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The flash-based iRiver E100 portable media player is out. The E100 will deliver free lossless audio codec (FLAC) support. Want more? How about MP3, WMA, ASF and OGG files, too?

Videophiles haven’t been left out. The E100 will serve up 30 fps video in a variety of formats, including MPEG4 SP, WMV9 and XVID SP. Want to encode your own stuff? No problem. The E100 comes with the tools you need to do just that.

Photo viewing and sharing also come along for the ride. The E100 will display and save JPEG, BMP, PNG and GIF files to an external device and comes with an easy-to-navigate interface that makes finding your files a snap.

The E100 also offers an e-book reader that can also handle text files. For good measure, iRiver added an FM radio tuner and a recording timer, so users can record FM broadcasts for later playback.

The 2.4-inch TFT LCD display is big and colourful. Dual speakers provide excellent sound fidelity, and a mini headphone jack lets you keep your sounds to yourself. The E100 also features both MIC and line in jacks for those times when you want to lay down your own sound.

You’ll need to have a computer that runs Windows XP SP2 or later if you want to use the Iriverplus software for device management. Comes in black, blue, pink or white and runs about €129 for the 8GB versions. 2GB and 4GB models are also available.

Check out the rest of the iRiver line at TestFreaks.