Cowon’s D2+ DAB impressed us with its sound quality and battery life. Unfortunately, it’s infuriating to use due to its poorly designed touchscreen and interface, and its DAB radio is too buggy to use. These faults would be easier to forgive at a lower price, but for a 4GB player £129 is just too expensive. [...]
Cowon’s i9 portable audio player is impressively light and slender, yet it has 16GB of storage and is reasonably priced. Previous Cowon players we’ve seen have had unusual controls and the i9 is no exception. The i9 has a series of touch-sensitive buttons. Unusually, the buttons for scrolling through its menus are arranged diagonally instead [...]
The Cowon E2 2GB has playback controls and a power button on its right-hand side, while the volume controls and menu button sit on its left hand side. All this is preferable to the iPod shuffle’s more minimalist controls. It makes it more flexible too, as any pair of earphones can be used with the [...]
