I know this may be a little weird to be my first post for the new year [Happy 2011], but I figured since I was entering the new year with a new mp3 player, I'd post my review of it so far.
My first though was "generic much." It gave me some trouble at first- in the music department. All of the songs were just scrambled and "messy". The names were even still in their file names [ex: BUCK_TICK_Love_Letter_fetchmp3 or 01. All Me.] Then I realized that everything has to be done manually. Yes, if you're anal with your music order like I am, then you'll need to rename the song as it's actual name. Why does it do this? My guess is because it functions as an actual flash drive. But once you understand this issue, it really isn't that bad. Everything is well in the end.
For some reason, the folders tend to merge. All of my folders have the other folders inside of them [ex: Music: video, ebook, photos. Video: ebook, photos, music... so on]. Once again, this isn't really a problem. Everything is still nicely organized.
My ebooks seem to only show one chapter, but this can easily be fixed by going to the original on your PC; copy and paste it into "notepad" and save it [it can only read txt.files].
For further info: http://www.ofzenandcomputing.com/zanswers/235
The video is great as far as I know. It plays FLV, WMV, and AVI.
Comes with 8 different backgrounds you can choose from. All of them are pretty snazzy [no it doesn't have the image that it is displayed with].
Radio doesn't seem to work at all. I don't listen to the radio, so I'm fine with it
Biggest problem: It doesn't keep time.
If you set it, the time will stay the exact same. Set it for 8:00, five hours later, it still says 8:00. It doesn't even keep the date. I thought it did at first.
Greatest Aspect: It plays on flat screens :D.
You can hook it up to your flat screen TV and the TV becomes a giant mp3 player. Need I really say more. One thing; everything that appears on the teli may or may not still look as great as it does on the player.
I suppose that all I have to say about this little guy. It portrays beautiful colors, the size is perfect [about 4in, covers a good portion of my hand], great video playback, pretty good sound without headphones, has 7.5GB.
If you're feeling tight on money or you just don't want to spend much and you don't mind doing a little extra work, then I would recommend this to you.
One last thing. I think the on/off switches are a bit redundant. I would definitely read the manual before going in head first so that you don't misunderstand anything.
Ordered from amazon.com.
