The thing with international companies and great products is that the company will usually debut a certain product in their home country before other places, say the United States. iriver has been working on the P7 for some time now, and today, it officially launches in Korea. In terms of specs, the device features a more »

At CES 2009, iriver had on display a new PMP called the P7. While Apple certainly has the upper hand with MP3 players in the United States, iriver does pretty well in Korea, so the P7 will most likely be released there first. You may have heard of the P7 already due to its hype, so let’s see what all the fuss is about.

The P7 comes with a large touch screen, measuring in at 4.3-inches. The thing about a big screen PMP is the fact that the portability factor decreases, but viewing pleasure increases. It comes in a few different models with varying hard drive sizes (4GB, 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB). It has a 35 hour battery life when playing audio and a 7 hour battery life when playing video. The amount of formats a PMP can handle is important if you are an audio junkie.