1GB USB 2.0 MP3 Digital Player w/FM & Voice Recorder

Brand: Unknown

Features:

1 GB internal flash memory
Supports MP3 and WMA formats
Integrated FM tuner and FM recording
Voice Recorder
ID3 Tag Display

Customer Reviews:

Not too bad [Posted on 2006-06-25]
[Used it for two days; Ordered on 06/14, delivered on 06/22]

First of all late delivery (8 calendar days, even after $7.x of shipping), other items I ordered arrived 3 days earlier than this one. Not sure if it's Fedex or the seller.

Bad thing:
Poor quality earphones (silver in color, where as the player is black). Not enough length to keep in pocket. You have to wear it around your neck with the player hanging at the other end. Sound is fine with my Altec Lansing headphones, but it's my computer headphone with mic. Bought a Sony ear-headphone for some $13 and now it's all set. Be prepared to buy one.

Player body fine - not very attractive; big compared to memory sticks, but decent if you compare it to say Sandisk's mp3 player; the cap doesn't look very secured to the player, but haven't faced any trouble with it so far. You have to remove the cap in order to change the battery. You have to first slide out the cap and then slide out the battery cover if you need to change the battery.

Good thing:
Plays FM fine. Did an auto scan of channels, and it detected 11 channels (missed a few). Can easily switch between channels, can tune channel manually, and can set a manually tuned channel to one of the 11 presets. Haven't tried the FM recording feature yet. I'm not sure if I'm going to use FM much anyway.

The software is well designed and makes good use of the limited hardware available.
The controls are well placed and convenient to use.
The user manual is sufficiently documented.
Is quite cheap.

Finally:
For 50$ I guess this is a good value for money. But I'll suggest spend some more dollars and go for a known brand like Sony, Philips, Creative if not the ultimate iPod! On the least, you won't need to buy a new headphone ;)

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