Kingston Enters Personal Media Player Market with K-PEX

Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced its new line of Personal Media Players (PMPs). With its highly stylized design and ultra-slim form factor, K-PEX (Kingston Personal Entertainment eXperience) allows users to watch videos, listen to music, play video games and store/view photographs. The K-PEX is currently available in North America, Latin America and the Asia/Pacific Rim.

Kingston’s K-PEX will be available with embedded memory capacities of 1 GB and 2 GB and will provide a miniSD slot for easy downloads of music, video and photographs directly onto the memory card. K-PEX will be available as a complete kit and include a USB 2.0 cable, USB host cable, line-in cable, earphones, transcoder software CD, protective cover, lanyard, comprehensive user manual, and quick start guide.

The K-PEX with its super-slim, lightweight design, makes it easy and convenient to use on planes, in the car, at home or in the office. It offers a number of unique features including a multi-region FM radio and a high resolution, 2-inch color LCD video screen. Measuring 3.7 x 1.8 x .57-inches and weighing a mere 2.2 ounces, the K-PEX Personal Media Player can playback most popular formats including MP3, WMA, OGG and WAV audio; MPEG 1&2, AVI, WMV and ASF video, JPEG image formats, and TXT documents.

As a special promotion, Kingston will ship the first 4,000 2GB players bundled with a free Kingston miniSD card. K-PEX will have a manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) of US.99 (1 GB) and US.99 (2 GB).