iRiver U10 to Support Landscape and Portrait Use

Posted by Sparky Categories: Portable Audio / Video

The funky touch driven iRiver U10 keeps throwing cool features our way. It looks like the diminutive Korean player will support both landscape and portrait use - which makes sense given it’s unusual interface. The U10 is controlled by pushing the screen edges in the direction that the menu interface indicates for a desired action, and a UI like that is easy to rotate. The U10 features a 2.2” 320x240 screen, FM radio, and support for MPEG4 video including DivX and Xvid. With a 20 hour battery life - presumably for audio, video would of course drain the batteries quicker - this little device looks like it might be a solid competitor to the iPod mini. The U10 will feature support for Macromedia Flash Lite 1.1, thus enabling a wide variety of games and other entertainment to be ported to the U10 - an attractive feature for developers. While a 1 GB and 2 GB unit have been announced, it’s only a matter of time before the microdrive gets upgraded and we see an 8 GB version methinks. I’m expecting that this will be a popular gadget when it hits American shores - Gear Live will be certain to snap one up for a review.

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