Aigo McLaren Mercedes PMP Officially Launched

The Aigo McLaren Mercedes PMP

In-car entertainment plays a very important role in our lives, especially for drivers who spend hours in traffic, stuck in traffic jams. Because of that, companies around the world struggled to design powerful entertainment systems that would suit every driver, providing him with all the features he would need. The Aigo McLaren Mercedes PMP was officially launched a few days ago and is the first official result of the F1 racing McLaren sponsorship.

The PMP features a 4.3-inch screen with a maximum resolution of 480x272 pixels combined with a 1280x720 high-definition resolution. The device supports a large number of video formats, including AVI, FLV, DAT, MPG, MPEG and RM. In terms of audio formats, the gadget is able to play MP3, WMA, FLAC plus a couple of less-popular extensions.

Beside all of these, the Aigo device is also a popular image browser, with support for JPG, BMP and GIF formats. Unfortunately, the e-book reader is only compatible with TXT e-books so browsing electronic books on the device may prove to be quite difficult.

Since storage capacity is extremely important for such a device, Aigo designed a special microSD slot that allows up to several GB of additional space.

The 220mAh rechargeable lithium-ion battery provides up to 10 hours of continuous audio playback and a maximum of 4 hours of video playback with a single charge, with the recharging process taking as much as 2 hours.

Although there's no word on pricing, the McLaren Mercedes brand may raise a little bit the overall value of this device so it will probably be sold for a few hundred dollars.