Newman D20c: Does this remind you of the Cowon iAudio F2?

Edvarcl Heng | Nov 28, 2006

New user interfaces must be hard to think up. The iPod Click Wheel spawned a host of mechanized knock-offs, some viable alternatives like Creative's touch scroll and iriver's D-Click and interesting solutions like the Cowon iAudio F2's phone-like control pad. Newman must have thought it's a great idea since it grafted a version onto its D20c.

Though it already has a 80GB hard drive, the D20c accepts memory expansion cards such as SD, MMC, Memory Stick Pro, CompactFlash and xD-Picture Card, so photo bugs can transfer their images (JPEG, GIF, BMP) for storage. It also has a 2.4-inch screen with 480 x 220-pixel resolution. Video and audio format support runs XviD, MP3 and WMA. 1,999 yuan (S$394) for the 80GB version.

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