iriver Delivers Award Winning Design with the Touchscreen P7

The best part of this device is the graphical user interface (GUI). Like the table of contents of a magazine, the P7 delivers key information from the home screen. The P7 supports many types of video formats (codecs), which means there is no need to convert your video before loading to your personal media player (PMP). The touchscreen P7 not only supports many codecs, but has other multimedia features like an FM radio, photo viewer, text viewer, and voice recording.

The battery in this little gem of a PMP can play continuously for 35 hours. There is a built-in micro SD card slot to expand your memory. Or, if NetFlix, or other services ever start renting movies on micro SD, you have a place to insert them.

The P7 cradle has a built-in speaker, so you can hear your media playback while you possibly share the screen with a friend. The all aluminum casing of the P7 has a great look and feel. The 8GB version has an MSRP of $179, and the 16GB version has an MSRP of $209.

What I like about iriver is the support of DESIGN in the products, packaging and corporate identity. Their Web site www.iriver.com is even cool. The package that the P7 comes in can be reused for your own container needs. iriver suggests that you can use the container/P7 package as a business card holder, a pen holder, a picture frame, or even a flower vase.