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Cowon S9 16 GB Video MP3 Player with Touchscreen - Chrome/Black (Disc 15%)

Posted by supreme On July - 26 - 2009

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The Cowon S9 is available in 8GB and 16GB capacities, but this time I’ll review for the 16GB. This is the perfect way to enjoy favorite movies, TV shows, photos, and music on the go. The Cowon S9 has a good audio quality and OLED touch-screen display. The clear plastic that covers the face of the S9 is inordinately scratch-resistant. The S9’s minus point are the thin construction and the plastic play button lodged into the top edge of the screen. The play button and a track-skip switch have been duplicated by the onscreen playback controls.

The track skip switch and a volume switch are placed on the top edge of the player. The power hold switch, headphone jack, and a 20-pin USB jack are placed at the bottom of the S9. The S9 use a lightening-fast capacitive touch and its vibrant 3.3 inch widescreen touchscreen display is made from OLED instead of conventional LCD. The S9’s 480×272 OLED display has a great quality, the colors are vibrant, contrast is excellent, and there isn’t a single viewing angle that doesn’t look great.

The Cowon S9 has plenty of features such as Bluetooth audio, FM radio, voice recording, radio recording, BBE+ sound enhancement, a text reader, and a Flash media player that begs for games. The S9 offers support for MP3, WMA, FLAC, OGG, WAV, and APE and the collections can be sorted by both ID3 attributes (artist, album, genre) or folder tree. The music-playback screen includes album art, track controls, EQ settings, file information, and options for bookmarking songs or adding them to an on-the-go playlist. A tilt sensor inside the S9 changes the music-playback screen to an album browser when the device is turned on its side. The S9 has ability to connect in MSC and MTP modes, so it can be used to a Mac and PC.

The S9 handles MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, and WMV formats, but lacks support for the h.264 files common to video podcasts and popular video encoders such as Handbrake. Most files need to be formatted at 480×272. The S9 lets users delete videos directly from the device and also bookmarks playback automatically. Cowon includes MyPodder software which can be used to make short work of pulling down new podcast episodes. Unfortunately the h.264 support makes watching video podcasts a tricky proposition.

The S9’s text viewer is packed with features such as a zoom function, auto-scroll, selectable background colors, and file bookmarking. The S9’s voice-recording, FM-recording, and line-input-recording features all record to the WMA format, with a selectable range of resolutions (32, 64, 80, 96, 128, 256 Kbps). The FM radio built into the Cowon S9 offers a large, virtual dial for tuning in stations, as well as an auto-preset feature, selectable world radio bands, and a mono-stereo switch. Radio reception is decent, and the ability to record broadcasts directly to WMA files is a plus.

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The BBE+ suite of audio-enhancement effects included on the S9 improves upon the already excellent sound quality of the Cowon D2 and iAudio 7. Thirty sound presets are included on the S9, including four user-defined presets that allow you to tailor the S9’s 5-band EQ, stereo enhancement, and BBE+ effects to suit your taste. The S9’s video quality is superb: the colors are rich, frame rates are fluid, and there isn’t a single angle on the screen that makes for poor viewing. Our only complaint about the S9’s video player is file compatibility. The omission of h.264 video support makes us wince a little, and the S9’s resolution restrictions have more in common with the iPod than file-friendly products.

Plus :

The Cowon S9 is designed very attractive and eye catching. Cowon’s S9 portable media player offers a gorgeous vibrant OLED touch-screen display, long battery life, and plenty useful features such as Bluetooth audio, voice recording, FM radio, Flash media support, audio and video playback, a photo viewer, and a text reader.

Minus :

The Cowon S9 lacks the plastic construction, Wi-Fi, memory expansion, and a standard USB port.