Report: Cowon Q5W Not An Archos-Killer

Cowon’s Q5W personal media player, as fully-featured as the best Archos but less than half the weight, gets a kick in the nuts from its first published review. Gadgetaholic says that for all the fancy features, the touchscreen display is finicky and stylus-dependent, and that some formats glitch when playing. What does this tell us? […]

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Cowon's Q5W personal media player, as fully-featured as the best Archos but less than half the weight, gets a kick in the nuts from its first published review.

Gadgetaholic says that for all the fancy features, the touchscreen display is finicky and stylus-dependent, and that some formats glitch when playing.

What does this tell us? It tells us that specifications are meaningless without interfaces. A shell GUI running as an app under Windows CE 5? What on Earth were they thinking?

Source [Gadgetaholic via Engadget]