Eclipse T180 1.8-Inch 4 GB Touchscreen MP3 Player (Silver)

• Plays MP3 & MP4 Files
• FM radio
• Voice Recorder
• Clip-on style
• 4GB

It has many features, some are poorly designed. Here are the main issues I noticed:

1. The touch screen, it seems to be a plastic film on top of display and there is a gap between. The film bends when I touch it with sound I guess that the film get stuck with then peel off from display. The response of touch screen is OK, but far more poor than the touch screen that I have used before.

2. It has decent 4GB internal memory, but when browse the music, it lists all the songs, without option to choose playlist or folder first. The small screen can only display 3 songs at a time, it's very hard to find a song.

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This was a really good product. The sound quality is wonderful, and the memory is expandable up to 16GB. I would suggest buying this instead of an iPod nano 6th generation. This is much cheaper and is has the same features and more.I hope this review helps.

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I bought two of these for kids at christmas. They love them. I tried it and the sound quality is great and it's easy to use. The kids like the touch screen navigation. I like that it can be expanded with an sd mini memory card. I would buy this product again.

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Archaic software,very difficult to navigate through. Sound quality is terrible, a lot of static, like if you were listening to something that was a couple of rooms away. I'd recommend saving up, and purchasing a better quality player.

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The "Touch" version doesn't work. The original one -with the latest firmware -does. The original one has great sound, a decent if somewhat fussy user interface and an acceptable price.

I started out with the original Eclipse 180 -the one that looks rather like an Ipod but with a clover-leaf selector instead of Apple's donut. The first one of these had a problem -put too many MP3 files on it and the internal tables overflow and you can't access 'em... Sigh.

But this limitation appears to have been fixed (?) with the latest microcode/firmware release. Or at least it's different. Anyway, I got a second (cloverleaf) one that appears to work better... This is the one with the "flashing solar eclipse" logo. (The original one just flashed the name.)

So then I found this "Touch" screen version -the "T-180" "small square" version that you see here -available locally and decided to try it out from that source 'cuz I could return it. That was an important advantage, as it turned out.

This Touch Screen version simply doesn't work. In fact, IT IS TERRIBLE!!!

I started off with a smapling of my MP3 files organized into folders/albums. On the non-touch player version these folders/albums are recognized. You scroll down through a folder and select an "album" or a piece of music. I have mine set up with about 8-16 or so selections per folder/album, and -for testing -only about a dozen or so albums.

But The Brain-dead "touch" screen unit "flatens" all the files, so I am left with trying to find one file (or the start of an album) from among the total of 16 (selections/album) TIMES 12 (albums), or a total of 16 x 12 selections. That means that I must scan through a total of 192 selections in just my "testing" setup!

With the album divisions removed ("flatened") all I see are the individual files/"songs"!

It's nigh-on impossible to find Anything from among the hundred or so selections that I loaded for testing with all the album boundaries removed. The little "window" in the unit is limited to 3 "songs" at a time. And you thought that "Texting" led to distracted driving!!! (So these things would probably be *Illegal* for use by drivers in the State of California...)

Let's see. I think it was around the DOS 2.1 days that we got to use directories. (That was well over 20 years ago, folks.) Silly me that I should expect such a feature on a 21st century product. Sheish.

So the unit is going back to the store regardless of the 15% restocking fee. It's too tiny to use as a boat anchor. (Tho I guess you could still use it as a $20 4GB oversized "thumb drive"...)

But if you want to actually USE an Eclipse 180 player for other than a non-selectable "background-music" machine (or as an overgrown thumb drive), do NOT get the "Touch" T-180. The Original "cloverleaf" Eclipse 180 (with the current firmware) appears to work ... so get that one. (I came up with a work-around for the old firmware version, too; so the original 180 appears to clearly be the right choice in all cases!)

As an engineering manager friend once observed, the development team on this product should have had the time they worked on this charged to their vacation.