South Korean firm i-Bead is releasing a new 1.5 gigabyte hard disk player with a built-in 65k-color screen. Although there's no word on price yet, the feature set looks nice, with a built-in FM tuner and recorder, line-in recording, text viewing (something that is missing from way too many players), and USB 2.0, as well as a variety of major audio formats. And the best news? It looks like the i-Bead 1000 will be making it to Europe and the US; previous i-Bead players have been Asia-only.
Read - i-Bead to launch i-Bead 1000 [DAPreview]

Update: Apparently a few of the previous i-Bead players have made their way over to Europe, at least, under the Jens of Sweden brand. (Thanks, Teemu!)

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