AOC intros format-lovin' X600 portable media player

To say it's been awhile since we've seen anything noteworthy from AOC would be a gross understatement, but the Chinese firm is hitting back with a sleek new PMP that just dares you to feed it off-the-wall formats. Besides boasting an expansive 3-inch 400 x 240 resolution display, this bugger handles RM, RMVB, FLV, AVI, MOV, ASF, MP4, WMV, MPG, WMA, MP3, APE and FLAC files (among others) and offers up an FM tuner, text / photo viewer, 4GB of storage space and TV-out functionality. Fairly potent for 599 yuan ($85), huh?

[Via PMPToday]

[Aguiluz @ Apr 3rd 2008 5:37PM]

All for $85!? Man, they make it so cheap. I like it...

[idiot @ Apr 3rd 2008 5:37PM]

holy crap

[Anonymoose @ Apr 3rd 2008 5:37PM]

*looks at pants*

"MA! Where's the buttons?"

"They popped off, fatty."

i clicked on the picture and it led me to a chinese page with no other pictures of this thing. where are the inputs/outputs/buttons/microwave?

[Sharakar @ Apr 3rd 2008 5:42PM]

Ok, they just beat the bang/buck record, I'll praise em for that. Onda vx767 just became obsolete b4 it even got released. I tell ya, u just can't watch the Chinese mp4 player market without popcorn

[austin @ Apr 3rd 2008 5:43PM]

this looks awesome. from the front.

since no other pictures can be found, im not going to say it looks great everywhere. could have ugly buttons/ports on the side and an ugly back

[Anonymoose @ Apr 3rd 2008 5:47PM]

@austin

word. it might have adriana lima's rack, but if it has her grandmother's booty, i'm not going to like that much.


i think.

[BrettB @ Apr 3rd 2008 5:55PM]

I will purchase one of these regardless of the back should it become available stateside at that price. It's pretty much exactly what I've been looking for.

[ReggieXuk @ Apr 3rd 2008 6:02PM]

i don't know why i clicked, but i did.

[HalfJoey @ Apr 3rd 2008 6:14PM]

Sounds too good to be true. I'm not biting just yet. wtf is taking Archos so long to release official info on their new players?

[kris @ Apr 3rd 2008 6:21PM]

do want!

[kris @ Apr 3rd 2008 6:23PM]

damn, on second look - that's 100% photoshop. Crap device incoming?

[JT @ Apr 3rd 2008 6:32PM]

Typical AOC bias! Why don't you just rename this site EngadAOC and be done with it!

[Anonymoose @ Apr 3rd 2008 6:48PM]

@JT

oh please. AOC makes great products with pretty interfaces that you iRiver fanboys just can't compete with. it's not engadget's fault that iRiver sucks and AOC is da mad bombz, yo.

[Jason @ Apr 3rd 2008 7:21PM]

It's all the same in the dark.

[bob e @ Apr 3rd 2008 7:26PM]

Step aside iPod...

[IT-Accountant @ Apr 3rd 2008 8:11PM]

anyone know what the storage capacity will be on these things?
If it's 4 gb or more, than $85 is a steal

[cesium @ Apr 3rd 2008 8:13PM]

It's obviously a digital render, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the actual product is any different...

[zed @ Apr 3rd 2008 8:13PM]

cause the lolcats are burning in the oven, hurry!

[ethana2 @ Apr 3rd 2008 8:36PM]

zed, I would appreciate it if you were to change your profile picture. Thanks.

....'among others'?
I bet that's endadget's way of writing off vorbis, theora, and dirac.

[LM @ Apr 3rd 2008 10:07PM]

It looks awfully like this one:

http://seowchoon.com/main/product_info.php?products_id=5171

The price is almost the same too (S$149 is about US$90).

[zed @ Apr 3rd 2008 10:45PM]

^^ @Sharakar ^^

[celerysword @ Apr 4th 2008 12:10AM]

I agree. The lack of nipples makes me confused and a little disappointed.

[alex @ Apr 4th 2008 1:24AM]

Totally shopped; look closely at the top left corner and there is some really bad pixel work. Ah the dream....two months later, you'll be disappointed by the reality, only to have already moved on to another dream picture ;-)

[Ace b @ Apr 4th 2008 2:27AM]

@Jason

"It's all the same in the dark."

True,until you turn them on and actually see the difference.

[Decoy @ Apr 4th 2008 2:43AM]

All black, big screen, rounded corners?
Tch. Prada innovates, AOC emulates.

[Jeff @ Apr 4th 2008 2:52AM]

Haven't you heard?? The most popular devices in China are sporting mp5 now. LOL.

[Tim Brown @ Apr 4th 2008 5:13AM]

managed to dig this up. shows the button layout http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://tech.sina.com.cn/digi/mp4/2008-03-17/15322082462.shtml&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=12&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Daoc%2Bx600%26num%3D20%26hl%3Den%26newwindow%3D1%26rlz%3D1G1GGLQ_ENUK244%26sa%3DG

[Sharakar @ Apr 4th 2008 6:29AM]

Why do I suddenly smell photoshop?

[Aguiluz @ Apr 3rd 2008 9:54PM]

Does photoshop smell like anything?

[FRZ @ Apr 4th 2008 8:44AM]

I bet if I had a stray cat who constantly eats from the dumpster, it would smell like that.

[FRZ @ Apr 4th 2008 8:46AM]

That was a reply to Aguilus. This sucks. I did hit the reply link and it didn't work.

[mike @ Apr 4th 2008 9:42AM]

This smells like photoSHIT. WHy is the rain yellow?

[palehorse @ Apr 4th 2008 12:10PM]

I'm going out on a limb here and saying 4GB...

read much?!

[palehorse @ Apr 4th 2008 12:12PM]

my last comment was directed @IT-Accountant...

[tanooki2003 @ Apr 4th 2008 12:59PM]

Hmm this is intriguing enough for me to purchase it. I'm not a big brand name junkie like most here.

[chris @ Apr 4th 2008 2:29PM]

What the heck? Why did they steal a picture from national geographic and put it on there?!? Of an african desert tribe?

[ScooterDe @ Apr 4th 2008 5:03PM]

reading a few sites (in Chinese) suggests this is 2GB or has a 2GB version

[Student Driver @ Apr 4th 2008 6:01PM]

Wurd. Pound it!

[DiscoCat5 @ Apr 6th 2008 7:48AM]

i would snaffle this up so fast IF it had more storage, and or external storage (cf card or something) and @ zed.. nice

[Liuqi @ Apr 6th 2008 10:59PM]

If you guys can read Chinese, it says that 2GB version is around ￥400($57).
http://tech.sina.com.cn/digi/mp4/2008-03-17/15322082462.shtml

[Nick Soapes @ Apr 17th 2008 10:36PM]

Somebody please tell me where I can get one of these!!! I'm having no luck going through www.aocdigi.com