Yesterday brought the first of what is surely to be many, many 1-inch drive DAP announcements, and today South Korean i-Bead prepared the launch of their i-Bead 1000, some pretty stiff competition to the Kinzo. Though it’s only got a 1.5 GB drive (compared to Kinzo’s 2.2GB), it does play MP3/WMA/ASF/WAV/Ogg, displays BMP/JPEG images on its 128 x 128 pixel 65,000 color screen, has USB 2.0, an FM tuner, digital voice recorder, line-in encoder, 10-hour Li-polymer battery, playlists, text viewer, and is a bit smaller (3.6 x 1.6 x 0.7 inches), phew. Which is all really nice, because it’s going to need some amazing features to outshine that awful, awful name it’s got
South-Korean i-Bead has aquired a very decent reputation with their pendrive range (i-Bead1xx/2xx/3xx) and now they're moving on towards our territory: the i-Bead 1000 will be a micro-HDD based player with 1.5GB on-board. More interesting would be the 65k colour screen, pretty unique for such a small device.
Capacity: micro-HDD 1.5GB USB 2.0 Supports MP3 (VBR), WMA, ASF, WAV,Ogg BMP, JPEG Dimensions: 93 x 42 x 17.9mm Weight: 100 grammes LCD: 128 x 128 px 65k color screen FM tuner + recorder Line-in encoder Battery: Built-in rechargeable Li-polymer battery Battery life per charge : 10 hrs Lyric support SRS WoW Supports playlists Text viewer
Alltogether, an interesting player because of the fact that it will very likely make it to Europe and the USA. i-Bead's products have always been of considerable quality, when compared to less-wellknown Asian companies, so it's a good thing they've decided to ship this unit worldwide. No release dates have been set, though.
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