Cowon D2 iAudio Review:

The iAudio Cowon D2 8GB Video, Photo and MP3 Portable Player can play music up to 52 hours and movie up to 10 hours. iAudio Cowon D2 8GB is an ultra-stylish and feature filled miniature PMP. Its 2.5″ LCD touchscreen produces an ultra-sharp picture that’s perfect for viewing movies and pictures and its small size makes it more convenient for the road than larger portable media devices. The Cowon D2 iAudio has a built-in FM tuner as well as support for MP3, WMA, OGG WAV, APE and FLAC Codecs.

Take your media everywhere with the versatile iAudio Cowon D2 8GB Portable Media Player. Featuring a 2.5-inch LCD touchscreen, wide video and audio file format support, audio recording via internal microphone or line-in jack, FM radio, clock/alarm, TV output, and more, all in an ultra-portable package.

Compact Size. Jumbo View.
The iAudio Cowon D2’s touch-sensitive, 16-million color 24-bit LCD 2.5″ LCD screen maximizes your viewing experience. Enjoy finer details and richer colors from your movies and images. Also, sharing memories with your loved ones has never been easier. Watch it, read it, view it on your big screen TV or high-resolution monitor using the TV output.

Cowon D2 - Touch screen interface.
Use the Cowon D2’s stylus touchpen for navigating your player’s contents. It also doubles as a kickstand for extended viewing. The “Virtual Click” overlay navigation function lets you enjoy the convenience of navigating through the other contents in your player while watching video. Detailed information such as file size, pixel, format can be viewed while browsing through files. The direct searching feature allows you to move instantly to the position you’ve clicked on from the progress bar while you’re playing music or movies.

Cowon D2 - Format Freedom
Don’t limit yourself. The Cowon D2 will play MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC, APE and WAV file formats. ID3 support lets you browse your files by artists, genres, and albums. Use the screen to view lyrics while listening to your favorite tunes. Enhance your experience with customizable EQ, bass boost, and stereo effects. The MP Enhance feature compensates for sound quality lost in compression. Cowon’s JetAudio VX software is used to create high-compression files for quality playback on COWON D2, and use Jetshell to play and manage your multimedia library

Plenty of Room
In addition to the on-board 4 GB of storage, the Cowon D2 supports SD, MMC, and MMC-plus flash memory via the built-in SD card slot. You will never run out of memory. Transfer files freely from/to other digital devices such as digital camera, PDA, and more.

Cowon D2 - Hours of Power
The Cowon D2’s rechargeable battery provides up to 10 hours of video, and up to 52 hours of music on a single charge. Wherever you go, free yourself from worrying about interruption of your music. The Cowon D2 can be charged via USB cable or standard wall adaptor.

Cowon D2 Recording Features
The built-in microphone optimized for voice recording can be used to easily record meetings and lectures. Line-in recording capability allows recording of sound output from CDP, MD, TV and other playback devices. Use the clock to schedule recording of FM Radio.

Take Your Data, Too
COWON D2 is automatically recognized as a removable disk when you connect it to your PC via the USB cable. USB 2.0 that supports transmission of max. 40 Mbps speed.

Cowon D2 iAudio User Said:

After much researching, I purchased the Cowon D2 4gb player. My main requirements were: 1) a player that had terrific sound, 2) a player that had long battery life, 3) a player that played videos well, 4) a player that had expandable memory, and 5) a player that was in the $200-$300 price range. The Cowon D2 excels in all of these categories, and even with an 8gb card (giving me 12gigs of memory), I spent less than $300. I agree completely with those users that find the Apple products easier to use out of the box; moreover, the Cowon does not have the UI (especially the coverflow) of the Itouch. However, despite this, the Cowon is not difficult to learn by just using it, and I consider myself a novice when it comes to electronic devices. (The manual that accompanies the product only gives the basic functions anyway.)

First and foremost, the Cowon D2 sounds amazing. I have compared it to several players (the Apple iPhone, the Archos 605 and the Zune 80gb second generation.) The Cowon simply blows away the competition. I set all of the players to a neutral setting (no eq or special effects on), and played them all through my Sennheiser HD-595 headphones. The Cowon had a better soundstage, better stereo separation, better highs and lows and better detail.

The Cowon gives me over 50 hours of battery life when playing audio files only. If I only play videos, I am able to get about 12-15 hours. These results are much better than the competition.

The Cowon D2 plays videos once you have converted them. (I convert my videos to avi files, and the Cowon does just fine.) You can use the jet audio conversion program that comes with the player or other conversion programs, such as dvdClonemobile. My only criticism here is that the screen is 2.5″ measured diagonally, which puts some strain on my eyes if I watch videos longer than an hour. This issue is probably very subjective; it depends in large part on your eyesight. However, having said this, the quality of the videos is excellent (the resoultion is good and the colors are vibrant.)

The ability to expand the memory of the Cowon D2 is a huge plus for me. My Iphone cannot do this, and as memory cards get larger, the Cowon D2 will soon have 20gigs of flash memory. (I should mention that using an external memory card does not adversely affect the player’s responsiveness at all.)

The Cowon D2 is a great value in light of the features that come with the player. I actually paid close to $200 for the player, and I notice now that it costs $160.00 on Amazon. (Recently, I saw it as low as $150.00.)

There is simply no player on the market that equals the Cowon D2. I highly recommend its purchase.

—– By Maclen

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