Cowon's 5-inch P5 touchscreen media player brings the haptic happy sauce
By Thomas Ricker 
posted July 23rd 2008 8:21AM
posted July 23rd 2008 8:21AM
Cowon just loosed raw PMP sex into the marketplace with its new P5 media player. We're talking 800 x 480 pixels spread across a 5-inch touchscreen display featuring Cowon's Widget+Haptic UI riding a 700MHz RMI Alchemy AU1250 processor. The P5 packs standard USB and USB-host jacks, T-DMB broadcast TV, FM radio, Bluetooth, TV-out (component, S-Video, and composite), stereo speakers, and up to 80GB of storage in a 138.8 x 88.5 x 20.0-mm slab of "Luxury Hairline Metal" (which sounds like brushed aluminum to us). It comes pre-installed with a Win CE Internet browser (a clumsy WiFi dongle can be added via the USB jack), MS Office document viewer, electronic dictionary, and support for AVI, ASF, WMV, MPG, OGM, DivX, Xvid, MPEG4, WMV9, MP3, WMA, AC3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and a few more media formats/codecs with a battery capable of about 9-hours of video or 14-hours of straight audio. No price announced but the P5 should hit Korean hands on the 29th of July in choice of black, red, or platinum.
[Via PMP Today and I4U]
[Via PMP Today and I4U]
For those of you lusting for this device - Cowon already has a similar device in the western market, the Q5:
Touch screen.
5" 800x480
60gb (largest version)
WindowsCE
Built-in Wi-Fi
$550 is list for 60gb version. No luxury hairline metal....
Anyone know what CPU this thing has in it?
Im getting one
man, i really wish one of these 800x480 pmps had video INPUT. They'd make a killer pocket field monitor for video production or flying on a jib arm. sigh.
The Cown Q5 does H.264 basic profile. I think it's more likely than not that this will play non HD H.264 of most types. But theres no way it will have the processing power to do 720P without dropping tons of frames.
Honestly just get a 700 dollar laptop with a decent screen and dedicated video. Not impossible to find. Of course it won't fit in your pockets unless you are very very fat or a clown or something but it's a much better way to watch high def movies.