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| Review Date: February 2, 2010 |
| Reviewer: david, boston |
| i purchased this to record some of my college classes that i had trouble with. it did a good job and transferring from usb to comp was easy. battery life sucks, have batteries in advance! sound quality is awful. ear phones are also poor quality and the wiring is messy. in other words, have your own ear/head phones! |
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| Review Date: November 22, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Kyle Heuer, Corvallis, OR United States |
Upsides: This Mp3 player is very portable. The small design is great to have in your pant pockets, sweatshirt, or backpack. The hold switch is nice to have and you don't have to worry about accidentally clicking it. This player lasted me about a year and a half for $20.00. I consider that pretty good. You do not need ITunes for this!
Downsides: Letters can rub off easily. The case, though small and durable, can still look like garbage. Mine closely resembles the stuff. Audiobooks would occasionally put the last tracks first, but this was not to much of a problem since it would only be 2 tracks. When mine finally went, it was the play button. It got stuck inside of the player. It just eventually happened. I did have a couple problems with it turning off when I was playing music but this only happened about 5 times.
I never got the chance to use the voice recorder or FM radio.
With 30+ mins of music or audiobook being played daily for over a year I consider this player worth buying if you are strapped for cash.
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Flimsly construction, but it works.
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| Review Date: November 8, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Chino, New York |
This is bulkier than it should be.
The controls are kind of odd, but not really complicated. |
This is a nice product for the price
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| Review Date: May 22, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Anjanette L. Hatchett, MICHIGAN, USA |
| This is a great product, easy to operate and nice to use when walking or can even be hooked up in your car if accessable. It did not come with alot of instructions but it was easy to figure out, Cool featured like the radio and voice recorder are great. |
Don't buy!
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| Review Date: November 26, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Srinath Vadlamani, Boulder, CO United States |
The device does not keep tracks in proper order. A new AAA battery will be drained when uploading music. A new AAA battery will be drained when left in the product overnight, in the off position.
Horrible costumer service. Just an email address, no phone contact. Looks like a shop out of someones NYC apartment.
Waste of money! |
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| Review Date: November 24, 2008 |
| Reviewer: C. A. Luster, Burke, VA USA |
When I bought two of these for under twenty-five dollars each I figured it was a bargain because of the reviews. Let me clarify a couple things about this Chinese Digital MP3 player. I got these in and tested one since in fact one was for me in the office and the other a gift for a charity.
Pros: It is a low price for a two gigabyte player, radio, pen drive, recorder. That's right, the box shows two GB checked, not one, and it is a two gigabyte player since I checked the properties as soon as I plugged the USB into my PC. It doesn't cost near as much as name brands for all this functionality. It comes with a paper user manual and a soft copy on the CD driver disk. The instructions appear to be clear on the players usage. It turns itself off if you leave it sitting without use after just a minute to conserve the battery.
Cons: Whoever did their product photography is a master of deception. The player in REAL life looks bulky and cheap, cheap, cheap. It is cheap, cheap, cheap, and I don't mean that in a nice way. Ever walk down the street in a large city and buy something from a street vendor? Now it was cheap, but you didn't figure it would last right? This is that kind of cheap. You can tell it was not made with quality materials or workmanship by a name brand. The instructions appear to be clear on the players usage, wait till you try to follow them. The player and headphones are a cheap plastic that could easily be crushed. The plastic buttons feel sloppy when you use them, like they were cheaply made overseas. Good luck trying to figure out out to play it. There is no play button just a digital readout you have to highlight, then supposedly press a Universal button to play. I never got it to work. It copies files from the PC to the USB very slowly. I had no luck trying to install the drivers on a XP PC. I doubt they will install on anything newer than Windows 98 from the look of the folders on the CD. Mine could only be used as USB.
Under no circumstances pay more than fifteen dollars for this player if that. I highly recommend you buy a name brand instead. This one is not easy to use and I couldn't get it to play music or record and playback after an hour of reading the instructions and messing with it. At this point it is nothing more than a overpriced USB drive to me. I will rewrite this with more stars if I ever get it to play music, record, or do anything besides transfer files. Maybe I'm spoiled with my Sony MP3 player that is easy to use, but this is far to hard to use. That or the player is broke. I tested the headphones on another player and they worked fine so I know the problem isn't the headphones.
CA Luster |
decent, but not great
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| Review Date: October 28, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Desiree Reclosado, az |
| i bought this player a few months ago, and within a couple months of minimum use, it was already broken and unusable. one of the buttons got pushed in and stuck and i was unable to fix it. until then, it was a pretty nifty little thing. however, had i known it ran on batteries, i would've passed on it because i had to change the batteries about twice a week. a pain and expensive. this is good for people who rarely use their player but still want one, or good as a back-up player. |
Battery life sucks
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| Review Date: October 11, 2008 |
| Reviewer: MGK, |
| For 16.99 I guess it is ok. BUT prepare for very short battery life - less than 10 hrs. So about one AAA a day. Funny thing is that batteries drain even when the unit is switched off. Only way to avoid it is to remove the battery when not in use. Menu's as others have pointed out are not great but manageable. My 7 yr old has it figured out. At the very least it is a 1MB flash drive. |
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| Review Date: August 3, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Soldier girl, |
Honestly, I love this mp3 player. It was cheap and affordable and I got about a year and a half out of it. The only reason it didn't last longer was because I dropped it and ran over it, so really it was my fault. Even after all that abuse though it still works and plays as well as it did the first day I had it. The only reason I don't use it still is because I can't see the screen all that well now and the battery back is still in DC. >_>'
Anyway, this thing, if treated well, is very durable. The cap over the USB drive at the end was gone within the first week, but I also have a bad habit of playing with it.
The navigation is a little annoying at times, but really, its not that hard to get used to. Actually, what irks me more is that the volume screen won't disappear fast enough. The time between switching songs is a little slow, but its not that bad. The toggle switch you just have to be firm with. Pay attention to what you're doing when you're playing with it and you should be fine.
Battery life was fine with me. I got roughly 10 hours or more out of it, though I never really timed it.
Honestly, this would be what you get a teenager who's good with technology. If you get irritated with technology easily, then you'll probably just get mad. I love mine though, its small, easy to handle and use. You don't need a lot of extra software and plays anything that windows media player will.
The thing that I'll miss the most is the little dog chasing the 'Bye-Bye' when you shut it down.
By the way, the brand is DIGITAL. Took me a while to figure that one out. xD |
great deal, for what it is!
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| Review Date: July 13, 2008 |
| Reviewer: John W. Wendt, Lubbock, TX and Gulu, Uganda |
First of all--yes, I'm glad I read the other reviews before purchasing. They were exactly right--a completely worthless manual, not even worthy of trying to figure out. But for me, the use was kind of intuitive. First thing you want to do after installing the AAA battery (included) is turn the "hold" button away from the arrow; the hold button is basically a "lock" that keeps you from switching settings while it's in your pocket. Then you push the round button on the front to turn it on, and an icon menu comes up the functions that this thing performs: music, recording, playback, FM radio, or storage device. It's not that intuitive, but then, it's not completely un-intuitive either; just understand that the kind of "mousy" button on top can be pushed left or right to scroll, and then down to select. Apart from the volume button, that's about it.
It's easy to drag and drop music onto this device; just plug it into your computer and off you go. Note: this thing does NOT take MP4 music--only MP3--but if you have Itunes, it will do the conversion for you, provided that you didn't buy the music from the Itunes store. There are instructions on how to do it on the web here and there. If you only have Itunes music, you can buy conversion software. Otherwise, just stick to your MP3s.
Playback quality is very good with Apple earbuds, but is pretty bad with the included earphones. I did a little voice recording, and played it back--the playback quality was surprisingly good. The internal mike captures a lot. Will also record directly off FM, if you ever need such a thing.
Overall--for the price I paid (less than 20), a real steal. If it's much more than that, forget it. Believe it or not, I saw this exact same thing in Uganda (Africa)--it is all over the world, from China, and CHEAP. So if some USA reseller is trying to rip you off, give it a pass.
Just plan on diddling with it a while before you get the feel of how it works. If you aren't a diddler, this thing may be a bit tough to crack, so have your techno-friend who just can't let it go nearby, and s/he'll get you sorted! |
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