Testseek.co.uk have collected 54 expert reviews of the Cowon iAudio S9 and the average rating is 81%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Cowon iAudio S9.
January 2009
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The editors liked
Excellent screen delivers sharp
Vibrant pictures
Very good format support
Decent audio detail
Bright screen
Great audio quality
Recording facility
Stunning video from AMOLED screen. Fantastic sound quality. Excellent battery life
Superb screen bursting with colours. Audio is excellent.
Dive into the 480x272-pixel
16 million colour OLED display and you’ll never want to return to plain old LCD. Colours shimmer with life
Action glides effortlessly and shadows have rich
Deep blacks. The touch tech is responsive
Letting you skim th...
Highquality screen
Long battery life
Wide format support
Excellent audio and video quality
Impressive battery life
Some controls apart from the touchscreen interface
Easy to use menus that are also customisable
Supports video playback without reencoding
Superb sound quality
Excellent screen quality
File format support
Responsive touchscreen
Stereo Bluetooth
The editors didn't like
Slightly lazy musical delivery
No iPlayer support
Fiddly to operate
Poor touch-screen interface
Not cheap. Unintuitive interface. Confusing software. Limited storage
Looks like it's trying to be an iPod
The S9 needs to work on its vocabulary. While it’s conversant with vanilla MP3s and WMAs
It can’t speak DRM with Microsoft or any dialect of Apple’s AAC. Video isn’t much better
With the Cowon unable to understand the latest MPEG...
Published: 2014-04-10, Author: Adam , review by: uk.askmen.com
Abstract: The overall design of the COWON S9 is pretty well conceived, with an attractively curved body and eye-popping OLED screen. The COWON S9 runs a 16:9 aspect ratio, which allows for ideal widescreen pictures that the player renders at 480 x 720 pixels. COWON...
The Cowon S9 obviously brings together many advances made available over recent years in regard to reliable data storage, audio processing and perception analysis, video display, power storage and efficiency, user interface and usability, and material...
Excellent audio and video quality, Impressive battery life, Some controls apart from the touchscreen interface, Easy to use menus that are also customisable, Supports video playback without reencoding
Abstract: www.advancedmp3players.co.ukAt 3.3in across the diagonal, this screen is slightly smaller than the iPod Touchs, though its actually the same width. However, the 16:9 screen ratio will show off your movies very nicely. Its got a slightly less-detail...
Abstract: Cowons iAudio S9 bears an uncanny resemblance to Apples iPod Touch. Both are portable audio and video players that are controlled using large touchscreens. Despite this, the S9 differs from the Touch in numerous ways. It lacks many of the Touchs ...
Dive into the 480x272-pixel, 16 million colour OLED display and you’ll never want to return to plain old LCD. Colours shimmer with life, action glides effortlessly and shadows have rich, deep blacks. The touch tech is responsive, letting you skim th...
The S9 needs to work on its vocabulary. While it’s conversant with vanilla MP3s and WMAs, it can’t speak DRM with Microsoft or any dialect of Apple’s AAC. Video isn’t much better, with the Cowon unable to understand the latest MPEG...
You probably can’t afford Sony’s gorgeous OLED telly but this high-class OLED PMP is within almost anyone’s budget. Arguably the best video and audio quality of any media player today, although not the best choice if you’re sitting...
Superb sound quality; excellent screen quality; file format support; responsive touchscreen; stereo Bluetooth
User interface isn't intuitive; no AAC support
The Cowon S9 is the company's best MP3 player to date. It boasts superb sound quality, a beautiful display and great features. Its main downside, however, is its average user interface, which isn't idiot-proof by any means ...
