PC Magazine have published their review of the Cowon Q5W multimedia player. ‘At close to a pound and measuring 3.5 by 5.5 by 0.8 inches (HWD), the Q5W is positively bulky, and far from pocket-friendly. Cowon put two USB connections (one standard, one mini) on the device for loading media, as well as a built-in speaker and a mic. An I/O port on the bottom panel connects to an A/V-out cable (included, but, oddly, not the cable pictured in the manual). There's also a remote that controls many of the device's functions. These inclusions are thoughtful, but the real meat is in the player itself, and boy, is it a pain to use!
Part of the problem here is that, though it's marketed as a personal media player, the Q5W is also trying to be a PDA, and even a GPS device, all at the same time. And this approach isn't very successful. When I saw that the device runs Windows CE 5.0—essentially a stripped-down version of Windows Mobile for phones—I tracked down Sascha Segan, our lead analyst for cell phones and PDAs, and asked him to spend some time playing with the Q5W. His thoughts?’
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