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The popular Cowon portable media player, the N3, recently underwent a major appearance change. Previously the N3 had a shiny aluminum casing, however it now has a wooden casing - Burl Walnut to be exact. Otherwise, it still comes with the same features as before, and it still remains a Portable Navigation Device.

The N3 runs on a sweet Alchemy AU1250 600Mhz CPU, comes with a nice, big 7-inch touchscreen, boasting 16.7 million colors, audio playback, video playback, and image viewing. Other features include an electronic dictionary, Picture-In-Picture, and GPS, hence the PND. No word on whether the pricing is going to be higher, but it makes sense that it would be higher due to the wooden casing, and it is only going to be available in the Korean market.

Via [Akihabara News]

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Cowon has released their N3 portable media player, with some impressive specs, but very similar to the Q5. The N3 features a 800 x 480 7-inch touchscreen display, GPS, a DMB tuner and supports a wide variety of formats to include DivX/XviD. The N3 is powered by a 600MHz Alchemy AU processor, runs Windows CE 5.0 and has two SDHC slots, which is good because there is not any internal memory. No word on price or availability date.

Via [dapreview.net]

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