For now, the W10 is the Korean firm's most anticipated PVP for 2007. Prior to CES 2007, pundits had been guessing that it would feature a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, though as it turned out, it uses Wi-Fi to determine its location instead.

Memory capacity maxes out at what is now the standard for flash-based players (8GB), but the W10 will also have a miniSD card slot to expand itself. The touchscreen interface remind us of the Cowon D2 and, if the W10's 3-inch WQVGA screen is anything like the D2 in terms of crispness, we will be mighty impressed when it lands in our hands.

There's plenty of content format support onboard: MPEG-4, WMV for video and MP3, WMA and AAC for audio. Usual standards from iriver like FM radio and voice recording are also included, but what's a real nifty possibility is that the W10 may support VoIP though its Wi-Fi connection.

While iriver would not reveal the final technical specifications, the Wi-Fi locater will probably work on the premise of triangulation. Software within the W10 will have an updatable map of the Wi-Fi hotspots, and by identifying the SSIDs of the nearest hotspots, it will approximate your location. We trust it will work best in cities that enjoy blanket Wi-Fi coverage, but unlike GPS the coverage will not be as vast. However, the virtue of Wi-Fi is that locating oneself while indoors is possible, while with GPS it's not.