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No, it doesn't, and it won't until someone can can top Apple's user experience and ecosystem. Hardware is worthless alone.]]>Dec 15th 2008 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/
You are not everybody. Believe it or not, one company does not make a product that everyone will like above all others. People are different and like different things. There are people who would use this if it was a plastic brick with a command line UI, because the the audio quality and file support.

Personally, the biggest thing I dislike about the iPod Touch is Apple's user experience and 'ecosystem' (I actually like it pretty well other than that), iTunes is an abomination on Windows, and the only other player close to being as locked down as an iPod is the Zune. I'll take drag and drop, with any desktop media player I choose, thanks.]]>Dec 15th 2008 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/ iPod & iPhone as a media player.]]>Dec 15th 2008 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/
You can also load Linux on it too. The point is, neither of those options are supported or intended operation of the iPod, and some difficulties are bound to arise sooner or later (Also, while Winamp makes it easy for you to do that, Apple makes it quite difficult on the Winamp devs to open it for you). With the exception of the iPod Touch, the UI and feature set of a standard iPod is nothing spectacular. It's good, easy to use, and functional, but there are plenty of other players that meet or exceed the iPod in those categories. So my point stands, that the iPod is, by default, a rather locked down player when there is no reason it couldn't be more flexible and open, other than Apple doing their best to lock people into iTunes and milk more cash out of them (And as I stated, MS does the exact same thing with the Zune).]]>Dec 15th 2008 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/
You can't use Wimamp or anything on Linux on an iPod Touch...the device everyine was talking about before you decided to be smug and wrong all at the same time.]]>Dec 16th 2008 3:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/
http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/shop/MP3_Players.1/Cowon_iAudio.15/S9-16GB/Cowon_iAudio_S9_16GB_MP3_Player.3580.html

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Personally I think this is an awesome device and if you don't mind recoding your video files to 480x272 or lower, then this is for you.]]>Dec 15th 2008 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/
Corrected.]]>Dec 15th 2008 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/
...except there's no reencoding required unless you just want to save a bit of space.]]>Dec 15th 2008 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/

Uh-oh.]]>Dec 15th 2008 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/-OLED screen. This has the potential to be awesome, though we will have to wait for the reviews
-File and codec compatibilty, which is usually very good with Cowon products.

If this plays all my movie files straight out of the box (with no ridiculous Archos style 'add-ons' or transcoding) and has an awesome screen, I would definitely consider buying it. Looking forward to reviews]]>Dec 15th 2008 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIUVkS1j_0Y]]>Dec 15th 2008 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIUVkS1j_0Y&fmt=18]]>Dec 15th 2008 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/it's called custom but I wouldn't asked from someone who shares it's nationality with steve Jobs to understand this concept.

You pay for what you use, if you don't use you don't pay.
that's the reasons why the Archos 5 is MUCH MUCH cheaper than the Cowon Q5W which is the only one to compete with him right now.
If you pay for the additional codec you end up with a HD compatible player, and that's not very common sir.
So Yes you pay for this stuff, and it's because this codecs are protected by a patent.

Again I'm not gonna try to explain why not everyone needs this additional codecs, and why they are therefore not included (understand you don't HAVE to pay for them if you don't use them) to someone who believes that a mp3 players should ome with your on-PC media player and the place where you buy your music from.

PS : what players plays MPEG-4 ASP 720p, h.264 and MPEG-2 in DVD quality except Archos 5?]]>Dec 15th 2008 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/shop/MP3_Players.1/Cowon_iAudio.15/S9-16GB/Cowon_iAudio_S9_16GB_MP3_Player.3580.html
Not really available (out of stock) but at least it's there with pricing.

]]>Dec 15th 2008 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/
They're quite different devices though, since the Archos 5 has wifi and a larger screen.]]>Dec 15th 2008 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/On another note. PMPs like the above could really set themselves apart if they had 2 microSD slots. One of the slots could house your regular micro storage card, and the other would be used for uploading photos/movies from your digi-cam/cell phone. That would minimize swapping and would keep the local storage from getting topped off. ]]>Dec 15th 2008 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/
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This Friday.

Say.....9-ish?]]>Dec 15th 2008 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/And has anyone seen the screen in action?]]>Dec 15th 2008 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/cowon-ships-s9-pmp-to-us-soil/Dec 15th 2008 4:24PM