Records audio, video, voice, and radio content...Sharp photo and video display...Strong file support...Excellent EQ....Poorly designed joystick controller...Big and bulky...Mobile TV options are not available in the U.S....The A3 has fewer features?which is a good thing, since most of the Q5W's "extras" weren't well executed...This big portable media player does plenty of neat...
Editor Rating 85.0/100 Published on February 19, 2008
Transferring data onto the A3 via Windows Explorer is a pretty quick operation...A 720MB AVI file took only three minutes 18 seconds to move from PC to A3...Audio support is no less thorough, with MPEG 1 Layer 1, 2 and 3, WMA, FLAC, Ogg, AAC/AAC+, AC3, BSAC, True Audio, WavPack, G.726 and CM all good to go...The A3 has more inputs and outputs than you can shake a stick at so you...
The FM radio tuner uses your headphones' cord as an antenna, though we found that turning the device itself with the power button end up worked best for tuning in fringe stations...The A3's rechargeable battery is not removable and takes about 5 hours to charge via the AC adapter...The A3's main rivals are the Archos 605 WiFi and the Creative Zen Vision:W, and the A3...
First, the good points: The sound quality is great...I own two other mp3 players - an IRiver, which has extremely poor sound quality, and a Cowon F2 which has good sound quality, but not as good as the A3's...The "Jet effect" sound enhancement features are useless if you're using a good pair of headphones...
now that the good is out of the way here's the bad...10 band EQ, BBE, and 3d surround all sound nice, even on my super fi 5 pros...The picture was good, just about DVD quality for composite (as I was using the composite cables...
The CowonA3 is a fantastic portable media player (PMP) for the money...I am hoping I can take some of the shows I have on my DVR and transfer them onto to my A3...You can also use the A3 as a portable hard drive...The joystick design is not good...Overall it is a great player for the money...
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