Cowon S9 Curve AMOLED Touchscreen PMP US Release Pending G-Sensor, Dual Core PMP

Cowon have announced that their extremely alluring Cowon S9 Curve PMP,
which features a 3.3' 480 272 16 million color AMOLED touchscreen and
which is widely seen as going head-to-head with Apple's iPod Touch, is
set for release in the US this December.

Whilst full details Cowon's new the S9 Curve PMP are somewhat sparse at
the time of writing what is known is that the device is powered by a
dual core 500MHz processor, and that, apart from sporting an AMOLED
touchscreen display with capacitive technology - which offers more vivid
colors than standard LCD TFT - the S9 Curve PMP comes with integrated
G-Sensor allowing for gesture control and a purported battery life of
around an impressive 40 hours (in no small part thanks to the lower
power consumption of the device's AMOLED display).

Additional highlights concerning Cowon's S9 Curve PMP include an
integrated accelerometer - allowing the device to switch automatically
between landscape and portrait display modes depending on the
orientation of the device - TV out as well as Bluetooth connectivity for
wireless audio and either 8GB or 16GB capacities thought the US version
will be stripped of the T-DMB mobile TV tuner featured in the Korean
version of the S9 Curve PMP on account of lack of support in the US.

No word concerning pricing as at the time of writing though its not
unreasonable to expect Cowon to price their S9 Curve PMP extremely
competitively in relation to Apple's iPod Touch (we will, of course,
offer a heads up concerning pricing of the S9 Curve the moment this
information becomes available to us).

Certainly, if only based on the limited details we have, there's no
doubt that Cowon's S9 Curve PMP has all the hallmarks of being a serious
competitor to the Touch (dependant on unit pricing of course) but quite
whether it'll serve to draw potential purchasers of Apple's iPod Touch
across to the Cowon camp is open to speculation.

We would be interested to know what you think.

Cowon