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October 16th, 2006, 10:15 GMT · By Bogdan Solca

Cubed Music

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US welcome the funky second generation MobiBLU DAH-1500i codenamed Cube 2. The Asian makers claim it is the "the world's smallest multimedia player" and its size stands as proof: 25.4mm x 25.4mm x 25.4mm.

Although small and all that, the gadget has quite a lot of features to offer. To begin with, Cube 2 has a PlaysForSure Certificate, so you can playback downloaded content from subscription-based sites. The mini-player has support for MP3, WMA, "Protected" WMA (DRM) sound formats and it recognizes video and digital image formats, too. It comes in 1GB and 2GB flavors, which is quite remarkable for this little player.

Cube 2 offers an FM tuner, voice recording capabilities
and it is Podcast-ready. It even incorporates some latest sound technologies such as SRS WOW High Definition and TruBass Sound and sports a full color OLED mini-display. Customers can choose between Blue, Silver, Black and Pink color schemes for the player.

Here are the other features:

AUDIO FORMATS SUPPORTED: MP3 (MPEG 1/2-Layer 2/3, 16-320Kbps), WMA (Microsoft Windows Audio, 32-192Kbps), WMA DRM (Digital Rights Management), and OGG (Q1 - Q10)

VIDEO FORMATS SUPPORTED: MSV (Video Clip file format converted by provided software from WMV, MPG, and ASF Video Formats)

IMAGE FORMATS SUPPORTED: JPG and MSJ (MSJ format converted by provided software from JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG, MNG, and ICO formats)

DISPLAY: 65k Color OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode)

ENCODING: Record from FM Radio (FM Recording) and Internal Microphone (Voice Recording) into MP3 format

FM FREQUENCY .50MHz - 108.00MHz / 76.0MHz ~ 108.0MHz

AUDIO OUTPUT FREQUENCY 20Hz - 20KHz

AUDIO SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO 90dB
HEADPHONE OUTPUT POWER 16/ 15mW

PC INTERFACE: USB 2.0

DOWNLOAD SPEED: 25 Mbps

POWER SUPPLY Li-Polymer (Built-in)

BATTERY LIFE Max 10 hours (Audio). Max 5 hours (Video)

PRODUCT WEIGHT 0.63 Ounces (18 Grams)

PLAY MODES Normal, Repeat, Repeat All, Random Once, Random All, Folder Play, Repeat A-B

EQUALIZER Normal, Rock, Jazz, Classic, Pop, Live, Dance, SRS (Each EQ mode is user adjustable)

OTHER FEATURES Playlist, Resume Play, Audio Fade-in, Clock (Time) Display, Multi-language Support, Alarm, Reserved FM recording, LCD Pivot (180 degrees)

ACCESSORIES User Manual, Program CD with Video and Image Conversion Software, Necklace Style SRS Earphones, USB/Charging Cable

The 1GB version costs $100, while the 2GB is $120 and they are now available in Asia and the US.

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