PMP

Cowon has released details on their new Q5, and wow!! It sports a 5" screen, contains an AMD Alchemy 500MHz CPU, and is using Windows Professional 5.0 as an OS. Amazingly, they managed to squeeze a T-DMB tuner for portable TV, WiFi connectivity, electronic dictionary, Office file viewer, a TV recorder, USB connectivity, FM radio, and to top it all off, GPS navigation! It will have a claimed battery life of 13 hours of music playback, and 6 hours of video playback, so even if it is 75% of that, it will be pretty impressive. The Q5 will be available in two sizes, 40 and 60GB versions, no pricing was announced, hopefully it wont be too much, I want one.

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Engadget has some shots of the upcoming Internet Tablet from Nokia, the 870. The shots are predictably blurry, but they do provide enough tidbits to wet the appetite.

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With memory getting smaller and smaller, it is allowing electronics designers to reduce the overall size of their devices, case in point the new Cowon D2, sporting a 2.5" screen, the new PMP is scarcely bigger than that.

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Mobile Mag has a review of the Archos 604, and except for the small disk, it comes out very well.

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Archos has come out with a Wifi enabled 604, allowing you to not only download and upload media through your wireless, but also surf the web.

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Toshiba is poised to release it's newest Gigabeat, the V60, with 60gb of storage, and generous media support, it willl be interesting to see how they shape up.

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Looks like Archos is adding another file format to its line of PMPs, but this time it comes with a price, you will be required to purchase the upgrade for $25 US. My guess is that the licensing fee is more than the figured, and are passing the cost onto the comsumer, with the a built in file support already pretty good, I don't really see the need, I wonder how long before someone figures a way to hack this?

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This is quite the amazing looking PMP, it plays every media type I can think of, has a SD slot, a 4.3" touchscreen, kitchen sink, and a host of other great features. Check out the details after the jump!

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Now here is a PMP with some style, the Ainol sports a slick metal looking case, and a landscape view LCD. The player supports AVI / MP4 video playback at 30 frames per second, as well as MP3, WMA, and FLAC audio formats, and also supports an emulator built in, allowing you to play those classic games on the go. The unit features 512MB / 1GB of internal storage, and an SD allowing for for more storage.

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The Valei PMC200 features a 3.5-inch TFT-LCD display with a 16:9 aspect ratio, MPEG1/MPEG2/MPEG4 (ASP@ L5 without QPEL and GMC)/ Divx/ Xvid/DVD ISO support, and USB 2.0. They report that it will have 4 hrs of video playback and 10 hrs for audio. The PMC200 will be available in 40 GB, 60GB, 80GB or 120GB versions. It is a respectable 142.5x81x20mm, making it not too big, if you have large pockets.

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