Pocketables is so lucky to get a marvelous iriver W7 to toy and review with. Straight out of the packaging, critics found the design to be attractive enough, albeit a tad chunky; particularly with this device, we’d say opinions on sexiness will vary widely depending on what floats your boat. Nevertheless, reviewers found the touch panel easy enough to navigate, and thankfully, the perceived audio quality was dubbed “great.”
Those interested in the video capabilities will be delighted to know that all was well on that front too, as the slew of welcome extras (FM tuner, text viewer, e-dictionary, etc.) were all praised. Now, if only this critter would show up in America, we’d have yet another solid choice when it comes to pocket-friendly media players.
iriver is always the leading PMP (Portable Media Player) manufacturers. This time, the PMP player even includes the GPS function for navigation into this little gadget. So, allow me to introduce this groovy PMP - NV Life from iriver.
Although it might look a little bit weird, there is trend on the simplified interface and product design on this GPS navigator/PMP. Similar to other gadgets in NV series, it adopts SiRF Star III GPS navigation software, and support dual SD memory cards. On one hand, you can gather more geographic information in maps, and on the other hand, you can store more and more media files for fun.
Its operating system relies on Windows CE 5.0, and include radio with FM channels and DMB Digital television broadcasting (support GPS PiP). Regarding the multimedia support, NV Life is more or less the same as a normal iriver PMP. The only disadvantage is that is the 7″ monitor with only 800×400 in term of resolution.
There are two types of NV Life for you to choose: 2GB for USD$331 and 4GB for USB$361.
How many MP3 players you have and had in the past? Let me think, I got 2 in th paste and current one at home. You may wonder why I have just a few MP3 players in my life, that’z because I always advocate for traditional CD player.
It’s already 10 years old for MP3 player. Can you imagine that? Within these 10 years of time, we pass through the era of CDs, MDs and finally to disc-less era. Below is the first MP3 player in the world, and is developed by the Korean company Saehan Informantion Systems. It is manufactured in 1998, and was known as “MPMan F10″. The storage size is only 32mb, and connects to the computers via parallel ports. It has also a tiny LCD monitor on top. Most importantly, the prize at that time was USD$250.
For you information, Compaq is the first company which implemented the hard disks into the little player in 1998, and Archos is the first company that introduce the video-playing ability into it in 2002.
