Cowon D2 4 GB

Advantages: Great sound and video, vast amount of features, ease of use
Disadvantages: Touch screen

...yet another Ipod killer, The Cowon D2 2\4\8gb. With an excellent battery life (rated 52 hours with audio and 10 hours with video), excellent quality (BBE sound enhancements), FM Radio, Touch Screen and other great features (many available only with the Korean Firmware), This player stands a good chance of becoming an intrusion in your path while you plan to buy something else but the Cowon D2. We shall discuss the features in detail here on: Audio: ...
...anything of it's comparison its the Zen X-fi. Video: (2.5 LCD) The screen looks great, you wont ever feel you are watching videos on a small\tiny screen. Screen: Its got a touch screen, and you might find it a little uncomfortable handling the touch screen, but its a nice feature to have. Fm Radio: Self Explanatory Design and Software: I particularly like the design of this player, fits the hand very well. The software is nothing you can ... Read review

Advantages: SDHC/SD slot, touchscreen, FM radio
Disadvantages: Expensive, poor firmware

Cowon D2 is portable media player (PMP) to kill or change the Apple Ipod. Some advantages from Cowon D2 is touchscreen, what ipod doesn't have. Many format audio can play in Cowon D2, such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, FLAC, APE, WAV, AAC (only on older firmware versions). Cowon D2 can play movie too, movie format is MPEG4-SP (DivX, XviD, ...), WMV9 - 320 x 240, 30fps. Some point plus from Cowon D2 is SD/SDHC card slot, TV-out, FM radio, voice/line-in/FM ...
...sound qualitiy. From me ears Cowon D2 has good sound. Very transparat and analityc, but for me is too transparant, make fatique if i hear for a long time. Cowon D2 doesnt have line out like ipod, so the sound output only from headphone out. Minus point from Cowon D2 is expensive for this space size. With same price you can get Ipod Classic 60Gb, in my country. No line out too. For this range price, if you need portable media player what can play ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent audio quality, great autonomy, touch screen of exceptional quality, expansion for SD cards
Disadvantages: none

...if neafsta. No, friends. The Cowon D2 is a real miniPMP (Portable Multimedia Player: portable media player). Its excellent touchscreen 16 million color display allows videos with impressive quality, superior in many cases players with screens above (recall that this player has a screen size of 2.5''). In addition, the video format it supports is, in essence, MPEG-4 SP with a QVGA, ie a Divx / Xvid without extras, at a resolution of 320x280, with ...
...we used to compress video for this player, without the need for proprietary programs meet or unknown to us (recommended VirtualDub, Avidemux, iRiverter). Although here we have a technical contradición player is able to play videos with a quality bitrate of kbites until 2000, when a Xvid normal VGA resolution does not usually exceed 900 kbites. Moreover, in QVGA, 500 kbites is achieved exceptional quality. Therefore, if the processor is capable of ... Read review