Product Description

A wide touch-sensitive 2.5" LCD screen maximizes you viewing experience with ease of use. Cowon D2's conventional yet highly modernized design contrasts its high profile feature set while preserving its compact form factor.Cowon D2 does not compromise features for its compact size. COWON provides the latest innovations in digital multimedia technology to provide incredible video and audio quality.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24510 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: Black
• Brand: Cowon
• Model: D2-4096BL
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.05 pounds
• Native resolution: 360 x 240
• Display size: 2.5

Features

• MP3 Player
• Photo viewer
• Movie player
• Video recorder
• Also FM radio

Amazon.com Product Description
Take your media everywhere with the versatile Cowon D2 4GB Portable Media Player. Featuring a 2.5-inch LCD touchscreen, wide video and audio file format support, audio recording via internal microphone or line-in jack, FM radio, clock/alarm, TV output, and more, all in an ultra-portable package.

A high-profile feature set in a compact form factor.

Use the TV Output for sharing your videos and images.

Compact Size. Jumbo View.
The D2's touch-sensitive, 16-million color 24-bit LCD 2.5" LCD screen maximizes your viewing experience. Enjoy finer details and richer colors from your movies and images. Also, sharing memories with your loved ones has never been easier. Watch it, read it, view it on your big screen TV or high-resolution monitor using the TV output.

Touch screen interface.
Use the D2's stylus touchpen for navigating your player's contents. It also doubles as a kickstand for extended viewing. The "Virtual Click" overlay navigation function lets you enjoy the convenience of navigating through the other contents in your player while watching video. Detailed information such as file size, pixel, format can be viewed while browsing through files. The direct searching feature allows you to move instantly to the position you've clicked on from the progress bar while you're playing music or movies.

Format Freedom
Don't limit yourself. The D2 will play MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC, APE and WAV file formats. ID3 support lets you browse your files by artists, genres, and albums. Use the screen to view lyrics while listening to your favorite tunes. Enhance your experience with customizable EQ, bass boost, and stereo effects. The MP Enhance feature compensates for sound quality lost in compression. Cowon's JetAudio VX software is used to create high-compression files for quality playback on COWON D2, and use Jetshell to play and manage your multimedia library

The stylus doubles as a stand for extended viewing.

Plenty of Room
In addition to the on-board 4 GB of storage, the D2 supports SD, MMC, and MMC-plus flash memory via the built-in SD card slot. You will never run out of memory. Transfer files freely from/to other digital devices such as digital camera, PDA, and more.

Hours of Power
The D2's rechargeable battery provides up to 10 hours of video, and up to 52 hours of music on a single charge. Wherever you go, free yourself from worrying about interruption of your music. The D2 can be charged via USB cable or standard wall adaptor.

Recording Features
The built-in microphone optimized for voice recording can be used to easily record meetings and lectures. Line-in recording capability allows recording of sound output from CDP, MD, TV and other playback devices. Use the clock to schedule recording of FM Radio.

Take Your Data, Too
COWON D2 is automatically recognized as a removable disk when you connect it to your PC via the USB cable. USB 2.0 that supports transmission of max. 40 Mbps speed.

What's in the Box
Cowon D2, Stylus, Earphones, USB Cable, AC Adapter, QuickGuide, Installation CD.

Customer Reviews

Ipod who? Zune who?
This is absolutely the best mp3 i have ever owned. What makes it the best?
1. 16 million color 2.5 LCD touchscreen.
2. Battery life is too good to be true. 52 hours audio 10hr video.
3. The best sound, it has how much tweaks, its sick. You can slowdown a song or make it sound like the chipmunks. Has BBE,Wide stereo, enhancement stereo etc.
4. The volume is sooo dam loud. I had a Zune and the volume level was at 20, the lourdest it could go. The D2 level is 50 and at 30 it sounds as high as the zune.
5. You can encode AVI video bitrate at 1.5mbps.Also have WMV which you can encode at 768kbps.
6. No need to install to transfer files, it works like a USB flash drive.
7. You can change backgrounds and if you put a black background and your text is black, you can change the text color to 20 difference colors or make you own.
8. The touchscreen is smooth and flawless. WHen playing music it tells you the info of the file. example bitrate info, Hz etc. Something that is lacking on the big boys.
9. Has tv output, also has a recorder to record conversations.
10. Can view .txt files.
11. Can view pics at very high pixels.
12. Fm tuner, you can record from the FM radio. You can set the bitrate from low to 256kbps.
13. Has a SD slot for more storage. Get a 8 gig SD for a total for 12 gig. Imagine in 2 years when they have 20 gig SD.
14. Great support, firmware updates are always available.


Plus sooo much more.

video, audio, fm radio, and photos too
Having researched portable media players such as the Cowon A2 and Toshiba Gigabeat V30 I was ready to spend considerably more than the price of the Cowon D2. The electronics store in Melbourne gave me an 8% discount off the advertised price, and I was happy to buy the item which I had never even heard of before! There was no reason to give me a discount, they have been selling well. In comparison with those larger players, the D2 has a smaller screen, and has much less memory. But, to make up for this there's an SD slot which is handy for viewing photos from my digital camera. Other features such as touch screen make this an attractive product.

The software that I got with the box includes the PDF manual (version 1.3), a program for converting video, and a browser for transferring files. I needed to upgrade the video conversion program "JetAudio" as the version on the CD did not recognise my device. The PDF manual on the CD was up to date. The date of the CD material appears to be January 2007.

The problem with this player is that you have to format video before it can be viewed - the resultant files are either AVI or MWV and you can choose a range of quality options, but it seems that regular AVI or WMV will not play unless they have been converted. Why is this a problem? Well the conversion time appears to be only slightly less than the duration of the video, in other words a fair bit of waiting around. But I am trying out different conversion options to see what works best. The speed will be improved on a faster computer with more RAM. Luckily, transfer to the device is a very quick process.

First Steps - here's what I suggest that you do:
1. Keep the plastic protective film on the screen - this will protect it.
2. Loop the stylus / stand device through the catch provided on the player.
3. Check out the forum [...]
4. Download and upgrade the firmware and JetAudio software on your D2.
5. Start converting video files using your upgraded JetAudio software.
6. Start saving your 24 favourite FM radio stations into the preset list.

Absoulutely the finest PMP for the money.
Cowon has significantly raised the bar in the PMP (Portable Media Player) market with the D2. The sound is amazing, and the 16 million (24 bit) color screen simply has to be seen to be believed.

The 74mw amplifier in the Cowon D2 provides enough power to drive even the most demanding headphones. Likewise the 5-band EQ section with each band featuring adjustable frequencies to 12db and the inner 3 bands featuring adjustable Q widths will allow music lovers to tailor their listening preferences. Most MP3/PMP players would stop there, but the D2 also offers sound shaping through technology licensed from BBE, a company that has been providing recording studios, musicians, and sound system engineers professional sound reinforcement for several years. The combination of bass enhancement, MP enhancement, stereo field enhancement, and 3D surround enhancement allow you to tailor the sound to your particular tastes. Having 10 user-assignable slots allows you to easily store these combinations that can be used with music, movies, different headphones, or even different users.

One would think that a 2.5 inch screen is just too small to watch, and I was one of those detractors, but not anymore. The 16.7 million color screen faithfully reproduces images with a crisp and clear viewing area that you quickly grow very accustomed to watching. Although you have to convert your videos to the specific size of the screen, the provided software does this with ease in a variety of formats.

Probably the best feature of the D2 is the touch-screen interface, which is well thought-out and intuitive. The interface is activated by touching the screen, and virtual buttons appear which are surprisingly easy to navigate, even for people with large fingers. However, those who want a tactile interface aren't left behind, as the three-button pad can be set to skip, pause, or rewind when placed in lock mode. MP3s tagged with embedded images will be displayed as songs are playing, which I found to be a very cool feature; I've spent several hours re-tagging my media collection with these images for the coolness factor.

The battery life on this device is amazing, almost insanely so. Cowon claims 52 hours of battery in music mode, or 10 hours in video mode. While I have not tested these to the extreme, I did watch two movies and listened to several hours of music with my battery meter only dropping one (of four) 'bars'. A note on the battery -- Cowon devotes nearly half the volume of the D2 to the internal lithium-polymer battery, which results in a "thicker" device than some others, just over 5/8 inch. This battery can be charged over USB, or using the provided A/C adaptor, which charges the batter much faster.

The Cowon D2 is expandable with an SDHC compliant slot, meaning that any SD card you have will work in this, as well as the newer high-capacity SDHC cards, which currently are available in capacities up to 8GB, with cards in 16 and 32 GB being announced. Connectivity is through a standard min-USB cable. You can operate the D2 in standard "mass storage" mode where you just drag and drop files into the folders, or you can operate this in MTP mode which is supposedly compatible with Microsoft's "Plays For Sure" program and other subscription based services. I cannot vouch for this, but I have no reason to doubt it.

I've waited for about three years to upgrade my MP3 player, waiting for the perfect player to come along; the Cowon D2 nicely fits that bill. I was looking for a player that had the following qualities (in order of importance):

1) Awesome sound
2) Standard USB interface (no specialized USB connectors)
3) Drag and Drop (no special sync software required)
4) Expandable memory using standard media (SD/CF)
5) Firmware upgradeable
6) Replaceable/standard batteries

Unfortunately this device doesn't exist, but the Cowon D2 comes pretty close; 5 out of 6 ain't bad. It will be interesting to see what products Cowon comes up with in the future.

I've spent a good deal of time telling you what I like about the D2, now I need to tell you what I don't like about it:

For such a large player, it would be nice to have the ability to create playlists. I have yet to see a truly functional set of playlists work on this player. Sure, you can browse through music by artist, album, genre, folder, etc... But since I have such an eclectic collection of audio, it would be nice to organize it in the way I want.

The included stylus/kickstand is pretty much worthless. Sure, you can navigate with your fingers, but that makes for a smudgy screen. A normal stylus makes this a bit easier, but there's no way to attach it to the device.

On a rating of 10 stars, I'd have to give this 9.5. It's not perfect, but it's as close to it as anything I've ever heard of.