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Iriver D5 multimedia e-dictionary available in US

Thanks to Pocketables reader pk, I just learned that iriver America has quietly begun selling the metallic D5 multimedia e-dictionary at their online store. Available in both black and white, the 2GB ($299.99) and 4GB ($349.99) clamshell media players are the first e-dictionaries in the company’s Dicple series to ever be sold in the US.

Iriver_d5_usa

Iriver doesn’t mention whether the UI is in Korean [Update: It is], as it was when I played with it at CES 2008 and as it should be given its intended audience, but they do reveal that the tiny handheld ships with a pouch, earphones, USB 2.0 cable, installation CD, and printed start guide.

Iriver_d5_hand

I’ve gone over the specs of the device before, but here they are again:

  • 3-inch 480 x 272 TFT display
  • 52-key QWERTY keyboard
  • Dictionaries: Korean-English, English-English, Korean-Japanese, Korean-Chinese
  • Audio: MP3, WMA, ASF, OGG
  • Video: AVI (MPEG-4 SP)
  • Photo: JPG (3600 x 2400), GIFT (1024 x 768), BMP (1024 x 768)
  • Text viewer
  • FM radio
  • Voice recorder

The iriver D5 is undoubtedly overpriced, but it’s actually a bit cheaper than I thought it would be. You might remember that when the unit was revealed last summer, I expected prices to fall between the $350 and $450 range. I spent about that much to import the lesser-featured iriver D26 last year, so the idea of spending $300 for what would just be a 2GB PMP to anyone who wouldn’t use the dictionary function doesn’t sound that unreasonable to me.

Thanks, pk!

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Jenn K. Lee is the founder of Pocketables. She loves gadgets the way most women love shoes and purses. The pieces in her tech wardrobe that go with everything are currently the Samsung Galaxy Note II, Sony Tablet P, and Nexus 7, but there are still a couple of vintage UMPCs/MIDs in the back of her closet.

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