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  • @ringding314 it's not samsung?

  • you speak tooooooooo slow!!!!

  • yeah, i wanna tap that!

  • you tell it's Adobe Flash powered, animation is well jerky

  • does it have internet

  • Thank you for this review. This is the first one I've seen that really showed what the file/folder browser is like on this device, which is a major point for me. Thank you!

  • It has the ability t turn off the rotating of the screen?

  • @9Dane3 Couldn't have said it any better myself, I personally use a Zune HD and it's very good, but yes, cowon still beats it on the sound portion, with customizable equalizers and what not, all you have are 5 presets on the Zune. And yeah I think it's ridiculous how popular the ipod is, I was just making a point that it does excel in gaming, but other than that, nothing, and it's not worth the price at ALL.

  • Cowon has the best MP3 players, I love the built in Line-in recording feature.

  • @9Dane3 but I will agree with you on the sound portion, this player bends the ipod over a table with no lube when it comes to audio quality.

  • @9Dane3 okay tell me what amazing gaming you can do on a cowon?

    and also, what type of social anything you can do on it... Absolutely none since it has zero wi-fi capabilities, yes the ipod is overpriced but it's worth it compared to this player. 

  • Robo voice :S

  • Why do you hold it so tight and awkward, thats why he couldn't slide through the album covers.

  • regarding the buttons on the top, are you able to skip through tracks using the fast forward and rewind buttons??

  • You should do guided meditation videos

  • couple questions: 1. Is there anyway to make the touch screen more sensitive or at least more responsive?

    2. Is there an actual way to make it go to sleep without going through the menu (like the iPod touch and its sleep/wake button on the top)?

  • sorry but this is painfully boring please try to be a little more energetic when doing these videos

  • if you're do something, you gotta do it right

  • Zune's RulzZz ... .. ...

    

  • I've posted three comments in a row because on did not have enough character space, please read them all

  • @finerats

    That was very helpful! Thanks a lot :D

  • but when it comes to touch screen I have never come across a device with a better responce than the Sony Walkman x series, there is never any delay or inaccuracy. After using this device, the pitiful attempts of keeping up with your finger that the Cowon above shows is dire - you flick and the machine later responds, this to me would be unbearable. Check out my review of the Sony Walkman x series and have a try on one....!

  • How does the Sony's sound quality compare to the Cowon's S9?

  • hmmm that's the thing, both Sony and Cowon are way way above all the other companies out there (especially apple, although Creative have pretty good sound quality). But between Cowon and Sony there appears to be very little difference, either will do you well in terms of sound quality, but it's overall quality of production that the Sony will of course be the winner of. Hope this helps :)

  • Touch is the most intuitive and natural way to use a device and when done correctly it works like a dream. This Cowon device, you say, has a good response to your touch, and I would like to point out that it doesn't! touch ranges from very very bad (on some cheap touch screen mobile phones - it's all about the price in this case) that are hellish to use, to very responsive and slick touch responces. The Ipod touch has a fairly good touch responce,

  • @finerats

    But then the Touch is from Apple and as we all know Apple only does shallow products. :)

  • @Luthicwoot brilliant.

  • Hi, I've been realizing recently about the touch screen devices (of which there are more of all the time), it is very important how well the UI reacts to your touch, within a very short amount of time you will get very frustrated with a device that is slow to react or inaccurate with the touch.

  • this review was boring

  • i almost slept away...awesome player...boring review

  • Yeah, for some people its hard to stay awake without someones idea of good music playing in the background.

    Or without cuts to features without showing the unimportant steps needed to activate said feature.

    I mean some people just need to see as many people as possible in as short a period as possible having fun with a device to make a totally informed decisions on what is good and what is not.

    Good thing for you YouTube and the general media scene is full of those other kinds of videos. :)

  • just sayin

  • What are the better mp3/video players out there?

  • Sony x series, ipod touch, samsung p3...

    I like the x series the best, but its really expensive.

  • ipod touch is not really better in general...in case of sound quality the cowon player is clearly ahead

  • yea i agree, the sound quality of the touch is below average but overall its really worth it simply because of the apps.

    i like the sound quality of the cowon, the only thing i dont like about it is the interface, and it takes a lot of my rating space thats why i prefer the x series. i dont really want to use the net trough the small devices, i prefer using the usual computer. so the sucky web browser of the sony wont affect my mind.

  • check out my review of the sony x series, no UI has the response to touch as well as the sony screen on this device, and the sound quality is almost as good as Cowon (much better than apple of course!)

  • Why would people even mention that in here.

  • i like the samsung p3 better

  • does anyone know if like if you, zoom into the text, could you like, save it that way? so it's zoomed in the same the next time?

  • agreed. he mumbles throughout the whole thing.

  • voice is slowly eating away at my ear drums, thank you for the display though

  • Genius... 126 British pounds = 208.4544 U.S. dollars

    Also, here the 16GB is $199. Maybe this is why you lost the colonies.

  • you pwned him. Congrats fellow American.

  • @triggrhaapi i like how your post made no sense what so ever?

  • in what stores Do they sell the cowon s9?

    please Answer, i need to know.

    Thanxx. :]

  • its very hard to find it in america cause its from sout korea .i ordered mine on amazon 200$ for 8gig and im gettin it wednesday :D

  • newegg . com

    i got a 16GB for about $235

  • You can change the font...as well as the entire theme..

    Everything is Flash7. There are tons of user created User Created/Creative Interface (UCI).

  • thanks for the helpful comment =]

  • Hey, you listen to Jack Conte, too! Cool. I'm considering getting an S9 or maybe a D2.

  • Does anyone know anything about the Latte Café 32 GB Video MP3 Player with 4.3-Inch Touchscreen. Its only $189 on Amazon

  • Awesome that you listen to Aphrodite :]

  • can you put apps on it?

  • Does this have a durable screen?

  • Uhh, check the video he made on that very topic.

  • it can last keys but thats really it id reccomend u buying a screen protector

    and also on amazon it is pretty cheap around 170 for 16gb and 200 for 32gb

  • has the coverflow imporoved since then?

  • whats the best program used to sync this device with album artwork and all that? also how do u quickly lock the screen? i dont want buttons pushed when i walk.

  • Can u tell me if it have external memory card?

  • no it doesnt

  • it doesn't. the cowon O2, which is a 4.3" PMP, has a slot for SDHC cards (not microSD).

  • if you have itunes if you press advanced there is an option to convert to mp3 file. i got a samsung p3 and it works fine but takes forever to convert because its one at a time and it doubles the music

  • despite all the fancy specs and applications available these days after awhile it just comes down to sound quality. in that sense I think S9 is a very attractive competition.

  • ipod doesnt have bluetooth retard ipod sucks!!!!!

  • ipod touch has bluetooth with update 3.0 , jerk

  • @st33l3rsfan86 yes it does. lol

  • @st33l3rsfan86 yes it does...

  • @st33l3rsfan86 in fact, the iPod touch DOES have Bluetooth with the correct firmware update. Must admit I'm not 100% what you can do with it, I think it's functionality has been limited by Apple. But regardless, you sound pretty stupid right now considering it does have Bluetooth.

  • @skewis6 lol, please forgive us, but we are to Apple what Iran is to the U.S. we don't really like them alot, and we are willing to say stupid things just to show disobedience. :)

  • depends on what you're looking for. In almost every review you'll hear the SQ of the cowon s9 is way better then that of the touch.

  • my bro got the touch 2nd gen, this has way better sound & vid but not as many features

  • u joaking write i had itouch and that thing is such first its apple second not sound qualety i had s9 and now am geting another one becouse sound is way different then i heard any where

  • i meant the sound of the s9 is better -.-

  • I was originally planning on getting the P3 since I currently own and enjoy the P2, but I heard that Cowon has better sound quality in their players. Is this true? I loved the P2 because of the DNSe but if the S9 has better sound quality then I'll buy it. I really don't latch on to certain companies so I don't care if I "betray" Samsung to get an S9 either...lol

  • it is better lol

    it has much more than DNSe

    i have a samsung and cowon player and the cowon is much better

    the DNSe actually isin't too good in my opinion

  • Is it capacitive or resistive?

  • capacitive

  • what i still dont unserstand is this : why the fuck would they include flash support BUT 4get the wi-fi ....any ideas ?

  • because the whole OS is made in flash allready, and you could use flash apps and run flash video and animations, would be stupid NOT to include it I would say.. ^ ^ not that I can name a single flash app though

  • lol tur ...but the things that gets me is that this is made for wi-fi cus it already has flash but to get apps and vids etc u need to hook it up to yo comp ..thats soo 1999 well maybe there will be a firmware update 2 give it wifi like there was for the psp

  • The PSP already had a Wireless-G radio built into it, the S9 does not. Unfortunately, a firmware update will be unable to rectify this particular shortcoming of the S9.

  • All I care for a mp3/video player, as long it plays windows media player videos, avi, flv, ect and with bluetooth, im happy. my Ipod sound went out few days ago, and I'm never buying another ipod again.

  • Hi, I'm having a problem. I torrent all my music and I synced it onto my S9 via the Cowon Media thing that came on the disc. It's all under one album artwork. How do I fix this?

  • is this without any firmware update ??? doesnt it work faster today????

  • thank´s for the reviews i wane choose a mp3 player and that´s help me :D

  • The Only thing that disappointed me is that it doesn't have external speaker... I have to use head phone to listen to the audio :(...

  • Why didnt they add wi-fi????? If they did it could have KILLED itouch! Whats wrong with them. Seriously, if this mp3 player had Wifi, I dont care if this starts at $300. I would still buy it. Why they make us chose always?? Why???damn you cowon!!

  • why do you want wifi on this.... you got wifi on your phone an multimedia player is for multimedia and not for internet???

  • i dont kno if you have notices but surffing the net on your fone is slow ass hell an not many sites work well on them

  • is this thing ever coming out in Canada??

  • it is, you have to look at certain computer stores... ncix has it i think

  • ....

    i mean like, in best buy cause i have a gift card for it...

  • does this have wi-fi???

  • no dont think so

  • I have the Ipod touch 2nd gen the Cowon Q5W and the Cowon S9 and they are all amazing but sadly enough I have to say that I use the Ipod Touch a lot more.

    But even the Ipod has its major drawbacks.

    I use the Ipod touch for all my internet usage,running games and music.

    Q5W for my on the go Photography and when I Travel with the use of the GPS cradle.

    S9 for for all kinds of music files and some movies.

    All three are just amazing, either way you will love your toys.

  • The cover flow is painful, the touch should be much better. I wonder why the people made the cowon let this ...

  • can u not get pens for em lol

  • this or an ipod touch

  • its your choice, im getting a S9 instead of a

    Touch simply because i found that i wouldnt use the wifi a lot (especially since ill use whatever i buy in the bus or subway, places where there is no wifi)

    also if i am givin a choices of many cool apps, ill be distracted from the music and videos on the actual touch, and ill probably have to delete a lot to make space for the games and apps.

  • but dont get me wrong, the touch is an excellent device, but its not geared towards me, just more to the casual people, who dont travel a lot (which is another reason the touch is no good, if i play with the games and apps, the battery will drain, also not to mention the S9's GREAT battery life).

    but many of my friends have the touch and they are very happy with it

  • im trying to decide the same thing im probably going to get the s9 because its like 80 bucks cheaper, a OLED screen, better sound quality and flash (so i can put flash animations on it)

  • For those struggling to view the vid in HD smoothly...

    1. Google "save HD youtube vids firefox"

    2. Get the Coreavc decoder and media player classic set up to play h.264

  • Cover flow is useless, but on this its just a complete joke. Whoever decided to release the player with that feature in the state its in must have been insane.

    Apart from that though, its a remarkably good player.

  • how would this be compared to the I pod touch mine just broke and honestly i'm sick of seeing them everywhere i want something different if i can find better, ik the I pod has games n apps n w.e which is the only thing i found the touch has over this , will things like that be added soon( never used let alone seen a cowon anything in person) , and do u personally think i should get this over the touch or just replace my broken one with another

  • Get the S9 you wont regret it. Probably the biggest difference you'll notice is the sound quality which iPods seriously lack. Cowon makes the best sounding mp3 players out their. Since this one is flash based, all you have to do is drag and drop the music. It may be different for videos, but I dunno. I have an older Cowon iAudio 7 with 4gb. Not great for videos but for music its fantastic. Trust me, the sound quality of Cowon mp3 players will blow you away! Newegg,com has one for $220, with 16gb

  • Is it true that this pmp has the best sound quality???

  • yeah, S9 is quite nice in sound quality. it supports ogg/flac/wav/mp3. Another mp3p has suppored ogg/flac/aac/mp3/wma pretty long ago . It's p3 released lately. P3 and cowon is similar sound quality. but P3 supports DNSe3.0. so if you're in rock mode, you could feel this sound.

  • I just bought the s9 and, sounds amazing, I'm using them with koss KSC35, I finally found out what my headphones are capable of!

  • hd is so slow to load though :(

  • youtube is starting to go hd whoop !!

  • damn! It plays flac?

  • O_O

    That AMOLED display looks AMAZING!

  • Wow. "Watch in HD".

    Never seen that before.

    It's quite slow on my computer too.

  • Hey Graham,

    I what format did you upload this HD video to youtube? It's the only HD video I found here that plays without hickups. I tried exporting out of Premiere CS4 using H.264 MP4, 24fps, 1280x720, 6mbps but the video plays for like 10-15 seconds then stops, gains buffer, play and again.

    Would truly appreciate if you'd tell us the spects you used.

    Thanks so much, and happy New Year!

  • there are actually tons of HD vids on youtube

    jizz in my pants, or where the hell is matt

    for a few examples.

  • coverflow is pointless anyways.. so i don't care whether its good or bad :)

  • im pretty confident that it will be much quicker after firmware updates. judging by the processor this thing has and that there has already been an update, I dont see why they wouldnt fix all the extreme choppiness of the "g sensor" ui

  • Very well done! Anyone got an Idea what the music playing in the background is? :D

  • I think it was Aphrodite - A Break in Reality

  • what do u do if it freezes?

  • very nice man, good job :D

  • you should hard chop this video beacause you have alot of silence in between pointing out things about this player.

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