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Hello everyone,
Are you excited about the new Cowon Q5? I sure am. In a quest to find more information about this PMP and to aid in the constant flow of questions about it, below is a comprehensive topic of what we currently know about the US/Europe version of the Q5 based on the current Korean version that was released in late May, as well as from online sources and official Cowon press releases. The topic also includes some of the speculations and predictions about the player. This topic has been designed to collect and pool the information gathered by members of the iAudiophile forums in a simple, one-paged thread. This page is still under construction! Last Update: August 27th, 2007 Text marked as red classifies information that is part of speculation and has not been confirmed or backed up at least 3 different sources.COWON Q5 ![]() The COWON Q5, a premium portable multimedia player (PMP), has an ultra high quality 5-inch widescreen LCD display with 16 million colors, and it is a next generation convergence PMP that not only can play movie clips and music but also has features including GPS navigation with an embedded Mando Mappy MXG, terrestrial DMB, encyclopedia Brittanica, and external wireless LAN support functions. The unit features a simple yet luxurious black metal body and has a wing click GUI to remove buttons from the front side. Built with user convenience in mind, its compact design is outlined with a slim wrap around the screen. The COWON Q5 runs the Windows CE 5.0 Professional OS powered by the AMD Alchemy 500Mhz CPU from AMD, and is not only capable of being a highly sensitive DMB receiver, but is also capable of playing various files with video format support that includes AVI (Divx, Xvid), ASF, WMV 7/8/9 and MPG, along with audio format support for MP3, OGG, WMA, WAV, ASF, and FLAC (a lossless compression codec). Moreover, it supports popular image file formats such as JPG, BMP, PNG and more. Through strong earphone output at 68mW, people can experience COWON's uniquely subtle and strong Jet effects including BBE, Mach3Bass, MP Enhance, 3D Surround, Bass, and Treble, as well as listening with the external 2 watt stereo speaker. The COWON Q5 includes Encyclopedia Britannica to allow users to easily search useful information. The Korean version of the Q5 also includes an e-dictionary combining YBM Sisa's e4u English to Korean and Korean to English dictionary, Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, and a Korean language dictionary. It is speculated that the US/Europe version of player will include some form of a dictionary as well (it is unknown at this time which dictionary it will be, if any). The COWON Q5 has strengthened additional features with support for ManView that enables image viewing without extracting compressed files and ChekView, a text viewer, that facilitates viewing Word and Excel documents for presentations with the WinCE based Office Viewer. Besides the wired/wireless remote control, head set, TV output, DMB recording and USB host support, it also includes basic functions such as voice recording, FM radio and more. With its UCI (User Created Interface), users can decorate it with personalized GUIs to express themselves directly through the device. The COWON Q5 will be available in two HDD capacity variations, 40GB and 60GB. Its internal battery is capable of up to 13 hours of audio playback and 7 hours of continuous video or terrestrial DMB playback. GPS Navigation: The COWON Q5 comes with an add-on Navigation Package which has an added navigation cradle with a highly sensitive GPS receiving module and the premiere Korean high resolution mapping solution - Mando Mappy MXG. At this time (June 2007), it is speculated that the the GPS Navigation features will not be included in the US/Europe version of the player. It is unknown whether or not these feature will be removed entirely, or replaced with something else. There is some speculation that the US version will use GPS Car Navigation (Optional) from Tele Atlas premium digital map data of the continental United States featuring text-to-speech technology and 11 million POIs (points-of-interest). USB Hosts and other Plug-in Devices: The COWON Q5 is scheduled to support various USB based communication services. It is unknown whether or not the Q5 will support plugin USB storage hosts. WIFI & Bluetooth: The WIFI capabilities of the Q5 are still unknown. It isn't clear whether or not the WIFI will be built-in or come separately as a USB dongle. The Korean version of the player (based on pictures on the official website) currently uses a WIFI dongle. TV Receiver: The US/Europe version of the Q5 will not come with DMB or any TV Receiver. A lot of people are hoping that the TV receiver will be replaced by a built-in version of WIFI. Release date: The Cowon Q5 was released in Korea in mid-May 2007 and it has been confirmed that the US and Europe some be released some time in late summer of 2007. Based on numerous sources and contact with Cowon directly, it is safe to say that the Q5 will be available in US and Europe by the end of September. www.mygadget.dk already has the Q5 available for pre-order and says it will ship October 1st. Specifications: Product Specifications Software Specifications Music PlayerOther Data Boot Time: 20-25 seconds approx. Sources: English: http://eng.cowon.net/board/bbs_press...=E03&number=90 http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/19/c...5-pmp-unboxing http://www.itechnews.net/2007/01/22/...-pmp-on-video/ http://www.pmptoday.com/2007/05/19/c...rean-unboxing/ http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pmp/cowon...ain-250553.php http://reviews.cnet.com/Cowon_Q5/466...7-6683270.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowon#Cowon_Q5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzCzkMqzKYI Korean: http://board.cowon.com/zeroboard/zbo...no=100&bmenu=B http://board.cowon.com/zeroboard/zbo...no=105&bmenu=B http://board.cowon.com/zeroboard/zbo...=C&category=37 http://board.cowon.com/zeroboard/zbo...=C&category=37 http://shop.cowon.com/products/ishop...ode=1178860234 http://product.cowon.com/product/product_Q5_feature.php http://board.cowon.com/zeroboard/zbo...10623&bmenu=C# http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0dGbVMhr9g http://www.dailymotion.com/omjeremy/video/3524717 Other: http://mygadget.dk/multimedie_afspil...gb_114_da.html
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Limey
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Eastbourne > England
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Good job, very nicely written too.
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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wow, globex, hats off to this post!
![]() Excellent job, thanks a lot for your effort! |
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Ancient Cranky Technocrat
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Yep, good job pulling the data together. I'm not impressed with the runtime though - this dude has 2x the battery capacity of an X5L (roughly) and only about 1/3rd the run time (for audio). The weight is pretty significant too. Definitely not for me. 8>.
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a2/d2er
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Melbourne
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Until the Us and Eur version is released its all speculation
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That's not necessarily true. A lot of the things we know for certain already just because of the nature of the player. And we can make some pretty good predictions about the rest of it.
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Zürich
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Hi at all
I've been watching the Q5 for months now and it looks to me like the perfect video player. I had an A2 and even if the display was only 4" I enjoyed it a lot. Mostly because of the long battery life for movies. I know a guy from Korea, from who I bouht 1.5 years ago an I-station V43. I absolutely felled in love with the touchscreen. So my question is, does anybody know if the Q5 can be switched to English language? If so I would get one immediatly as I'm searching for a nice video player for the holidays. So if anyone knows it please let me know. |
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a2/d2er
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Melbourne
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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i'm guessing because it's windows CE, you will have to reinstall an english windows CE into the device...but i will confirm once i get the player!
I was just browsing through the manual and it says that you must upgrade WinCE with a pack (?) to WinCE Professional Plus to enable the office viewer. Out of the box, the office viewere (ie for .doc, .ppt, excel files) is not included. and it seems that you will be able to install various programs suitable for winCE but im getting confused between this whole WINCE and Windows Mobile thing... ? Last edited by calcheese; 06-22-2007 at 19:04. |
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Do we know if it has a true line out? (not on the dock) so it can be used with a portable amp?
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I'm not sure. You might want to take a look at these images:
http://download.cowon.com/review/COW...view_q5_09.jpg http://download.cowon.com/review/COW...view_q5_10.jpg
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: The Poconos, USA
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Anyone know what sort of TV output it will have...S-video?..Component?..HDMI?...or just a composite?
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Looking at : http://download.cowon.com/review/COW...view_q5_05.jpg
I think it's S-video. However, I don't know Korean so I can't confirm it based on the text.
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