Cowon iAudio 7 Flash MP3 player announced

The Cowon iAudio 7--same great looks as the iAudio 6, now with Flash memory and an incredibly long battery life.

(Credit: Cowon America, Inc.)

One of our favorite MP3 players is getting an upgrade. Cowon announced the iAudio 7 today in Korea, updating their micro-drive iAudio 6 player to a lighter, leaner flash-based player. The update includes a significant jump in battery life, from 20 hours to a remarkable 60 hours. The iAudio 6 supports standard audio formats such as MP3, AAC, WMA, ASF, WAV, and even beloved (yet rarely supported) formats such as OGG and FLAC. It looks as though many of the great features of its predecessor have been maintained, including line-in recording, voice recording, video playback, BBE sound enhancer, and its unique touch-scroll interface.

Korea will see the player mid-July, unveiled in 4GB and 8GB capacities, and priced at $182 and $246, respectively. No word on whether this will ever reach the U.S., however.

(via AkihabaraNews)

[ssjmichael]

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Dear Donald,

Please give credit to where you got that image from. I cropped that image being used for my newspost at DAPreview. It's so obviously my image because there was Korean text on the site which I cleared away. The sizing is nearly exact as well so I know you got it from my site. Please stop taking images from other sites without giving credit from where you got the news from.

Here is the news I'm talking about: http://www.dapreview.net/comment.php?comment.news.3987

Thanks,

Michael
DAPreview.net

[audiodonald]

Not true, Michael.

Michael, I love your site, but honestly I didn't even see your coverage this morning. The photo was taken off the Cowon Korea site (just like yours), and had the text cropped out (just like yours) using the magic of the Windows Paint accessory application. If they're the same dimensions, it's probably due to the fact cropping out the text would necessarily make them the same dimensions. I would be mad too if I thought someone stole my work without crediting me, but that's not the case here.