Monday, 27 December 2010

iriver E100 8 GB Multimedia Player (Pink)

1. Very stylish affordable and packed with great extras E100 comes with built-in a pair of Stereo Speaker Micro SD Slot new D-Click System Line-In Recording (Internal MIC and External MIC Support) 262K Color 2.4” TFT LCD with colorful GUI FM Radio with recording Voice Recording Photo Viewer and Text Viewer. It natively supports MP3 WAV WMA OGG and FLAC audio file formats and MPEG-4 WMV9 and XviD video file formats featuring video bookmarking sequential playback option. 2. Intuitive iriver New D-Click System E100 provides comfortable usage with ‘iriver new D-Click System’ which is operated by clicking the housed menu button in the four directions with square middle OK button easily and satisfyingly clickable. UI (User Interface) is intuitive and easy to control. Take pleasure in the new D-Click System. 3. Simple Stylish and Durable Design E100 with rounded corners and a clean face is smooth durable and resistant to fingerprints and scratches. Its’ compact size and weight still lives up to iriver's usual standards of quality portable Audio/Video player. . Music Files - E100 supports most popular audio formats MP3 WAV WMA and OGG and FLAC – both lossless file formats. Providing abundant base and three-dimensional sounds with playback featuring A-B repeat play modes (normal repeat repeat one shuffle shuffle + repeat) presets EQs (normal rock pop classic soft jazz) a 5-band custom EQ SRS WOW HD audio enhancements (SRS TruBass Focus WOW Definition) fade-in scan speeds ratings and bookmarks . Video files - E100 with TFT LCD (320 X 240) resolution supports Xvid MPEG-4 SP and WMV9 SP of 30 frames per second. . Line-In Recording (Internal MIC and External MIC Support) . Built-in Stereo Speakers . Covered Micro SD card slot supporting cards up to 4GB in size.

  • MicroSD Slot

  • Built In Stereo Speaker

  • Line-In recording

  • FM Radio with recording

  • Voice recording



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Sunday, 26 December 2010

RCA Opal M4002 2GB USB 2.0 MP3 Digital Music/Video Player & Voice Recorder w/1.5" OLED (Black/Silver)

Never be bored again!This RCA Opal M4002 portable digital media player lets you listen to audio watch video clips record and view photo slideshows all in one handheld device! The M4002 features 2 GB of flash memory and lets you view photos and video clips on the 1.5-inch full color OLED display. With the built-in rechargeable lithium polymer battery you can get up to 15 hours of music playback on a full charge. Use the built-in microphone to record meetings verbal notes and more. There is even line-in recording so you can record other audio directly to the Opal player!Order today!

  • RCA Opal M4002 2 GB USB 2.0 MP3 Digital Music Player General Features: Color: Black/Silver

  • 2 GB flash memory

  • Plays open MP3 and WMA audio files and is compatible with iTunes Plus and Amazon MP3

  • Compatible with most WMA-compliant secure music download and subscription services

  • Audible ready: plays audio books from audible.com



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Wednesday, 22 December 2010

iHome iH31S - Boombox for iPod and iPod Shuffle With Remote. MP3 Player and FM Radio - SILVER

The humble boom box has come a long way! Now you can listen to music from your iPod or other digital music player in your car at the park or in your office with the stylish modern iHome Boom Box. Whether you're running on AC power (which also charges your iPod even iPod shuffle models!) car adapter or C-cell batteries you'll enjoy a full rich sound experience from the 4" stereo speakers.

The included dock adapters and patch cable ensure that your dockable iPod or Shuffle will be ready to play out loud in no time! This boom box also brings your clear crisp FM radio reception and features 6 memory presets to store your favorite stations. The included full-function remote puts you in control even when you're not standing next to the unit. This portable beauty brings forth every nuance of your music at home or on the road.

  • Stylish modern iHome Boom Box. Rich full sound you can take anywhere - beach boardwalk or bedroom

  • Built-In dock allows charging capabilities for iPod and iPod Shuffle.

  • Runs on batteries AC outlet or car adaptor Aux/MP3 line-in jack with patch cord for other MP3 players and audio devices.

  • The included dock adapters and patch cable ensure that your dockable iPod or Shuffle will be ready to play out loud in no time

  • This boom box also brings your clear crisp FM radio reception and features 6 memory presets to store your favorite stations .



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Friday, 17 December 2010

iAudio X5L 30 GB Multimedia Player Black

Portable Multimedia Player

  • Multi-media player with 30 GB of storage 260000-color TFT-LCD

  • MP3 OGG WMA ASF FLAC WAV and MPEG4 (video) playback

  • FM radio reception and recording; voice recording and line-in recording

  • Includes USB 2.0 port for PCs; compatible with Mac OS X and Linux v2.0 or higher for data transfer

  • Features long playback time of up to 35 hours



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Tuesday, 14 December 2010

iriver E100 4 GB Multimedia Player (Brown)

1. Very stylish affordable and packed with great extras E100 comes with built-in a pair of Stereo Speaker Micro SD Slot new D-Click System Line-In Recording (Internal MIC and External MIC Support) 262K Color 2.4” TFT LCD with colorful GUI FM Radio with recording Voice Recording Photo Viewer and Text Viewer. It natively supports MP3 WAV WMA OGG and FLAC audio file formats and MPEG-4 WMV9 and XviD video file formats featuring video bookmarking sequential playback option. 2. Intuitive iriver New D-Click System E100 provides comfortable usage with ‘iriver new D-Click System’ which is operated by clicking the housed menu button in the four directions with square middle OK button easily and satisfyingly clickable. UI (User Interface) is intuitive and easy to control. Take pleasure in the new D-Click System. 3. Simple Stylish and Durable Design E100 with rounded corners and a clean face is smooth durable and resistant to fingerprints and scratches. Its’ compact size and weight still lives up to iriver's usual standards of quality portable Audio/Video player. . Music Files - E100 supports most popular audio formats MP3 WAV WMA and OGG and FLAC – both lossless file formats. Providing abundant base and three-dimensional sounds with playback featuring A-B repeat play modes (normal repeat repeat one shuffle shuffle + repeat) presets EQs (normal rock pop classic soft jazz) a 5-band custom EQ SRS WOW HD audio enhancements (SRS TruBass Focus WOW Definition) fade-in scan speeds ratings and bookmarks . Video files - E100 with TFT LCD (320 X 240) resolution supports Xvid MPEG-4 SP and WMV9 SP of 30 frames per second. . Line-In Recording (Internal MIC and External MIC Support) . Built-in Stereo Speakers . Covered Micro SD card slot supporting cards up to 4GB in size.

  • MicroSD Slot

  • Built In Stereo Speaker

  • Line-In recording

  • FM Radio with recording

  • Voice recording



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Saturday, 16 October 2010

iriver E100 8 GB Multimedia Player (Pink)

1. Very stylish affordable and packed with great extras E100 comes with built-in a pair of Stereo Speaker Micro SD Slot new D-Click System Line-In Recording (Internal MIC and External MIC Support) 262K Color 2.4” TFT LCD with colorful GUI FM Radio with recording Voice Recording Photo Viewer and Text Viewer. It natively supports MP3 WAV WMA OGG and FLAC audio file formats and MPEG-4 WMV9 and XviD video file formats featuring video bookmarking sequential playback option. 2. Intuitive iriver New D-Click System E100 provides comfortable usage with ‘iriver new D-Click System’ which is operated by clicking the housed menu button in the four directions with square middle OK button easily and satisfyingly clickable. UI (User Interface) is intuitive and easy to control. Take pleasure in the new D-Click System. 3. Simple Stylish and Durable Design E100 with rounded corners and a clean face is smooth durable and resistant to fingerprints and scratches. Its’ compact size and weight still lives up to iriver's usual standards of quality portable Audio/Video player. . Music Files - E100 supports most popular audio formats MP3 WAV WMA and OGG and FLAC – both lossless file formats. Providing abundant base and three-dimensional sounds with playback featuring A-B repeat play modes (normal repeat repeat one shuffle shuffle + repeat) presets EQs (normal rock pop classic soft jazz) a 5-band custom EQ SRS WOW HD audio enhancements (SRS TruBass Focus WOW Definition) fade-in scan speeds ratings and bookmarks . Video files - E100 with TFT LCD (320 X 240) resolution supports Xvid MPEG-4 SP and WMV9 SP of 30 frames per second. . Line-In Recording (Internal MIC and External MIC Support) . Built-in Stereo Speakers . Covered Micro SD card slot supporting cards up to 4GB in size.

  • MicroSD Slot

  • Built In Stereo Speaker

  • Line-In recording

  • FM Radio with recording

  • Voice recording



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Friday, 8 October 2010

iHome iH31S - Boombox for iPod and iPod Shuffle With Remote. MP3 Player and FM Radio - SILVER

The humble boom box has come a long way! Now you can listen to music from your iPod or other digital music player in your car at the park or in your office with the stylish modern iHome Boom Box. Whether you're running on AC power (which also charges your iPod even iPod shuffle models!) car adapter or C-cell batteries you'll enjoy a full rich sound experience from the 4" stereo speakers.

The included dock adapters and patch cable ensure that your dockable iPod or Shuffle will be ready to play out loud in no time! This boom box also brings your clear crisp FM radio reception and features 6 memory presets to store your favorite stations. The included full-function remote puts you in control even when you're not standing next to the unit. This portable beauty brings forth every nuance of your music at home or on the road.

  • Stylish modern iHome Boom Box. Rich full sound you can take anywhere - beach boardwalk or bedroom

  • Built-In dock allows charging capabilities for iPod and iPod Shuffle.

  • Runs on batteries AC outlet or car adaptor Aux/MP3 line-in jack with patch cord for other MP3 players and audio devices.

  • The included dock adapters and patch cable ensure that your dockable iPod or Shuffle will be ready to play out loud in no time

  • This boom box also brings your clear crisp FM radio reception and features 6 memory presets to store your favorite stations .



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Tuesday, 5 October 2010

iriver E100 8 GB Multimedia Player (Black)


A "good little average" media player.3

Let me start this review by saying that I'm an above average user who has used a plethora of media players out there so my reference point maybe a little different from yours.



This is a little device (See posted photo in user images) similar to the size of a credit card. It comes in many colors so choice of color should not be a problem. I bought the black one which is made in a matte plastic which I am very satisfied with. Leaves fingerprints on the black surface but doesn't really standout as the unit is not polished to a high gloss. The player is also extremely light much lighter than any of the competitors (iPod Nano Sandisk Sansa). This lightness maybe preferred by many users but I find it too light (Forgetting its with you and almost loaded it into the washing machine; also feels a bit cheap because of its weight).



I primarily bought this device for its built in speaker to listen to audio books. Unfortunately the speaker has quite poor volume (Nothing compared to the competing Samsung S5 or K5). But the iriver is a genius with file formats and plays many formats surprisingly plays 700mb video files encoded with xvid (video) and mp3 (audio) quite smoothly. In addition to this it play Windows Media Audio / Video Avi's (Xvid Compressed) Mp3's BMP's JPG's PNG's Text and more. It also has a full range FM tuner that allows 20 presets which is a great feature. One of the best features the E100 has is the fact that it can record FM Voice and Line in Directly to its internal memory and saves it in WMA format. Using a headset I recorded a 1 hour audio lecture of unmatched quality and later edited on the PC for the sections I wanted out.



There are many reviews that oppose the navigational buttons on the E100 (Left and right buttons control settings and back to main menu functions while up and down control the track / video / photo forward or backward). Though this is unorthodox the navigational "D" menu took me a day to master and can be controlled quite easily after this initial learning. It is not at all complicated though menus require a lot of clicks left and right to get what you are trying to do.



The expandable memory slot is an advantage and a easy way to upgrade this player to double its capacity via cheap micro sd cards. The problem here is that files on the micro sd are not read in the database for browsing by track artist album etc but has to be accessed rather crudely through a file manager. I have used a 4gb micro sd with no problems. Keep this memory for adding lengthy movies where you may store 5 - 6 full length movies that are easy to access on this media. The player can be used as a portable hard drive (Obviously). Battery life was quite good though the bad news is that this player comes with no wall charger and must be charged via a PC or Mac's USB port (Powered of course). I use my iPhone's charger to charge this device (USB Charger with 5 volts output with 1 Amp total output).



The audio quality on the headphones is quite decent but the speaker is definitely weak and unpronounced. Only listening to the device on full volume in a dead silent room gives you a semi decent listening experience. The good thing here is that many problems have been fixed via firmware upgrades provided by iriver which I have got 3 times already since purchase in April. Hopefully they will address the speaker volume in the next update. One of the worse features of the device is the fact that the screen is terrible. It is sufficient for mp3 menu options but falls far short for photo and video options. When in portrait mode the screen is clear but when used in landscape mode (For photos and videos) the screen gets inadvertently polarized and produces poor and unclear photos.



The iriver e100 is a decent media player but by no means the best. It has good features and poor ones as well. It could have been a great media player had there not been so many mistakes. Yet I believe that many entry level media player buyers will enjoy this player as well as some advanced users (Due to advanced recording functions / file support) though the large chunk of the middle spectrum will be unhappy with the many quirks. I have used better players and worse ones as well. The iPod nano is still a heavy weight in its class though for users looking to break away from the iPod and iTunes bundle and jazz up their player with FM Recording Direct MP3 Photo Text and Video and a speaker - at a lower price than the iPod the iriver makes sense. This player is a jack of all trades but master of none.





Pros:

Color Options

Lightweight

Multiple Files Supported

FM Tuner

Frequent Firmware Upgrades

Integrated Speaker

Line In / Mic In / FM Recording

Micro SD Expandable

Direct Copy without conversions



Cons:

Plastic Body

Poor Screen

Speaker Volume

No Charger Provided (USB Charging Only)

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Sunday, 3 October 2010

Creative Zen V Plus 1GB (Black/Orange)


very pleased4

I bought this for my 11 year old son. At first I was upset it is much smaller than I had expected.However he loves it. The software is very user- friendly and he needed only basic help from me in the begining now he can load all his own music without assistance. It does have a joystick-type button to access the menu so I would recommend caution and patience when using that. So far he has had no issues with it.Definitely worth the money. The sound quality is amazing. One thing that is not made clear though: it does have a FM tuner BUT you can NOT record from it we thought you could.More detail ...