WithView's HM-U500 do-it-all handles DMB, makes Americans envious

Yeah, we Americans have some pretty fancy toys to play with, but we still can't help but feel a touch slighted each time one of these beauties emerges from South Korea. WithView's HM-U500 sports a whole lot of screen and not much bezel, an ultrathin design and a 4.3-inch 480 x 272 resolution panel. Reportedly, the unit is available in 4GB and 8GB iterations and features an SD expansion slot, built-in camera, a kickstand, headphone jack, a T-DMB tuner, e-dictionary, and support for MP3, WMV, OGG, JPG, BMP, PNG and AVI file formats. No word on a price or anything, but for the US crowd who can't just hop on the next flight to Seoul to pick one up, we're probably better off not knowing.

[Via TheGadgetSite]

[Superfresh Posted Jan 29th 2008 3:59PM]

Looks ready for the shelves at Target.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 29th 2008 4:08PM]

LMAO

[E71 Posted Jan 29th 2008 5:56PM]

Archos 605 Wifi 160GB is better anyway, TV tuner or no TV tuner.

If this had the same capacity as the 605 Wifi and could play 720p x264/AC3 MKVs, *THEN* I'd be envious.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 29th 2008 9:50PM]

yeah but not even the 605 could play 720p mkv, heck they don't even support mkv afaik

[Chris8pie Posted Jan 29th 2008 4:03PM]

Thats a pretty big screen for that resolution

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 29th 2008 4:08PM]

Lovely!!! Any chance this will ever make it to the Americas?

[anonymouspimp Posted Jan 29th 2008 4:08PM]

I wish some of these companies would start selling in the US. We NEED more competition over here. I wonder if these Korean (and Chinese) companies are just waiting for the iPod hysteria to die down even more? or are they not even wanting to try?

I see so many devices over there that I would love to get my hands on.

[anonymouspimp Posted Jan 29th 2008 4:15PM]

What about the description makes you think its a piece of shit? Admittedly if you watch movies on your PMP, this probably isn't for you... I mean, sure the resolution could be better, but you'd probably also want something with a bigger drive for videos... but you better believe its going to be priced accordingly.

It seems to support a nice list of audio codecs, and if the camera is at least as good as a camera phone, it will be fun to have available. It actually has features that I wish my Archos 605 had (which I love).

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 29th 2008 4:33PM]

What no bluetooth? No Wifi? All show no go.

[Judah Rosenthal Posted Jan 29th 2008 4:50PM]

A word my my friend & I came up w/ in high-school for looking @ girls while in a relationship seems appropriate for these types of Korea-only gadgets: Fun-stration (fun + frustration).

However, another, junior high word also comes to mind: Badical (bad + radical).

12 years on. Still a dork.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 29th 2008 6:06PM]

I concur.

[Judah Rosenthal Posted Jan 29th 2008 7:07PM]

Yes- sadly some things never change.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2008 12:39PM]

hi

JXD 951 WITH 1GB AND CARD SLOT, FM RECORD FROM ANY A/V SOUCE WITH 4INCHS TFT SCREEN IT COSTS 130 uS $

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 18th 2008 7:17PM]

I speak Korean and just checked out the site. This device does not have a camera; the little port you see on the back is so you can use the touch-pen as a kick-stand of sorts. It has a 4gig capacity with an SD card slot. Price looks like 248,000won or about $230(USD). Not bad but Cowon's D2 looks like a better buy at a cheaper price.