Portable Media Player. X9

Cowon Systems, Inc.; Seoul

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  • Year
  • 2012 ??
  • Category
  • Sound/Video Recorder and/or Player
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 349592

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 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Transistors
  • Semiconductors present.
  • Semiconductors
  • Main principle
  • DSP, Digital Signal Processor
  • Wave bands
  • VHF incl. FM and/or UHF (see notes for details)
  • Details
  • HD or solid state memory
  • Power type and voltage
  • Storage and/or dry batteries
  • Loudspeaker
  • Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil)
  • Material
  • Plastics (no bakelite or catalin)
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: Portable Media Player. X9 - Cowon Systems, Inc.; Seoul
  • Shape
  • Very small Portable or Pocket-Set (Handheld) < 8 inch.
  • Notes

  • Cowon X9 Portable Media Player.

    Super sound & Ultimate Playback Time

    Features:

    • JetEffect 5
    • Music 110 hrs, Video 13 hrs, Sleep Mode 600 hrs
    • 16 M Colour 4.3” Touch Display
    • Music / Videos / Pictures / Documents / FM Radio / Voice Recorder / Flash Player
    • MicroSD Card Slort / Built-in Speaker / G-Sensor / TV-Out

    Available with a White or Black case.

    Reviewed by John Kahler

    It supports MP3, Ogg (with Vorbis compression anyway), FLAC, APE (Monkey’s Audio — up to High-level compression, but not “extra high” or “insane”,) and WAV files.

    Videos, it will do AVI-type video files with DivX compression and MP3 compressed audio, WMA (Windows Media Audio), WMV (Windows Media Video), and some MP4 files.

    It will show JPEG-type images, you can read plain TXT-type files, and it will also run some Macromedia / Adobe Flash animations up to version 7. I tried running one made with version 6 in the past, and it pretty much killed it, and I had to reset it. It also has a built-in calculator, stopwatch, picture drawing notepad, and a text editor up to a few hundred bytes. But it’s got a bug in it, which I actually reported to them, regarding upper case characters, as in: You can’t get them to work.

    The screen resolution is 272 × 480 pixels in the portrait orientation. It has an orientation sensor which is also used in one of the Flash-based games it has, called Hunter.

    As for the radio, it is FM only, and it has 4 region settings: Europe / China, Japan, Korea, and the USA. If you set it to Japan, it will go back to 76 MHz and up to 108 MHz. It has automatic station finding, and you can also record from the radio up to 256 kbs per second, in WMA format. You can also record from the built-in microphone or an optional line-in cable.

    There is no Bluetooth support on this model. (The earlier S9 player did have this for headphones.) It does have an expansion slot for Micro SD cards, and on your computer, it will show up as 2 different drives.

    The instructions are correct about having to eject it properly under Mac OS X, because I put my MacBook to sleep with it plugged in once, and it corrupted the file system, and I had to copy everything off, and reformat it! Ouch.
    It doesn’t seem to have a full operating system as such. It just seems to directly run the Flash-based interface, so I presume it might have some kind of ASIC specially for it. It’s also possible (somehow) to make your own interfaces for it, but I believe it’s very complex, and I don’t know what software you require for that. The internals are almost identical to the S9 player as well, in terms of what it supports, its features, and screen resolution, so I presume Cowon used similar parts.

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  • Author
  • Model page created by Gary Cowans. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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