| COWON J3 16 GB Portable Media Player (Black) | 
| Brand: Cowon
Category: CE
List Price: $239.99
Buy New: $234.98
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 3,450
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 3.7 x 3.7 x 5.9
MPN: J3-16BL
Model: J3-16BL
UPC: 826487529410
EAN: 0826487529410
ASIN: B003JME32C
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | 3.3-inch, 16:9 wide AMOLED; 16 million colors; 480 x 272 resolution; ultra-portable | | • | Play all your digital entertainment: movies, TV shows, photos, and music | | • | Touch-sensitive interface | | • | Bluetooth; voice recorder with internal microphone; FM radio; TV-out supporting composite connections; built-in speaker; and standard microSD card slot | | • | Maximum 11 hours of video playback and maximum 64 hours of audio playback |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The Cowon J3 MP3 Player (16GB, Black) is one sleek music player. Along with playing your audio files the J3 also plays videos, photos, documents, and the FM radio. It also lets you record voice, the FM radio, and from external sources using the line-in. In addition to the 16GB of built-in memory the J3 also features a microSD card slot for playing and enjoying additional files. And when you want to share your video or pictures with an audience the TV-out connection lets you do just that.Other features of the J3 MP3 player include Bluetooth capabilities, G sensor technology for intuitive navigation of the 3.3" touch screen display, and a built-in dictionary, among others. And no matter if you're a PC or a Mac person you'll be able to enjoy Cowon's J3 thanks to its wide range of compatibility.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 10
 Don't Waste Your Time July 28, 2010
Kim Schultz
0 out of 13 found this review helpful
Awesome display but that's about it. Support and documentation is non-existent. I emailed Cowon a month ago with some issues and still waiting to hear back!
great media player July 25, 2010
Alexandru Nicu
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
By far the best sound quality of any portable player I've played with . On a side-by-side comparison , this little (and very light) device will leave the ipod way behind. Video quality is great as well , the amoled display has beautiful colors , but the screen is a finger print magnet. battery life as advertised , I've been watching few movies during my flight from Asia to Europe and still had some juice left when i've landed.
If we continue the comparison with the Ipod , the UI was a bit confusing initially . Nothing major, you'll quickly get used with it. That being said , the Cowon guys should get busy on it , there are quite a number of areas in need for improvement.
Overall , i'm a happy customer . Highly recommended for people willing to pay the price for solid sound quality and battery life.
 Too expensive for what it offers July 16, 2010
Hydrospheric
4 out of 12 found this review helpful
I have been looking for a replacement of my Creative Zen for a while. Based on the positive reviews on Amazon I decided to give this player a shot.
After I got the player I realized there were a couple of serious deal breakers.
1. Flimsy headphones. For a player of his price the headphones are just too cheaply made
2. The little cover over the usb port and memory card slot was very hard to open and looked like it might fall off any time
3. the non-generic usb port. Lose the cable and you will need to spend $10 on their type of usb cable.
4. Lack of apps. Sure you want it to be a mp3 and video player first and foremost, but it is not worth $239 if you compare it with other players out there.
5. The touch screen was very sluggish and unresponsive.
Thanks to Amazon's great return policy I sent it back for a refund.
 Awesome upgrade from my D2 July 2, 2010
shadowchag
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I figured it was about time to upgrade my D2 with the newest Cowon product. The J3 has lived up to essentially all my expectations.
The user interface is built much like Apple's ipod touch, with App-like thumbnails that also scroll over to utilities (with the 2.10 firmware). This more or less combats the confusion most (including me) had to complain about the D2. The buttons are quite intuitive and easy to figure out. However, the manual that comes with the J3 says essentially nothing (not a surprise... considering how much frustration I had figuring out the D2). This is sort of a setback since almost all the buttons are symbols, such as +, or X, etc. However, no one can deny how much simpler Cowon has made its UI.
The sound quality of the built-in speakers is great! (not quite awesome, but that's ok) I expected something just a bit better than that of a cell phone. However, these speakers have been so much better than that! The sound is clean and suffers little loss as compared to that of earphones. I later plugged the J3 into some other speakers and then it sounded muffled. I am not sure if this was because the built-in speakers were better or the J3 doesn't handle other speakers too well. I believe its a little of both. For those who listen to classical though, I would warn that the maximum volume of the J3 for the speakers will be more or less the needed volume. You will not be able to overcome much white noise (which I would consider an unlikely situation for those who listen to classical music anyway).
Picture quality is nice. I'm not as good at telling how good picture quality can get because that's not my thing, but I can assure you that they are decent, especially on the larger screen (from D2 anyway). The J3 takes a moment to load after sliding over the picture though, so I wouldn't consider it the ideal picture viewer. Also, if there are too many pictures per folder, you'll have to take a while finding the picture, so don't put too many in one place. Finally, make sure you upgrade your firmware to at least 2.10 before viewing pictures, b/c my J3 froze at one point while viewing pictures (which Cowon claims to have fixed in the 2.10 firmware). I pressed the reset button and everything worked out fine, but was still a little scare there.
Videos I don't really know anything about and haven't really tried. The screen is more or less the size of an itouch, so you go figure. The jetaudio system takes about four times as long to convert a video. I don't really convert videos often, so I can't tell you how good that is. I used to use SUPER for the D2, anyway, for this I can only provide some facts.
Documents I have some complaints about. I'm not sure if the J3 developers were involved in the D2, because the J3 can only certain pieces of Chinese that my D2 once was entirely fine with. Basically, the titles would all be fine, saying for example "Öйú»°" and then once you click into it, the text would all be al;skjfdoiwethwroghlhdfoawutoha (I don't know how to type gibberish, so this is the closest I can get). I always used text for lyrics. I have sent something to Cowon, still waiting for a response and hoping for a firmware upgrade. (Btw, the same thing goes for the titles of music. Works fine in the browser but unreadable once opened.) I don't know how the J3 is for other languages, but I would assume more or less the same except Korean.
The jetaudio didn't have the "default" settings but rather three users that could change settings independently. I basically took my D2 and copy pasted, otherwise (if you're not pro at this) you'll just have to test things out. I've already tweaked w/ my D2, so I can't paste the default settings here.
Don't use the J3 for games. That's all I can say. It wasn't made for games, use some other system. Otherwise you'll have plenty of complaints against the game (I wish there actually were an "s").
As a side note, the clock took me a while to figure out, and I still haven't found out how I made it work... It seemed either to be lagging or not moving, so if that happens, try switching between clock and alarm so that the changed time is not highlighted in blue anymore on the "clock" page.
Amazing Mp3 Player June 26, 2010
Owen Bryan
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have owned a number of different players before from the Ipod Nano to a Creative Zen and had two of my phones as my Mp3 player and this Cowon has been the best by far, but I never owned a Zune so i can't speak on that. I have owned the Cowon J3 so far about two weeks. Well first and stated by everyone else the sound quality is top notch and the best i ever had on a PMP. The EQs are great and you can create your own which is amazing with the BBE+ settings. Secondly videos are very nice, clear, and no lagging on the AMOLED screen. I let my friend use my Cowon while we were watching the FIFA World Cup and he forgot about the game and was just watching my videos. There was a very tiny lag once but i just went back and replayed the video and no more lag. I really like the UCI (User Created Interface) and you can use pictures you upload as the background on the homepage. Speaking of pictures its nice and clear and controls for zooming are good. Basically in terms of just music and video the Cowon J3 is the BEST in PMPs. It needs to be selling at BestBuy and Walmart as well. They also came with a new firmware update recently which added a stopwatch, a comic book viewer, changed the main menu, and improved the touch sensitivity and speed of the UI and Matrix Browser. There will be more updates. There is Bluetooth, Radio, Calculator, one game called Hunter which is ok, a Notepad and a Typist, and can read .txt files. Battery Life is the BEST. You can Record and there's a speaker but it's nothing special, but I didn't expect it to be. I use Windows Media Player, but you don't need anything. You can just drag and drop files into the folders.
Now the cons are no wifi and apps, but I personally do not use those things and I have my phone for that. You are getting a really good product, but I think the price should be lower. I so far can not find a flash game on the internet that will be compatible with the Cowon J3. I didn't get use to the controls as quickly as i would with like an Ipod, but once you get used to it its easy to use.
I'm personally giving it a 5/5, but if you like apps and wifi this is NOT FOR YOU. If you just like listening to music and watching videos occasionally I recommend this PMP. It's a great alternative to the Zune HD and Ipod Touch
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