Your Perfect Premium MP3

The Cowon D2 is describable as your PPMP3 or Perfect Premium MP3 Player due to its high-profile features truly indeed making it your premium asset once you had gotten.  For one, these high-profile features would include the Television Out feature, the first review perhaps we did at MP3playerzone having this kind of functionality. And the multipurpose touch stylus and touch pen, which can also be use as a kickstand for extended viewing.

More on the Features

It features a wide touch screen at 2.5 inches diagonal LCD Screen allowing users a better viewing.  Also, the screen UI support 13 different languages (17 for the new firmware) making it all up for grabs to the whole world.  The QVGA Touch Screen leads to a 16 million color 24 bit LCD resulting into finer details with richer pictures and videos you haven’t experienced before.

The Cowon D2 supports a wide array of audio and video format making a really flexible gadget. It supports OCG, FLAC, MP3, WMA, WAV, Moving Picture Playback, APE, FM Radio Receiver and Recording, USB Storage and Voice Recording, Line-In Recording.  Much more you never run out of memory as it supports SD, MMC, MMC-plus and SDHC for easy transfer of files. What made this truly unparalleled is the lyrics display making you able to read lyrics when music is being played.

It has set the trend for the latest User Interface Standard through its overlay navigation showing the playback when a video is in play and still allows you to navigate other contents and applications on your player.  Also, the UI allows 4 way virtual motion creating the ability to move at four directions when navigating and browsing. 

Specifications

Dimensions: 8.0 W X 55.4 H X 16.6 D mm X 91g 

Display: 2.5 inch 16 million color (24bit) TFT-LCD : QVGA (320×240) Touch Screen support.

Playback Format: OCG, FLAC, MP3, WMA, WAV, APE

Folder Limit: 1,000 folders and 8,000 files (built-in + external)

Radio Support: Yes 76Mhz ~ 108Mhz, 87.5Mhz ~ 108Mhz, 32~256kbps Recording Support

Power: Built-in Rechargeable Lithium Polymer Battery

Playback Time: 52 hours for music, and 10 hours for movie

Software: JetShell, JetAudio VX 

Operating Systems: Supports MAC, Linux and Windows

Add-On Features: Scientific Calculator, Flash Player, Touch Screen Notepad

Overall Impression

At about $130.00 the MP3 player is not really as expensive as you would have thought reading the review.  The overall output quality such as the long playback time at 52 and 10 hours for movie and audio respectively is awesome.  A solid MP3 indeed for those looking for high-profile features.