The CES was a big show for iRiver, releasing many products, and surprising a lot of people. The latest surprise is the E100. Built in speakers, large 2.4-inch screen and a interesting control system that takes up around a 3rd of the devices face make up the E100.
The disappointing parts are the storage size of a measly 4GB and the inability to play video files. That could all be changed in later revisions of the device and with firmware upgrades but why skimp on the initial release? Simple design, easy controls and clean design could make it a interesting device to look out for in the coming months.
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It is CES time, and as I previously predicted, there is a lot of UMPC news. The new articles that I noticed the most today are based around the Kohjinsha SR8KP06, Asus R50a, Lenovo MID, Aigo MID and WiBro MID. For the people who don’t know, and so I don’t have to go through it later, MID stands for Mobile Internet Device.
It is CES time, and surely you will get a million tech articles talking about all the upcoming devices. This time it seems to be the big year for UMPC’s, with many companies upgrading and releasing brand new models. iRiver, who aren’t really known for making notebooks or computers, have dived into the UMPC market, with a device simply called the Wing.
Not a whole lot is known about the cute little device, but it is definitely not the gaming hand-held it was going to be once upon a time. Instead it is a tiny little UMPC, with a a touchscreen, 4GB of flash memory (need more then that buddy), WiFi and runs Windows CE Pro (could be a good and bad thing).
This little device tells you a lot from the picture. Firstly, people will compare it straight away to the EeePC, because it is white and a UMPC (I still live by the fact that the EeePC isn’t a UMPC). The device suggests it is more focused on being much smaller then the EeePC, with a thumb board instead of the classic high button QWERTY. iRiver might be onto something if they can get it to the market at a good enough price. Will keep you updated as more information flies in.
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The Cowon A3 has been talked about for a while, with people getting a sneak peak of it back at the CES in January. If you don’t remember, the thing that make it stand out is the use of the DaVinci Chipset, which should give it the ability to punch out some pretty hot graphics.
Other then the cool chipset, the A3 will be able to playback DivX, FLAC, OGG, and a wide variety of lossless audio formats. It will feature HD TV-Out with an impressive resolution of 1280 x 720. It will be able to play and record FM stations, plus use the USB-Host to copy the photo’s off your camera. The screen on the player is also impressive with it being a sweet 4-inch widescreen with a resolution of 800 x 480.
I am impressed with the A3 information all round, and though it can’t surf the internet like the Archos players, it does do multimedia damn well. It is set for a November 14th release with a 30GB for $US387 and a 60GB for $US465. Can’t wait to see what the reviews have to say about this one.
For more info, click over to the Engadget Blog.