If you’ve been in some quiet anticipation of some pricing and release time frame for that new iAudio U5 MP3 player from Cowon your wait is over. Our buddies over Crave have caught wind that Cowon America has went ahead and already started shipping the U5.

The player is available in a black 4GB model and a white 8GB model for $119 and $159, respectively. Unlike most of Cowon’s stuff, this one lacks some of the frills you’ll find in many other competitors, but it does house a 1.8-inch TFT LCD (no video playback, audio only), an FM tuner that can be recorded, an equalizer, voice recorder and alarm clock.

If you want to get a better idea of the players functionality you can check out Cowon’s video after the jump:

Cowon looks like it has finally begun American sales of a long awaited portable media player with wireless capabilities. The new Cowon Q5W comes in 40GB and 60GB hard drive sizes, priced at around $550 and $600 respectively.

The Cowon Q5W offers up a five-inch touchscreen display as its primary user interface. It offers both 802.11 wireless and Bluetooth wireless support and can playback many audio (MP3, WMA, ASF, OGG, WAV, FLAC, APE, MPC) and video (AVI, ASF, WMV, MPG, OGM) file formats as well as a bunch of photo (JPG, BMP, PNG, NEF(Nikon RAW file) up to 10MB) types also. It works over a USB 2.0 connection for data transfers and has audio/video playback times of 13/7 hours respectively.

Cowon introduced the iAudio U5 media player at IFA this week and while it has a slimmer and simpler design than the iAudio 7 that Cowon released in June, we don’t find the looks of the U5 quite as appealing.

The player is an audio player only, sporting a 1.8″ TFT LCD with 128×160 resolution and uses an on board equalizer to fine tune MP3 and WMA files. You can also use it to record the FM radio through a built-in tuner or do direct voice recording to the player through its microphone. The iAudio U5 has a rechargeable battery with as much as 20 hours of playback and comes in capacities of 2GB, 4GB and 8GB and can double as mass storage through a USB 2.0 connection.

Remember last month we told you all about Cowan’s cool little iAudio 7 music player? Well, we’ve got good news guys and gals: the iAudio is now shipping to customers from its Korean point of origin.

The silver highlighted 4 GB unit goes for $169.99 while the red one goes for $219.99, about $30 less than Cowan originally thought that they would go for. This little number can give you a whopping 60 hours of playback time, supports a whackload of audio formats (AAC, FLAC, OGG, MP3, WMA and WAV) and can even play XviD videos …

Cowan has launched a new media player with some features not unlike many of the other MP3 players on the market, but the 60 hours of continuous music playback helps the iAudio 7 stand out from the crowd.

The sleek glossy look and inset buttons on the face don’t hurt, either. For all that music playback time it supports an array of formats which consist of AAC, FLAC, OGG, MP3, WMA and WAV. It will also play videos (XviD) that can be viewed on the 1.3″ LCD, which …

SEOUL, Korea - Cowon is planning on releasing the Cowon D2 digital audio and video player on December 19th. This player has a 2.5″ touchscreen for navigation and handles multiple audio and video multimedia as well as broadcasted multimedia (DMB) without an external antenna. It even has a video out port to play the video on another display device.

The battery allows for 52 hours of audio playback and up to 10 hours video playback, and this player is very small. At only 78.0 x 55.4 x 16.6 mm and weighing …