Ramos tries classing it up with the RM970 PMP
We've definitely seen some questionable designs from Ramos (and some straight-up KIRFs as well), but it appears as though the company's latest PMP, the RM970, might have actually been drawn up by someone living in this decade. The 2GB device features a 3-inch, 480 x 272 screen, a 200MHz ARM7 processor backed up by a 200MHz Rockchips DSP, and an iPod-aping split-screen menu system. Those dual 200MHz chips enable some pretty decent format support -- the RM970 supports MP3, WAV, WMA, Ogg, FLAC, AAC, APE, MPEG4, Real and AVI out of the box, and it appears that NES emulation will also be included. Of course, there's no word on price or availability outside of Asia, but here's hoping Ramos keeps its standards this high in the future.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Matthew Hilario @ Nov 28th 2007 4:40PM
by far the best-looking kirf device ramos has made by far.
Matthew Hilario @ Nov 28th 2007 4:41PM
i take it back, it deserves respect i can't find anything that it supposedly copies..visually.
Eriloman @ Nov 28th 2007 10:52PM
There are more pictures of the player and the UI, seems like Pcpop.com got their hands on it and did a full review
http://www.mp4nation.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3861#3861
BigDaddyM @ Nov 28th 2007 4:42PM
iPod-aping split-screen menu system?
You guys need to get out more.
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Rob @ Nov 28th 2007 4:44PM
That's one of the best looking pmp's around. Although I own several iPods, I've never been impressed by their looks. Flame me all you want. But, the iPod and Zune are fugly looking pmp's.
Matthew Hilario @ Nov 28th 2007 5:04PM
agree. thats why i had to take back my partial burn. i would rock this.
Alex McKee @ Nov 28th 2007 5:10PM
Well, it's apparently playing Corinne Baily Rae's Put Your Records On, but it has a U2 album cover. Questionable, considering the iPod touch used Put Your Records On on its early boxes.
Hmm....
Alex McKee @ Nov 28th 2007 5:10PM
Well, it's apparently playing Corinne Baily Rae's Put Your Records On, but it has a U2 album cover. Questionable, considering the iPod touch used Put Your Records On on its early boxes.
Hmm....
Alex McKee @ Nov 28th 2007 5:10PM
Oops, double post :)
Bob @ Nov 28th 2007 5:27PM
Maybe they accidentally sync'd it with the new Zune software. :)
JJ @ Nov 28th 2007 5:16PM
2GB and PMP in the same sentence?!? WTF?
bradwjensen @ Nov 28th 2007 5:38PM
Now thats format support!!! :)
topplehat @ Nov 28th 2007 5:47PM
Kinda funny, "U2 by U2" is a book, not an album.
m16 @ Nov 28th 2007 5:59PM
2gb?! weak.
I do like the ogg and flac support though. Just make it 2tb.
mushrooshi @ Nov 28th 2007 6:26PM
Wow...
the site, MP4user...
Wow...
They obviously have no sense of quality.
kev @ Nov 28th 2007 7:11PM
To put this into perspective, the GBA has an 8MHz ARM7, and the NDS a 16MHz ARM7 (clocks back down to 8 for GBA mode). That thing has plenty of muscle.
Alex McKee @ Nov 28th 2007 8:57PM
To also put this into perspective, the iPod touch has a (depending on who you believe) either a 444 Mhz ARM processor or a 533 Mhz Arm processor. Not really all that powerful. (Just for reference, the PSP has an enabled clock of 222, capability to do 333.)
master_sword @ Nov 28th 2007 7:23PM
i think it looks sweet, but hte lacking capacity makes me angry
chengdude @ Nov 28th 2007 9:36PM
2GB is typical for the Chinese market. Heck, so are 1GB and 512K, for that matter. It's a way to keep the price down and since high-bitrate recordings and memory-hogging formats aren't really that popular yet, 2GB is enough. I'm guessing smaller manufacturers also have trouble getting their hands on supplies of larger-capacity memory at a price they can work with. There are lots of interesting designs out there (Oppo, Onda, Teclast) that top out at 2, sometimes 4GB. Meizu is the only Chinese company I'm aware of that regularly offers a player with 8GB and those can be hard to find. In China, the smart money in the long term has to be on cheaper, all-in-one mobile phones...even today, most of the time the earbuds you see all the kids wearing are plugged into a phone, not a PMP or DAP.
daniel @ Nov 28th 2007 9:40PM
The interface is EXACTLY THE SAME with new premium iriver players. tsktsk.
Skillz @ Nov 29th 2007 2:25AM
I really like the Visual EQ on the screen, are there any more players who have this?
Molly C @ Nov 29th 2007 4:41AM
This looks nice.
But what does it mean, that it "supports AVI"? AVI is simply a video container file format that can contain any type of video (DivX, MPEG, WMV, Sorenson (I think), DV, MP4, etc, etc). "Supports AVI" is nearly a meaningless statement.
But this device does support ogg and flac, so OSS fanboys will love it. ;)
Jeff @ Nov 29th 2007 9:54AM
KIRFs?
Koreans I'd Rather F-?
(..."rather" meaning instead of buy a cellphone or other digital product from)
PenaltyKillah @ Dec 1st 2007 3:53PM
Another of those Chinese 'MP4' wannabes? And it can't even display the right album art? Just like my ZEN Vision:M...