http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/ Engadget Comments for Cowon's award-winning J3 PMP spotted in the wilds of France, available there next month http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 20th 2010 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/
Reviews I have seen say that it feels more solid than the S9 (which some complained was plasticky and hollow feeling)]]>Apr 20th 2010 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/
The S9 feels more than good enough. Fits just right in the hand. I'd like to meet the person who upgrades solely based on "plastic feel".]]>Apr 20th 2010 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/
Unfortunately the only media player announced with those specs is the Viliv P3 (which is probably vaporware), so I will probably end up buying a phone with xvid support.]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/
NONE of the Cowon MP3 players have WIFI. ]]>Apr 21st 2010 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 20th 2010 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/
The ZuneHD, correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't support as many file types - which is my primary reason for wanting this. and it's pretty sharp looking.]]>Apr 20th 2010 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/The ZuneHD supports high-res Xvid, and also H.264. What else could you need?]]>Apr 20th 2010 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Flac, Ogg, Ogg Theora, etc etc. Basically all the open formats.]]>Apr 20th 2010 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 20th 2010 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/
I've recently downloaded and am using Cowon's desktop software (jetAudio 8.0.5) and have to say that I love it. I don't even own a Cowon player yet ... I just grabbed it as an iTunes replacement. I won't listen to mp3s and am tired of having to mess with wavs in iTunes. I'll be damned if jetAudio doesn't sound better than Foobar2000 and iTunes when playing back lossless files. I know the argument; "how could it?" .. but I'm a mastering engineer and have pretty solid ears and it's beautiful sounding compared to Foobar and a bit better than iTunes.

So in that regard - Cowon's desktop offering is no slouch.]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 20th 2010 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 20th 2010 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/this.]]>Apr 20th 2010 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 20th 2010 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 20th 2010 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Unfortunately, Rockbox isn't yet possible on the newer iPod Classics. Your next best bet is to purchase a 2nd hand iPod 5.5g 80gb or something like the Toshiba Gigabeat with a
60gb drive but bigger screen and more video options, plus the iPod's audio is lacking unless it's docked and post-amplified.

@choufleur47
I agree with everything you said. Where the hell is the high capacity or upgradable capacity players with an emphasis on audio playing and not PMP.

The best player in this regards at the moment is the Sansa Clip +, especially with the 32gb microSD cards coming out very shortly. But can some company please make a compact, high quality expandable audio player? The technology was there 5 f'n years ago (see iRiver S10 if it had an SD slot).

]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 20th 2010 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/you got the point]]>Apr 21st 2010 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 20th 2010 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/it comes with a micro sd slot but maxes out at 16gb so far.]]>Apr 20th 2010 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 20th 2010 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 20th 2010 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/incredible band]]>Apr 20th 2010 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/
One of my all time favorite bands.

I saw them live last month.

It blew my mind.]]>Apr 20th 2010 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 20th 2010 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/I agree, seems like only Apple and Microsoft have the 64gb players and the ZuneHD 64 took forever to come out!]]>Apr 20th 2010 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 20th 2010 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 20th 2010 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/
I *think* it's flac. Can't remember where I read that.]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 20th 2010 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 20th 2010 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 20th 2010 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 20th 2010 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/and how did you come to this conclusion?]]>Apr 20th 2010 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/also super grammar fail]]>Apr 20th 2010 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 20th 2010 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/you got a new iphone off contract for $49???
get the fuck outta here.
and why are you including capacities that you dont even have and listing it as $49 dollars when subsidized they run like 200???
unsubsidized 500+
if you arent trolling , kill yourself.]]>Apr 20th 2010 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 20th 2010 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#NAND_flash
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive]]>Apr 21st 2010 12:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/
first of all, learn how to write a f***ing sentence .. and how to spell correctly. people who write the way you do make me weep for the future. sorry to be so harsh .. but i'm tired of seeing people vomit the alphabet all over the internet.

secondly, some of us care about sound quality without the need for all the extra nonsense and Apple baggage. i have an iphone and it's far from an ideal music player. in fact, the only music i play on it comes from the Simplify Media app and not the iPod because i can stream my flacs and wav files.

the Nationite S:Flo2 is another pmp made for people who care about their music enough to not need their player to be another do-it-all gadget; smartphones cover this desire just fine.]]>Apr 20th 2010 11:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/Apr 21st 2010 4:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/What a surprise, Shank is back again trolling Cowon posts. Seriously STFU already, nobody gives a damn about your obsession with stearing wheel controls. You say your iPhone does all that, Cowon do loads of stuff that actually matters more in a PMP (have a decent set of codec support for 1) that the iPhone doesn't.

Again STFU.]]>Apr 21st 2010 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/cowons-award-winning-j3-pmp-spotted-in-the-wilds-of-france-ava/
I was reading this, trying to find some info about the J3, and I'm wondering if some comments that were posted are missing? There's a lot of comments to @hated one, but I don't see any post by that user. Am I missing something?

I'm looking for some good useful info about the J3, because I'm considering buying one. I don't own a pmp yet, but I want a good one with FLAC and very good FM radio support, including recording radio and voice.

Thanks.
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