Cowon's D3 Plenue Gets Gingerbread

Skips Frozen Yoghurt and goes a step further instead.

Rossi Fernandes|Jun 14, 2011, 10:15:44 IST

The D3 Plenue definitely looked promising if we had to keep aside the Éclair flavoured Android OS that it was running. The fact that we couldn’t download and install free apps from the Android Market was another bummer. While there’s still no sign of an Android Market in the near horizon, it looks like the PMP has taken a step to upgrading the OS and a pretty big one at that.

Plenue of Gingerbread

According to AndroidOS.in, the D3 Plenue from Cowon has got an official Gingerbread update, but for now it’s only in Korea. The good news is that the update should be rolling out for the rest of Asia and Europe in the coming weeks and although the D3 Plenue hasn’t officially been launched, we can expect to buy the PMP and quickly upgrade to Gingerbread. So with the upgrade there are quite a few improvements that the PMP will have namely an improved stability behavior and reaction rate and control buttons for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth along with sleep mode added on the status bar. Some more improvements have been made in the following sections:

Music Player

- Add the sleep timer function

- Adding ringtones using

- File List Browsing Speed

- Album art quality improvement

Comic Viewer

- Adding page navigation

So we’re still waiting for the Android Market and we definitely hope to see that coming soon.

By Rossi Fernandes

Our resident Hardware Ninja, Rossi, lives for speed - by uhh riding his bicycle. He's Tech2's utility man, dividing his time between cameras, software and intense bouts of Quake III. He's also a fan of all things obscure, case in point, Live for Speed (sic). Never heard of it? We rest our case. In his spare time he tries to teach our new joinees the tricks of the trade even though the blood sweat and tears, but give him a camera and all things forgotten.