iRiver U10 to Support Landscape and Portrait Use

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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