To hell with that Cupertino Fruit Company, if you want a full-featured portable audio player check out the iriver s10, not much bigger than the iPod shuffle but bringing a 1.15-inch 128x96 OLED screen and FM recording, too.
The 2GB flash-based player is pendant-small at 1.6 inches x 1.2 inches and it's just a third of an inch (10mm) thick, plus it weighs far less than an ounce, only 1.
9g heavier than that screenless shuffle.
That screen saps the s10's battery life a lot quicker than the shuffle, though, lasting just eight hours. No matter, we'd rather wear this pretty-screened bauble around our necks than go clipping on a gray object that looks like a half a stick of chewing gum like all the other sheep will be doing.
But that's just us.
Actually I think the clip idea is a good one.
You can close up a bag of chips with it and stuff.
Uhh to show what song is playing?
And apparently also to control it..
. I dont see any buttons.
Well Other than Volume +/- on the side.
Anyone have a website that actually has information. That Cnet site just has like measurements.
Support: ASF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, BMP
Interface: USB 2.
0 via dock (audio jack ???
)
Support: MP3, AAC, Audible (formats 2, 3 and 4), WAV, AIFF
usb via dock seems a bit odd to me, don't know how they'll up the speeds to real usb 2.0 over that. As far as open formats go the iRiver seems way better.
Personally the clip does it for me. Not as a main player, but for running and excercising I'll probably get a shuffle. However as a main player?
Don't know yet - personally a flash version of the iAudio 6 would be ideal - they're open access and design makes me prefer them over other similar products.
I purchased an I-River S10 while here in Korea. I have had it for about a week.
Here are my observations:
The sound is excellent. The headphones are nothing special (I bought some Sony EX-51's, which don't clip hold, but sound great for around $30. You have a lot of control over the bass, field width, there is an EQ, etc.
You have a fair amount of functionality here. I also demo'ed the I-River S7, which is about the same size, but doesn't have a screen. Sound seemed identical (through stock headphones), although the S7 has an external button to change between some preset audio settings (less functionality, but great sound).
I sometimes wish there were a preset button on my S10, as clicking and hunting through menus on the S10 can get annoying.
There is a problem with the clock. It keeps time UNTIL you start going into settings menus and adjusting things.
Then, for some reason, the clock falls a few minutes behind. The problem compounds itself over time, and a few days later, you'll find your clock is off by 10 or 20 minutes. This is probably a firmware issue they haven't figured out yet.
The clock is fine if you make no settings adjustments to the unit, but you'll find yourself changing settings all of the time.
The S10 (and S7) both play loud and clear at various volume levels (until maybe above the 85 to 90% level, where some distortion is present). No problems here, and there is plenty of good sound.
My biggest beef with the S10 is that it took me 15 minutes to figure out how to set the screen so that I could watch the "dancing lights" without the screen going black. And I still fiddle with it for 3 to 5 minutes every time I attempt to change this. The menus are very confusing in this regard, and there are different settings in different locations controlling what happens to the screen saver and the LCD backlight.
They are two different entities in two different places. Sometimes, you are required to push and hold the right side of the screen to save a setting, but you're not necessarily prompted to do so. The same can be said for finding some menu items, which you wouldn't know were there otherwise.
And yeah, the reviews about the software are correct. Use it to update the firmware from time-to-time, but otherwise forget about it. It's easier to simply drag and drop the files via Windows.
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