Fingers Crossed For Q5W

[instigator]

I'm dying to purchase a PMP. The last few weeks I started on a research trail that initially started with the Ipod Touch and has finally led me to the Q5W.

This device has everything I'm looking for - I'm just waiting for reviews which don't describe it as being "craptastic".

The Archos 605 Wifi looks good on paper, especially the 160 gig, but the user reviews have been spotty. Audio quality is especially important to me and that is something Cowon is good at.

The only other device on my list that attracts me is the Nokia N810. It sure looks/sounds sexy but storage is the issue (max 8 gig miniSD + 2 gig internal although I guess I could just keep switching cards). Not far off the Q5W price and includes GPS/bluetooth/Wifi etc.

Anyone have any experience with the N810 or its predecessor, the N800?

[cowon_viliv]

I had the same question as well.... but so far i dont' see N810 can fully replace Q5W..... N810's LCD quaility not as good as Q5W's, and for GPS, u can go youtube and search for "N810 gps" and click on the demontration video.... its GPS takes over 3 mins to get the signal.......!?!!?! And the standard navgation software has no text-to-speech feature, and the interface looks too newbie (compare to Garmin and even the Mio)......

dont get me wrong, N810 is a great wifi-device which also give me a good reason to buy..... but just can't fully replace Q5w.....[blush]

[taxxon]

simple thing: u can't compare a mobile phone to a PMP. First and foremost the music quality will be much lower, second LCD's smaller, and of course much fewer codecs are supported. Again a phone is a phone and a PMP is a PMP. Iaudiophiles don't combine these things :P

[instigator]

The N810 has no phone capability, aside from VOIP. It is a PMP/internet tablet. Audio is supposed to be decent and it runs on open source Linux so the apps will be there. Has the following codec support out of the box:

# Supported video formats: 3GP, AVI, WMV, MP4, H263, H.264, MPEG-1, MPEG-4, RV (RealVideo)
# Supported audio formats: MP3, WMA, AAC, AMR, AWB, M4A, MP2, RA (RealAudio), WAV

[instigator]

I had the same question as well.... but so far i dont' see N810 can fully replace Q5W..... N810's LCD quaility not as good as Q5W's, and for GPS, u can go youtube and search for "N810 gps" and click on the demontration video.... its GPS takes over 3 mins to get the signal.......

Yeah, saw that. Third party/open source GPS solutions should be forthcoming though.

The display is nowhere near as good as the Q5W that's for sure.

[taxxon]

oops sorry i thought u meant the Nokia N81 lol. Nevertheless the 65k color screen of the N810 is no where comparable to the brilliant 16M color screen of the Q5. And then the HDD n' stuff ;)