We all know that Clarion hasn’t had much success with the mobile computer/portable navigation device combination, but iriver is trying the same thing in a different market with the announcement of its NV Classic portable media player. With a 7-inch 800 x 480 pixel touchscreen and a “Magazine” user interface, the NV Classic provides portable media playback, complete with a DMB digital TV and radio tuner, and playback for all the popular audio and video codecs.
And the NV Classic, which sports dimensions of 181 x 120 x 21.5 millimeters, acts as an in-car GPS device as well. Two SDHC card slots are embedded in the device, one of which supports the mapping card, while the other supplies 4 GB of storage space for your media.
Including twin 1.5 Watt speakers and a car kit, the iriver NV Classic will cost the equivalent of $264 when it ships in Korea later this year.