About a month ago, we posted about the iAudio 9 PMP from Cowon, and we’re pleased to let you know that it will be coming to the United States.

As we previously posted, the Cowon supports many audio formats including MP3, FLAC, Ogg, WAV, APE, WMA, plus video files such as XviD and WMV. Not to mention the other features including the 2-inch screen, composite video output, FM radio, text reader, photo viewer, and voice recorder.

Its U.S. prices are $129 for the 8GB version and $169 for the 16GB. Compare that to the price of say, an iPod Nano.

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We are used to see COWON release a high number of portable media players during a year, and you can mark the iAudio 9 as their latest addition which is suppose to be the successor of the previous iAudio devices.

In terms of features, the COWON iAudio 9 boasts a 2.-inch screen and sadly it can only a read a few video file formats, unlike other PMPs that provide a huge list of supported formats. In this case, there are four options: AVI, WMV, Xvid, and ASF. As for the audio files, it can playback MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, FLAC and APE. The iAudio 9 might not be a good PMP in the features department, but in the style department it rocks many others out there.