14 DAY TRIAL // NHC's latest PMP looks nice but doesn't stand up from the crowded place where the full-featured players roam. However, the ADY-30512 "Muvia" PMP sports only 512 MB of internal memory, and it is not the trendy flash type, a little 2.5-inch QVGA screen, and supports MPEG, MOV, AVI, ASF, DivX and WMV codecs. Not enough, and quite expensive, as it can be purchased at about $250.
Muvia is only 0.75 inches thick and can playback music for up to 12 hours, because of an enhanced battery. It also comes with a SD card extension, a not so good USB 1.1 interface and that's all.
Kingston's K-PEX PMP though, is quite a catch, coming in a slim design (3.7 x 1.8 x .57-inches) and being also lightweight (2.2 ounces), as it enables the users to watch videos, listen to music, play video games and store/view photographs.
"K-PEX allows us to leverage our reputation in the memory business while maximizing established relationships with NAND suppliers which ultimately results in a high quality, multi-functional multimedia player for consumers," said Jean Wong, Flash product manager, Kingston. "By adding an expandable card slot to the K-PEX, we offer today's consumer a high quality product with the flexibility to expand media libraries at an affordable price," Wong added.
Kingston's PMP comes with an LCD screen and two versions of memory capacity - either of 1 GB or 2 GB, providing a miniSD slot for music, video or photographs easy transfer and is compatible with most of the popular formats including MP3, WMA, OGG and WAV audio, MPEG 1&2, AVI, WMV and ASF video, JPEG image formats, and TXT documents.
K-PEX will come with a full-featured kit that consists of an USB 2.0 cable, USB host cable, line-in cable, earphones, transcoder software CD, protective cover, lanyard, comprehensive user manual, and quick start guide. Furthermore, Kingston will ship the first 4k 2GB players with a Free Kingston miniSD card.