Nikon - TIFF D2Hs, E5700,
Canon - CR2 1DMk2, 5D, 20D, 30D, 350D, 400D
Canon - CRW 10D, 300D, D60
Olympus - ORF E-1, E-300, E-330, E-400, E-410, E-500, SP-550
Pentax - PEF DL, K10D, K100D,
Fuji - RAF S2Pro, S3Pro, S6500,
Konica(Minolta) - MRW 5D, 7D,
Sony - SR2 R1
Sony - ARW A100
Sigma - X3F SD14
Adobe - DNG Fuji S6500, Nikon D200, Nikon D70, Olympus E-330, Olympus E-500, Pentax istD, Pentax K10D, Samsung GX-10, Sony R1 ]]>Dec 3rd 2007 6:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/
Overall, I'm very pleased: it can read several formats (including downloaded YouTube .flv videos, and Nikon D200 NEF)

but... I'm dismayed by their 'cheapness' charging extra for:
- WebBrowser PlugIn
- Vob/DVD videos reader PlugIn
- podcast player PlugIn
- AV out ports
- AV in ports
- USB host ports

These extras put about US$ 200 above the unit US$ 400 retail price.

And, if you live outside US, they charge US$ 1 = 1 Euro for the PlugIns download!!!]]>Dec 3rd 2007 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/Dec 18th 2007 5:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/
Also extra, the AC battery charger.

Charging through the Unit's USB port takes about 24hs to fully charge the batteries

:-(]]>Dec 3rd 2007 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/29/cowon-q5w-goes-on-sale-in-us-shows-off-its-premium-skills/
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(no! I don't have a mac)]]>Dec 18th 2007 5:14AM