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Cowon D2

05 May, 2007, 1:00 pm IST | by Laiq Qureshi | PMPs PMPs

The User Interface will take a little bit of getting used to. Rest assured, it’s a hassle-free process. Navigating is a piece of cake once you are well aware of where to find what.

And now to talk about why you would really shell that dough to buy the D2! The music player supports MP3, OGG, WMA, FLAC, WAV and APE. You can convert any other file format you have in mind using the bundled JetAudio software.

The music quality is awesome. What's more, the music player also displays the album artwork. I’m smitten! All the settings are easily accessible by using the options displayed at the bottom of the screen. If you want to set your own play list, you can do so by adding songs to the Dynamic Play List.

I strongly recommend shelling out some extra cash for a decent pair of head phones. The proprietary earphones that come along with the player suck! There is the usual bunch of presets you can select, or arrange the frequencies as per your taste using the equalizer. There are other surplus functions like BBE, Mach2Bass, 3D surround, Stereo enhancer—a waste of time!!

The video quality is good too. I had a nice time watching an episode of South Park and a whole Fleetwood Mac concert. As far as music and pictures are concerned, you can just drag and drop them. But playing most videos will need you to go through the painful conversion spree with one of their proprietary software. A major hassle! Why, when Creative Zen allows you to simply copy and paste. Very bad!! Apart from this it also reads text files.

FM radio reception is in all honesty quite good too, and the recorder has a roomy reception quality.

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Tags: Cowon D2 , PMP , Portable Multimedia Player

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