The MP3 Players

I guess this is the most excited news in this August! The amazing iRiver U10 is going to be released on 22nd August 2005 in Korea. Together with its release, iRiver also introduces a nickname for it, thumbthing!

The recommended retail price for iRiver U10 is 286000 Won (approx US$281) for 512MB and 339000 Won (approx US$333) for 1GB. More info

{ via iRiver Korea }

We have several news about the revolutional iRiver U10. It’s finally to be available in Europe soon. The iRiver Europe has listed the U10 into its product list. Thus, it will be available very soon!

What is so special with iRiver U10?

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We did mention before that iRiver will make U10 with more capacity. But does it really exists? iMP3.net have found some clues at a Germany online store.

It is most likely that the U10 8GB will be a harddisk based player.

Why?

The flash-based U10 2GB is priced at 279 EUR (approx US$ 335). If it is flash-based, the price might be unacceptable. Besides, the 8GB version of U10 is slightly fatter than other U10. Its dimension is 69 x 47 x 21 mm, where the dimension for other U10 is 69 x 47 x 16mm. Thus, most probably its storage medium will be a 1″ micro harddisk drive!

Is it for real? I can’t confirm it. But I’ll keep you updated!

{ via iMP3.net }

The company also annouced the retail price of this model. The price tags are 24,980 Yen (approx US$224) for 512MB version and 29,980 Yen (US$269) for 1GB version. It seem reasonable for this cool babe!

{ More U10 pictures }

{ iRiver Japan }

iRiver’s booth at the 19th SEK

iRiver U10

Current firmware version is 0.63 which is quite stable on all features excepts playing flash movie.

High quality display from U10’s 2.2″ 265K Color QVGA TFT-LCD

Power button and FUN menu button on the right

Volume control button and mic of the left

Reset button, USB port and hold button at the bottom

The dock for U10 looks like a mini TV, isn’t it?

Speaker on both side of the dock.

Remote control for U10

Not enough with 1GB flash memory? DAPreview’s insider reported that its likely to have 2GB, 6GB and 8GB version too!

{ Photo by minivian and iRiver Korea via iRiverfans }