- 1.8 inch color touch screen display for showing menu and lyrics
- Plays music and video, has an FM radio and also functions as a digital voice recorder
- 4GB of internal memory, built-in rechargeable battery
- Drag and drop file transfer
- What's included in the package: Media player, USB cable, and earbuds
I bought it with the intention of it being a miniature way for her to watch her videos (and thus leave my cell phone alone!) I have not tested out the ease of the mp3 portion, only the video. That's where it gets tricky.
You can only use AVI files of a certain size. While it is easy enough to add content to the player (drag and drop works just fine), making sure that your file is usable is the trick. There are several pieces of software that are on the internal drive of this player. After a failure on the first, I decided to try to download any number of free-ware (partly due to the fact that the 'converter' was only a trial edition!) Even though I was following the specifications included in the documentation, I would drag and drop only to get a 'format error' show up on the screen.
I was ready to leave a really negative review.
Finally I went through the tools on the player one more time and discovered one I'd missed. It's called mp4 tool, and it really DOES work with a practically one-click setup. Dragged and dropped and FINALLY got a workable file.
So do be prepared for some trial and error as you figure this out.
The interface on the screen seems pretty simple. I was a little disappointed to discover that even though the front screen is picture-driven, once you are in the video's folder the files are textual ... this is not a problem for me, but remember that this is a present for a four-year-old who does not know how to read yet. She picks her movies based on picture and graphics clues. I see a lot of "Mommy can you put (insert movie name here) on for me?" in my future.
I did not test this with the included earphones, because I didn't want to disentangle them before gifting this. I used a pair of dollar-store earbuds and the sound was okay. But please bear in mind I am not a huge audiophile who has to have the perfect surround sound and am satisfied with mediocre!
I will probably update this after my daughter has had it for a while to comment on durability.Its no iPod, but for the cost it does everything i need. i take this to the gym, so i just set the thing to random and listen. the headphones are decent, not great, but decent, and pretty loud. i have no issues hearing anything over the sound of the machines.This product is a really cheap buy, I used to own a few cheap iPod nano knock off MP4 players back when the iPod video came out and wrote a top 100 guide for them on ebay back in the day. I bought this expecting to get a similar product but boy was I wrong.
Lets start off with the design. It is shaped like an iPod shuffle but boasts a touchscreen with an AM radio and video playback. The constuction is bottom grade. It makes those Mp4 players I used to own look like like top of the line products. It uses low quality plastics and it looks like it was designed in a hurry. The metal portion of the player is low grade aluminum but is sturdy enough for normal use. The touchscreen is less then usable. The touch layer sits too high off of the display and you have to do finger smashing to get it to register. The display has poor color reproduction and is such a low resolution that watching videos on this is little more then a novelty trick.
Software
The interface is severely limited. The arrows do not do anything, it's a cheap trick to make you think it does more then it really does. It says it supports folder browsing to organize your music but only makes a list of all the songs on the device with no folder browsing. The radio does ok but it does not pick up radio stations very well. for a 1.8 inch screen it should have enough space to browse your music with no problem, but the resolution is so low that you cannot even read half of the song names.
Audio The audio amplifier is so low powered that even at maxed out volume the audio can barely comfortably be heard in a slightly noisy place like a gym. The signal is dirty as well. As mentioned the Audio player does not even allow folder browsing. It just loads a single list of all the songs onboard.
This product is little more then a scam using outright lies to get you to fork over some cash. If you want an overglorified iPod shuffle then you should be happy with this product, otherwise if you are looking for a feature rich device at a steal of a price then you can do way way better for about 10$ more. I would give it a little higher reguards if the touchscreen wasnt an absolute pain to use. The only person I would consider giving this to would be a young child looking for a toy to play music and videos, that is if they can muster up the strength to press the touchscreen.It is only built for music. That's not so good for me because I listen to a lot of audio books. So the music and the books all get lumped together with no way to seperate them. No playlists. It is not even your standard touch screen but it works well. All in all though it is a good player.
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This Mp3 player is a pure knockout. It works and exceeded my expectations. It has so many functions for a really good price. Everything about it is perfect, from design to functionality.
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