4 December 2007

By: Roxana Deduleasa, Gadget News Editor
COWON Q5W Wireless PMPs Deployed In the US!
The PMP offers lots of cool features

COWON Q5W PMP Cowon

COWON has just announced its intentions to ship its next-generation Q5W portable media player in the U.S. The more important is the fact that this PMP is actually the first one ever to combine Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless technologies with a cool 5-inch wide screen color TFT LCD. Not to mention it was given a classy touch sensitive interface to go with the smooth polished design line. Based on a AMD Alchemy AuMhz internal processor, the PMP is said to be fully compatible with Microsoft Windows CE 5.0 Professional operating system.Why is it so important for COWON? It seems like: "The COWON Q5W is the first three-in-one portable device that delivers premium multimedia player, mobile PC and GPS navigation capabilities to holiday gadget shoppers and digital media enthusiasts nationwide. "Discriminating consumers can now do it all in one definitive PMP package: watch movies on a large wide-screen, use Wi-Fi to browse the Internet and check e-mails, wirelessly connect to Bluetooth-enabled stereo headphones and even plot their journey home with an optional GPS navigation package. To top it off, the Q5W offers 40GB or 60GB of storage capacity, an advanced photo and document viewer, built-in stereo speakers, an FM tuner and the industry's best audio/video format support," explains Francis Choi, senior marketing manager, COWON America.Juiced up for about 13 hours via a single lithium polymer rechargeable battery, the COWON Q5W can deal with lots of file formats such as MP3, WMA, ASF, OGG, WAV, FLAC, APE and MPC file formats for audio content, as well as AVI, ASF, WMV, MPEG and OGM file formats. The sound performance can be customized with JetEffect BBE, Mach3 Bass, MP Enhance, 3D Surround or with one of the 5 equalizer modes. The PMP also features an integrated Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) feature and enables users to wirelessly connect to the Internet to surf the Web, use e-mail and MSN voice-enabled Messenger service. The pre-installed Adobe Embedded Flash Player 7 allows users to create and experience interactive content, applications and video on the Web. Additionally, the COWON Q5W includes the latest Bluetooth 2.0 technology to wirelessly connect to Bluetooth-enabled stereo headphones. Interested in getting yourself one of those, then you should know the prices of the Cowon Q5W 40 GB and 60GB are 549.99 bucks and 599.99 bucks, respectively. What's more? An optional COWON Q5W GPS navigation package is available for $199.99. We are just a few, but there are many of you, Softpedia users, out there. That's why we thought it would be a good idea to create an email address for you to help us a little in finding gadgets we missed. Interesting links are bound to be posted with recognition going mainly to those who submit. The address is.
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