Cowon A3 Portable Multimedia Player Now Available ~ GAMES AND GADGETS

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Cowon A3 Portable Multimedia Player Now Available


Cowon has just released the successor to their A2 PMP. The Cowon A3 is a shiny new PMP that comes in 30GB and 60GB models.

Whoa! 60GB! That's a lot of storage compared with iPod Touch's 16GB model. I guess the large storage space is needed since the Cowon A3 has the capability of directly recording from external A/V devices like your TV, camcorder or VCR. The Cowon A3 also sports a 4 inch widescreen display capable of displaying a 16 million colors. The Cowon A3 supports can display the same colors as the iPod touch but its display is .5 inch larger, also, I think that the iPod touch has a screen resolution of 640x480 while the Cowon A3 has 800x480 resolution, not really much of a difference since the Cowon A3 has a larger display so naturally, it has to have a bigger screen resolution.

Another feature that the Cowon A3 has that the iPod touch lacks is an FM radio. The Cowon A3 is available at Jetmall.net for $399.99, almost the same price as the iPod touch. I think that the Cowon A3 has a lot of multimedia features compared with the iPod Touch but let's face it, the iPod touch has more style.

3 comments:

Luck said...

There are unboxed photos at gadgetholic

http://gadgetaholic.com/content/view/212/

Review to follow.

nopreceja said...

iPod Touch has resolution 480x320, not 640x480, so it is big difference in comparsion with A3`s 800x480

natalie1981 said...

Sorry. Got my specs over at CNET, it says it has a video resolution of 640 x 480.