I got myself a new mp3(4) player I thought I would share with you guys.
I had a zune and sold it, I also have owned several ipods. After either losing them, breaking them, or getting them stolen, I decided to buy a cheapo mp3 player now.
I got a 4gb ME2 Chinese ipod clone one off ebay for $42 shipped!
Its pretty slick for $42, does mp3, video, fm radio, e-books, voice recorder, photos, and games.
I don't care about anything except music though.
What I really like is it acts like a thumb drive when you plug it into your computer, just comes up as a storage device and you just drop your mp3s in, no need for any additional software/drivers.
It also comes with a wall charger, headphones, and a silicone case.
In all honesty I think its better than an ipod, its about 1/4 the price so if it gets smashed, lost, or stolen its not as big of a loss. It also has a bigger screen.
The only down side is the UI. Its not that great, its not intuitive like you would think, but once you get used to it, its not horrible either, just kinda awkward for a while until you figure it out.
Also the "boot time" is slow, take a couple seconds for it to turn on, and then even after it does you have to select music right away, it does not save where you were, IE video, music, e-book, etc...
There also doesn't seem to be a hold feature, the switch on the top is the on off switch. Which I guess for me isn't a problem since I only use mp3 players in my car.
The manual as expected is pretty much a joke, its all engrish, here as some good excerpts:
This machine is a new generation digital Walkman, which support MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, WMV, ASF, WAV format. It has perfect sound effect, extreme stability and smart feature, which make it to be the handicraft of the master level. And we sincerely hope that it can bring you wonderful comfort.
Volume Adjusting:
Shortly press "VOL-", to decrease the volume.
Shortly press "VOL+", to decrease the volume.
USB disk using:
The player is the standard USB disk function thats supports windows 98 (Need install the drive procedure), above win2k (needn't install the drive procedure)
Anyways, if you guys wanna pick one up you need to stay away from "hacked" mp4 players. People will list them as 4GB or so, which anyone assumes is 4 GigaBYTES. But inreality it is 4 GigaBITS. When you plug it in it will show up as 4 GigaBytes, but if you format it, or try to put 4gb of music on it, it will crash the player.
This is the link to the one I got, this seller seems to be pretty good:
And heres pics of it:
I had a zune and sold it, I also have owned several ipods. After either losing them, breaking them, or getting them stolen, I decided to buy a cheapo mp3 player now.
I got a 4gb ME2 Chinese ipod clone one off ebay for $42 shipped!
Its pretty slick for $42, does mp3, video, fm radio, e-books, voice recorder, photos, and games.
I don't care about anything except music though.
What I really like is it acts like a thumb drive when you plug it into your computer, just comes up as a storage device and you just drop your mp3s in, no need for any additional software/drivers.
It also comes with a wall charger, headphones, and a silicone case.
In all honesty I think its better than an ipod, its about 1/4 the price so if it gets smashed, lost, or stolen its not as big of a loss. It also has a bigger screen.
The only down side is the UI. Its not that great, its not intuitive like you would think, but once you get used to it, its not horrible either, just kinda awkward for a while until you figure it out.
Also the "boot time" is slow, take a couple seconds for it to turn on, and then even after it does you have to select music right away, it does not save where you were, IE video, music, e-book, etc...
There also doesn't seem to be a hold feature, the switch on the top is the on off switch. Which I guess for me isn't a problem since I only use mp3 players in my car.
The manual as expected is pretty much a joke, its all engrish, here as some good excerpts:
This machine is a new generation digital Walkman, which support MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, WMV, ASF, WAV format. It has perfect sound effect, extreme stability and smart feature, which make it to be the handicraft of the master level. And we sincerely hope that it can bring you wonderful comfort.
Volume Adjusting:
Shortly press "VOL-", to decrease the volume.
Shortly press "VOL+", to decrease the volume.
USB disk using:
The player is the standard USB disk function thats supports windows 98 (Need install the drive procedure), above win2k (needn't install the drive procedure)
Anyways, if you guys wanna pick one up you need to stay away from "hacked" mp4 players. People will list them as 4GB or so, which anyone assumes is 4 GigaBYTES. But inreality it is 4 GigaBITS. When you plug it in it will show up as 4 GigaBytes, but if you format it, or try to put 4gb of music on it, it will crash the player.
This is the link to the one I got, this seller seems to be pretty good:
And heres pics of it:
R.I.P 07/01/09 - 04/23/10 :(
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