We had
reason to believe that iAudio 9 would be making itself official sooner rather than later, and while
Cowon has still yet to say anything publicly, we'd say this gallery of hands-on shots is more than enough to consider it a done deal. Across the pond, the iAudio 9 has been outed as having a 2-inch LCD display, integrated FM tuner, a microphone, TV output, broad format support (MP3, WAV, OGG, WAV, FLAC, APE, AVI, WMX and XviD, to name a few), 16GB of internal memory and bundled earbuds that you'll probably be happy to discard. We're told that it'll go on sale (at least somewhere in Europe) for around €180 ($265) here in a few weeks, and you can dive into the read link if you're hankering for some images.
posted Nov 3rd 2009 2:59AM
i would bang that music fan for $280
thank you for your completely relevant insightful opinion on this topic.
The only relevant thing about this product is that is heavily overpriced!!!!. 265 dollars for a 16 GB, non-touch, no-nothing MP4 player? Only fanbois are interested, jezz the thing cost more than a zune! I don't think is because of an out of this world sound quality neither...
I agree Runner50783, the Cowon S9 is a much better deal.
CNET is reporting a better price for the US.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-10388888-49.html?tag=TOCmoreStories.0
8GB ($129) and 16GB ($169)
It's available in the JetMall (iaudio's online retail outlet), shipping to US customers, a 16GB black version for $169. No more euro or pound speculation. :)
http://www.jetmall.net/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=515
Hey endgadget its on Cowon's sites frontpage at the moment! http://cowonglobal.com/
Jacob
I agree with reddsharkk
FUIRST
you spelled "fail" incorrectly.
I own the cowon iaudio 7 and it's gotta be - by far - the best sounding MP3 player out there. The GUI sucks. The slidy finger thing sucks.... but I don't care. This blows - LITERALLY BLOWS - the sound of ipods and all the other MP3 players I've had out of the water. Oh and the battery is incredible too.
So if all you care about is amazing sound, the price of these is worth it.
I own a fuze which is outstanding in the sound quality department and I don't believe that thing is worth 200 dollars more than a fuze.
I had (actually still have) a sansa clip after my first iaudio 7 was stolen and the sound quality IMO wasn't up to par to drive my Sony MDR-V6's. So I sucked it up and just bought another iaudio 7.
Why so few models with 32gb and above? In all but the flagship models, the capacity seems to have stagnated at 16.
so annoyingly true, I have a music collection of about 25GB and it's really hard to squeeze it into 16GB, but at 32 I could have that and some movies for the road.
I owned the iAudio X5 which had the first video, before video ipod. They make great players but are too over priced.
Don't trust engadget for your prices here. It's $169 for the 16GB, which is $10 less than Apple's cheapest 16GB player. It's more than a lot of players, but presumably far better audio quality and decent hardware quality.
Does it play WAV twice as well as the others? :)
Cowon is known for their sound quality, BUT also HORRIBLE firmwares. I have the iaudio 7 16GB and I don't see the reason to upgrade.