China Vasion MP4 Digital Media Player Boasts SRS WOW But Misses Out on All Important Wow Factor

Yes, our friends at China Vasion (I say friends though I dare say, with our posts concerning their products in mind, China Vasion would probably take issue with this) have added yet another product in their ever increasing line up of cut price gadgetry in the form of this MP4 digital media player which comes in 1GB, 2GB and 4GB flavours.

Sporting a 2” LCD 128 x 160 resolution TFT display and a thickness of a mere 9mm, China Vasion’s PMP supports MP4, AVI and WMV video formats as well as MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, ASF and WAV audio formats (so no bonus points for supporting the OGG format) and comes complete with FM radio tuner and audio recording capabilities thanks to the inbuilt speaker – rated at a mere 10mW – being supplemented by on on-board mic.

Other notable features include e-book functionality (though, on a device with such a diminutive screen size one, could argue that such functionality is somewhat redundant), six equaliser settings, SRS WOW post processing, inbuilt Mini SD card slot. So far so, (checks thesaurus), rudimentary.

Billed as being ‘the perfect item to show off to friends’ (China Vasion have obviously not met my friends) China Vasion’s somewhat uninspiring MP4 Digital Media Player comes complete with earphones, USB cord and power adapter and retails for around $35 / $37 / $49 for the 1GB, 2GB and 4GB models respectively which a series of staggered discounts being offered for bulk purchases.

(By way of a footnote, though it would seem that we can never quite resist having cheap shots at China Vasion’s products in actuality we have a somewhat repressed (begrudging?) admiration for how they manage to turn out low end gadgetry that, all said and done (and let’s be honest here), is not actually badly priced for the level of functionality they offer. Damn, the truth’s out.)