The Cowon Z2 Plenue is an
Android-based
portable media player
A portable media player (PMP) (also including the related digital audio player (DAP)) is a portable consumer electronics device capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, and video files. The data is typically stored ...
manufactured by
Cowon Systems, Inc. Its release was announced on .
In the year of its release, the Z2 was awarded the
iF product design award.
The Z2 is widely considered to be the successor to the earlier
D3 Plenue, upon which it improves in a number of ways, most notably of which is speed. The Z2 features a 1 GHz
Cortex-A8
The ARM Cortex-A8 is a 32-bit processor core licensed by ARM Holdings implementing the ARMv7-A architecture.
Compared to the ARM11, the Cortex-A8 is a dual-issue superscalar design, achieving roughly twice the instructions per cycle. The Corte ...
CPU
A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, an ...
and has 512
MB of
RAM
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People
* Ram (given name)
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* Ram (director) (Ramsubramaniam), an Indian Tamil film director
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. Aside from the CPU, it also contains a 320 MHz
Mali-200 GPU
A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed to manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device. GPUs are used in embedded systems, mob ...
and an 800 MHz
Mali
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VPU
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Technology
* Video processing unit and visual processing unit, related to graphics processing units
* Vision processing unit
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.
The Z2 was received well by critics. An
Engadget
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reviewer called it “stunningly quick”, and proceeded to state that “the touch response was just as good as on our Galaxy S II. In fact, that's indicative of the overall system.” Additionally, the Z2 has received consistently favourable reviews at online stores such as
Amazon.com
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and Advanced MP3 Players.
The Z2 features a 3.7-inch,
Gorilla Glass
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-covered
Super AMOLED
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touchscreen
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with
pixel dimensions
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of 480×800. It comes in black or white, with internal flash memory capacities ranging from 8 to 32 GB. Additionally, it supports external data storage via microSD transflash card up to 128 Gigabytes
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Touchscreen portable media players