Inspire Nova Flash 1 GB Portable Media MP3 Player

List Price: ~~$59.99~~

Brand: Inspire

Features:

1.5" LCD screen
0.50" thickness
video, picture and text file viewing
drag and drop music, picture and text file with ease
20 preset FM statons

Customer Reviews:

Brilliant for the Money [Posted on 2007-02-13]
For the money this is a very good little gadget. It plays MP3s, has a reasonable radio receiver and features lots of little extras while being easily navigable and compact. However, there are a couple of caveats.

The manual for the product is an amusing example of mangled English. While it does outline the basic operation of the unit, some of the subtleties are only really discoverable through experimentation.

The device came with a worm on it. This was easily knocked out with an anti virus program, but was irritating nonetheless. However, this is not as rare on MP3 players as one may initially assume and should not deter someone from buying it.

The presentation is very attractive, although somewhat cutesy and girly. As yet I can't see how to change some of the screens, although I assume it must be possible from the level of customisation and ease of use the player otherwise displays.

The sound quality was a pleasant surprise and the dimensions impressively compact. I wouldn't have a moment's hesitation in buying another one of these units, especially instead of a more expensive and less fully featured player.

Nifty little gadget [Posted on 2007-02-20]
Recently bought one of these as was first off impressed with the quick shipment, no need to get expediated shipping b/c it arrived in about 4-5 days. Several things on the pros and cons of this item, and the pros greatly outweight the cons:

Pros:
- for the money, you can't beat it, hands down. You are definately getting more than what you paid for if your into gadgets.
- It is very easy to drag and drop pictures, mp3s, etc... right onto the file folder when it opens up as a different drive.
- Yes, can you believe it, it actually plays videos that you can watch on this thing. The screen size is small, but what you get in portability you lose in size. I was working on several programs to take advantage of the video ability. My research told me that this player only will play videos in the ".amv" extenstion. Never heard of it until today when I started messing with it. After a lot of fiddling I found an "amv" converter which worked great - however I could only convert "mpeg1 & mpeg2" files into "amv." Or at least that is what the software I found supported. I tried a bunch, but I could only convert from MPEG files, not AVI(like I really wanted).
- one is able to put .jpeg and .bitmap pictures on it quite easily
- unlike other MP3 players I have bought, one has to rely on batteries but this unit actually has an onboard battery and a plug in charger(believe it or not). I think you can also recharge by the computer's USB
- radio really works great!
- battery life, hmm don't know, just got it but seems to work fine.

The bad(well not that bad)
- the functions and menus are not condusive to quickly jumping to another song without backing out to the root menu where the mp3.s are stored. But I think this is more of a condition that the buttons are so darn small they didn't have anywhere to put a scroll wheel. I have an Ipod nano - great for mp3s but horrible if you want to "own" your own music.
- it has games on it, but why bother? the buttons are so small.

The naughty:
- yep, the guy who mentioned a virus was right - If I hadn't known to run a virus check on this drive, I could have come down with a nasty cold. BE FORWARNED - DO A VIRUS CHECK ON THE UNIT PRIOR TO USING.

All in all, probably will buy another one - it has a little bit of "wow, you can play videos on that thing to?" have fun with the unit, but it is really that small you could forget in your pants and give it a good cleaning it doesn't need in the washing machine.

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