Cowon E2 2GB review

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Verdict:

Cowon's E2 is a cheap MP3 player, but it's entirely outclassed by the competition.

Review Date: 10 Mar 2010

Price when reviewed: £30

Supplier: http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk

Reviewed By: Alan Lu

Our Rating 2 stars out of 5

Review
Specs

Details
Part Code	IAUDIOE2-4GB
Review Date	10 Mar 2010
Price	£30
Rating
Headphone Rating

Hardware
Capacity	2.00GB
Formatted capacity	1.82GB
Interface	USB2
Storage medium	flash memory
Battery and charge options	Lithium Polymer, USB
Size	27x8x63mm
Weight	16g

Features
Device has screen?
Native resolution	N/A
Memory card support	none
FM Radio
Audio record options	none
Video record options	N/A
Supplied with	headphones, USB adaptor

Test Results
Tested battery life (MP3 playback)	10h 36m
500MB transfer time	3m 19s
Audio MP3 playback
Audio WMA playback
Audio WMA-DRM playback
Audio AAC playback
Audio Protected AAC playback
Audio OGG playback
Audio WAV playback
Audio Audible playback
Image BMP support
Image JPEG support
Image TIFF support
Video MPEG-4 AVI playback
Video MPEG-4 MP4 playback
Video WMV playback
Video MPEG-1 playback
Video MPEG-2 playback
Video MPEG-2 VOB playback
Video MPEG-4 DivX/XviD support
Video H.264 support
Video MPEG-4 MP3 audio support
Video MPEG-4 AAC audio support
Download compatibility	none

Buying Information
Price per MB	1.5p
Warranty	one year RTB
Supplier	http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk
Details	www.cowonglobal.com

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User comments

horrible review

"We were unimpressed with the sound quality of the bundled earphones."
what exactly are we reviewing here? the earphones or the player?
u guys are saying the sound quality is crap from testing just one or two pairs of earphones. How many earphones have you tested this with? the earphones come with packaged with something so cheap and u expect top grade performance with them. everyone knows COWON's sound quality is far superior to Apple's ipods.

The player has a ring instead of a clip, and you say this is bad, but theres actually an optional clip which can be attatched to the ring on COWON's website

For £6 you can get SanDisk's Sansa Clip+ which is 4GB, but for that u can also get 4GB model of this. WOW did you know that?

this review has no depth why are on on first page of google search for cowon e2?

By skbbb on 22 May 2011

Wouldn't be suprised if the review was paid by apple

I just wouldn't listen to the review above. This player is really good i would say its 4 stars.

The paragraph about the headphones is right, they are rubbish. If you place some good headphones in the sound quality is excellent. I bought this as i have recently got a lot of classical .FLAC which my MP3 can't play so i bought this and i am not disappointed.

The fact it doesn't have a clip isn't the biggest problem in the would and i wouldn't really expect playlists on device for so few songs. It is true it doesn't tell the name of the track but as i have a brain i can normally tell which track it is in a few seconds and in addition i don't really want it saying "sonata No.14 in C sharp minor, Moonlight , Adagio attacca" every time i listen to that song.

By chris2618 on 1 Sep 2011

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