Cowon's S9 with 3.3-inch AMOLED touch-screen kills with style
By Thomas Ricker 
posted August 25th 2008 2:57AM
posted August 25th 2008 2:57AM
Taste that? It's the sweet nectar of want for Cowon's new S9 Curve. This 3.3-inch media player features an AMOLED capacitive touch panel display that spreads 16 million colors across 480 x 272 pixels. Inside you'll find a 500MHz dual-core CPU, T-DMB digital television tuner, Bluetooth, FM radio, TV-out, and G-Sensor accelerometer. All that and nearly two days (40 hours) of music playback from a single charge. No price yet but we expect to hear more later this week as the big European IFA show kicks off in Berlin.
[Via CNET Asia]
[Via CNET Asia]
Am I the only who have noticed that it has a dual-core CPU! :0
No, but you're probably the only one to think that.
to me the biggest pro of this device is the AMOLED touch screen. Really wish apple had put a 4.3" in the new iphone, probably be a couple of years before that happens though.
It's only a 3.3 inch, but it should still be a fantastic screen, with the AMOLED
Am I the only one that is insanely impressed by the battery life on their products.... My A2 can play video for 10 HOURS STRAIGHT! I know cause I tested it on a flight. Forget all this fanboy, not fanboy BS... I want Cowon hardware, features, and battery life with apple GUIs and software then we got a killer product. I love my A2, and I'm def what you consider a power user, but even us power users appreciate a slick and flowing interface.
Will this work on Verizon? Because I want one.
Its not a phone.
It ain't a phone joe
Hmm I wonder... If this was a phone, which UI would suck more: Cowon's or the Verizon's?
Sweet merciful crap, my head just exploded. This thing is so sweet, it can't possibly be real. The fact that it is makes this existence just that much better. 8^D
"Sweet merciful crap, my head just exploded."
Crap is NOT merciful, nor is it sweet!
Tell that to someone who just cleared up their constipation.
If it has 40+ gigs of space I`m sold! My Cowon A3 is getting old...
Makes my breasts swell with anticipation.
Wow, that thing is sexy.
Thanks for your contributive comment. Please post more often.
Interesting but I think I'd prefer the extra inch of screen real-estate on iRiver and Archos' latest PMPs. But I use mine mainly for movie-watching.
Here's hoping it's not wince based like the Q5
Hmmm, am I the only one that would love this thing to be double the resolution? Otherwise, this will probably be my first PMP purchase...
shunn the non iphoner shunnnnnn, shunnnnn,
Granted this does look similar to a certain apple product, but if I am REALLY tiring of these endless comparisons to the iphone/itouch.
It has become way too predicable and has pretty much bored me to tears on engadget. It's clear that there is a huge fan base for apple products here, but you need to get over yourselves. Yes you're pretty iphone, but not everyone wants to sleep with you.
I don't know about that, Ben. Whenever someone brings up an Apple product in their comment, they're usually always low ranked.
If this thing were a mobile phone as well people would kill for it!
Just the looks itselft can be a threat to iphone. It has the BALLS to compete with iphone.
and i think that's what the balls represent in this picture. cojones. this PMP has balls.
I really want to see what they have in store for the D2 replacement if there is one.
Now if I had the iPod touch and the Samsung P2 and blend them together this would be their frankenbaby. I want one.
Don't feed the troll!
companies need to stop trying to copy the iphone and come out with something new and different.
Go fuck yourself. this is the successor to the Cowon D2, which came out in 2006, which was BEFORE the iphone!
I have an 8gb D2 with an 8gb SD-HC card, and the thing is rated at 52 hours for audio playback and 10 hours for video. I love it, and it makes investing in headphones worth it.
And oddly enough I commented on wanting to replace my X5L with the Archos 5 a few days ago. Still the Archos has wifi... Maybe I should just wait for the S9L and a four day battery life :-))
What makes me really happy is that there is no hint of the stupid connector dongle they used on the M3 and the X5 and the even stupider joystick on the X5 that broke and wont register a down press (which is really the only reason I need to replace mine). I hope they kept the USB-OTG support.
Zach, that maybe but I guess my point is that its a distraction from worthy discussions. It ends out becoming a rant back and forth.
Maybe people should be penalized a point for every gratuitous iphone comment... then 3 strikes you get blocked from making comments for a month!
I know it's not realistic but I am just throwing out an idea.
This look really nice... to bad that ugly COWAN logo is there in the front.
they need to change that into something that sounds better, like um ...something that's not COWAN.
Any one got any suggestions?
How about Cowon?
die in a fire?
LONG LIVE COWON!
That's the thing with Cowon that has always impressed me. They never have gotten stuck into the cycle of mass media marketing that many other portable media player companies have. The cycle that usually ends in devices having as many features as possible shoved into a single device which, thus, ruins the focused nature of their processing units and, therefore, butchers their sound quality and lowers their battery life.
Cowon is not a pretty name, no, but I'm sure the people who this company caters to are proud about having that name on their purchase when they use it.
To everyone whingeing "Why isn't it a (i)phone as well?"
Some of us actually WANT to keep our PMPs seperate from our phones!
Listening to it will obviously drain the battery, which is pretty stupid when you NEED to use is as a phone.
If a cell phone would have this look and interface and the samsung omnia specs I would sell my wife to buy it and I'm pretty sure all of you loosers would queue up to give me your coins.
this looks incredible, I can't find any stores in canada to buy Cowon products, does anyone know where you can?
I'm totally buying this!
The day it comes out.
Forget the htc pro.
But how do you get enough signal for a decent DTV picture? Hope this doesn't rely on the provided earbuds which won't go in my ears - as with my current D2 DAB.
no wifi? >.<
We dont have no dmb over here, couldnt they replace that module with wifi? id be sold XD
I wish girls looked this sexy. :'(
Why are apply fanboys always so compelled to show up on every forum and say "huh... uhh... it's not an iPhone... uhhh... must be bad then... uhhh". Then there's the fanboys showing up saying "uhh... uhh? it's not an Ipod Touch... uhhh no wireless uhhhh must suck then.... uhh??"
Allow me to set you straight a little. IPHONE AND IPOD TOUCH DEVICES ARE NOT CAPABLE OF REPRODUCING AUDIOPHILE QUALITY SOUND FROM A DIGITAL FILE, UNLIKE COWON DEVICES. There. I said it. That is a very big reason to buy Cowon and not buy Apple. If you know anything about Audio chips you would have known this. Cowon sports the highest end audio chips of all MP3 players, and the software that backs it up is in many ways superior to that of Apple's products.
This is not to downgrade Apple, as they make products for the average Joe. The average Joe only judges a device by the sum of its features, while a real fanatic of not a Brand (apple fanboys again) but of Technology and Quality itself, will judge a device by how well the given features complement what the device is set out to do.
Average Joe's with MP3 players sport theyr $10 Apple headphones and think "Oh, my tunes sound nice." People sporting say, a Cowon D2 with a Shure SE530 or an AKG K701 will never return to an IPod as the IPod's focus is not audio quality, but to create a very accessible package. I do not want accessible. I want audiophile bliss. Cowon makes this. Apple does not. Go Cowon. Go Sony. Go IRiver.
To bottom line is I couldn't give a flying **** if my MP3 player has 3G or WiFi. I want PERFECT AUDIO and I want it to LAST LONG (my d2 easily gives me 45 hours of audio playback and has a MUCH MORE POWERFUL AMPLIFIER THAN ANY APPLE). I want to line my setup with a $8000 tube amp/speaker config and hardly be able to tell the difference.
That is why we do not buy a phone that includes it all. Frankly, your Apple IPhone comments are BS. There are plenty of phones out there that sport 3.5" jacks, touch screens, 3G and Wi-Fi, they were even there before the IPhone came out.
With my Shure's I can even easily tell the difference in quality between my MacBook Pro (which sounds great really, much better than an IPod) and my D2 (which sounds a lot more out there).
Even if I had an IPhone I would buy a Cowon for my audio needs. End of story.
i really want a new mp3 player. i have a creative vision: M. I love it but it was made back in the year of the stupid Apple Mini. i want new technology. I love the looks of this player and i like the awesome features, so should i get it this year or wait?????? I am only 14 so i don't have too much mulla to spend on it. i draw the line at $250. I can't agree more with how the ipods sound, they suck at playing audio files!!!