Cowon announced a portable media player (PMP) with a haptic user interface, vibrating to give the illusion of physical button presses. The "P5" runs Windows CE 5.0, has a five-inch touchscreen with 800 x 480 resolution, and offers 40GB, 60GB, or 80GB of storage, says Cowon. The newly refined P5 represents Cowon's second generation of Windows CE 5.0-based PMPs. Previously, the company used Linux for its PMPs, such as the A2, but adopted the Microsoft operating system last year in the Q5W, seen at right. Like the Q5W, the P5 once again uses RMI's Alchemy Au1250 processor, but thanks to a revised version of the processor shipped in January by RMI, clock speed has gone up from 600MHz to 700MHz. The device includes 128MB of RAM and 256MB of flash storage, plus a buyer's choice of 40GB, 60GB, or 80GB hard drives. The Cowon P5...
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