The S9 has a lot of things going for it -- the 2+ day battery life, gorgeous AMOLED screen, impeccable audio quality and featherlight design (just to name a few) -- but ..., we simply expected more. ...we're not entirely sure the small bump in overall sound quality is enough to warrant a...
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At $240 for 16GB, maybe you thought that the Cowon S9 would be a tempting device to play your Bittorrent collection of movies without conversions. But given limitations with resolutions/format, a disappointing UI and the subpar build, it's hard to know why the S9 makes a solid alternative to...
Read the full review →The Cowon S9 is a sexy-looking gadget with exceptional audio and video quality, but its construction quality and user interface pale in comparison to the competition.
Read the full review →The S9 is designed to resemble the iPod touch—with a touch screen and its own version of Cover Flow—but the player lacks the grace and Wi-Fi connectivity necessary to be a true rival.
Read the full review →Pros * Great Sound Quality * Capacitive touch screen * Great AMOLED screen * Native Xvid Support * BBE on video Cons * No H.264 support * No expansion slot * Not so standard 20-pin connection * Audio in and Video out cables sold separately * No multi-touch
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Molly
first and foremost, the Cowon S9 is a portable audio player. but it does a lot more than just that. the sound quality is just superb, beyond anything the competition has to offer. pretty much the same goes for the display (AMOLED is the way to go, beats backlight LCD hands down). 55/11 hours of...
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longcipher
I don't buy gadgets when they are released - I wait a while and read reviews + user forums. I bought the S9 when the kinks appeared to be worked out and I couldn't be happier. I wanted something small for the train that could play my downloaded DivX/xVid files without conversion. The...
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stevenswall
The Cowon S9, when it was released, was incredibly competitive on a hardware level: The screen, hardware controlls, and battery life were untouchable. After several firmware updates and some time for the iAudiophile community to develop custom interfaces, I find it now to be my favorite portable...
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NemetFox
After reading a few reviews myself, I decided to pick up the (lesser known 4gig model) Cowon S9 media player, billed on Cowon's website as "Ultimate MP3." On that point, I have to agree. It supports every single type of music in my collection (though I've got no DRM protected...
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sonamor
This was one of my favourites mp3 players. The battery was the greatest ever seen in any gadget I own. Its a shame that the screen breaked while I was sleeping in a trip [i don't even know how it breaked :/ ] . Sound quality was the best ever seen in any of my mp3 player although in the other...
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