Cowon released their newest MP3 player S9 on December 9, 2008 which have 3.3 inch AMOLED touch screen display (16 million colors in 480×272 pixels resolution).

Cowon S9 powered by dual-core CPU 500MHz featuring T-DMB digital television tuner, Bluetooth connection, FM radio, text/photo viewer, e-dictionary, tv-out and G-sensor accelerator. The body of S9 from cowon mp3 player has slim design with battery life time up to 55 hours for music playback, 11 hours for video playback and up to 350 hours at standby time.

Cowon iAudio S9 8GB Features

• Zoom UI: With this new totally touch screen user interface, Cowon have kept the depth of control possible with previous players, but made day-to-day operation simplicity itself. Your main functions are represented by a set of simple icons on the main screen and on entering any of these options, you’re presented with a simple list of track, or videos or photos. Text too small? Use the zoom bar and make it bigger. Not sure what a certain video file is? A looping thumbnail shows some footage from it, right there on the menu. And again, you can zoom in. The S9 features G sensor technology, so it knows which way up it’s being held. So, you can turn it on it’s side and scroll through a list of album covers, instead of a textual track list. Watching a movie, it doesn’t matter what way up you hold it, the S9 will re-format the file to display the right way up and as big as possible on the 3.3 inch - 480 x 272 pixel AMOLED screen.
• Audio: The S9 uses Cowon’s new BBE+ audio architecture. This architecture is a range of sound processes that give incredible reproduction of good quality sources and can boost the quality of low-quality sources beyond comparison.
• Video:  Well, traditionally, portable screens use LCD displays. These have a mask layer of pixels, which can change colour - filtering light from a backlight to create images. The technology is well-proven, but has some limitations. There is a lag time with the pixels changing, which can cause rapidly moving images to get slightly ‘muddy’. Also, their very design means they waste energy - they filter and cut down light output from a backlight. AMOLED works differently. It still uses individual pixels (480 x 272 in the S9) but the pixels themselves emit light and change much quicker than LCD. This means the screen is sharper, pixel for pixel, much brighter and movement is pin-sharp. Movies on the S9 are incredible - this is really the first pocket device we can wholeheartedly say we have no problem watching full length movies on. It’s bright and crisp, but not taxing on the eye as there is no ghosting or blur. The S9 can play Xvid SP/ASP and WMV9SP/MP files natively, and supports SMI subtitles. Playback time is an amazing 11 hours of continuous video!
• TV Out Functionality: The S9 has the ability (with the separately available TV-Out cables) to display the contents on a full size TV.
• Bluetooth: The S9 supports full bluetooth A2DP and AVRCP functionality. This means you can connect the player to bluetooth devices like headphones without a plug-in dongle and even use any buttons the headphones have to control the player.
• Picture Viewer: It accepts JPEG files and will resize any image for display - so you can bluetooth an image from your 8MP camera phone and the S9 will display in full 3.3 inch 16 million colour.
• FM Radio
• Document Reader: you can load text files and read them comfortably on the widescreen display - with the benefit of the Zoom UI if you need to make the text larger.
• Flash Player: A flash player, allows you to download flash games and utilities from the internet and integrate them with your player.
• Calculator
• Cowon iAudio S9 8GB MP3 Player cost £169.00

Cowon S9 will be available in 3 different capacities: 4GB (219,000 KRW), 8 GB (259,000 KRW), and 16GB (309,000 KRW).

Sony VAIO VGN-AW11M/H notebook

The VAIO P is about the thickness of a cell phone and Sony is claiming a weight of 1.8lbs, meaning it can comfortably fit into your coat pocket or easily slide inside a purse or backpack pocket. The screen may be small at 8-inches, but the unbelievable 1600 x 768 resolution will mean a lot of viewing real estate can be crammed into that small area — at the cost of very small text and icons of course. Japanese electronics giant Sony debuted a powerful, fashionable notebook computer small enough to fit in a purse or suit jacket.The Vaio P Series “lifestyle” personal computer is the size of a standard business envelope for mail and weighs a mere 1.4 pounds. “It easily fits in a purse and I know for a fact it fits in a jacket pocket,” Stan Glasgow, Head of Sony’s Operations in the United States, said as he unveiled a garnet-colored P Series Vaio in Las Vegas on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show.

FEATURES:-

• The mini-notebook has built-in Bluetooth and wireless Internet connection hardware along with global positioning satellite technology.You can be connected where ever there is a cell phone signal.
• The new VAIO P Series Lifestyle PC is around the size of an envelope and as thin as a smart mobile phone which can easily be carried in a jacket pocket or in a ladies purse while integrating all the features of a complete laptop.
• The entire system weighs around 1.4 lbs and The stylishly small Vaio has a high-resolution 8-inch LCD screen. It is priced at $900 .
• Though the model is having only 8 inch diagonally wide screen but it delivers a high-resolution of 1600 x 768 in LED backlit. So the user can experience the full web pages as well as can see full screen movies or even can work in spreadsheet or word processing soft wares with no side scrolling. This next generation model also incorporates Sony’s XBRITE-ECO™ LCD technology which produces images in true colour and razor sharp details.
• The VAIO P Series Lifestyle consumer model (VGN-P80H/W, VGN-P70H/R, G, W) features Intel Atom Z520 CPU .
• 60GB hard disk and on-board 2GB RAM.
• The model is shipped with pre-installed Windows Vista Home Basic.
  It is also equipped with IEEE802.11b/g/n and NTT DoCoMo FOMA High Speed WAN connection and Bluetooth.
• The normal battery lifetime is around 4.5 hours.

The unit is available in some eye-catching colours including garnet red, emerald green, onyx black, crystal white and classic black. The sleek system is matched with carrying cases and Bluetooth colour-coordinated mice to complete the look. Sony also claims that the keyboard is very conveniently placed so that user won’t feel any problem during typing.

Sony has expressed in press conference that P Series Lifestyle PC will be launched primarily in 33 countries including North America and Europe as well as Russia and China.

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