20GB MP3 PLAYER

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Product Description

25 Days of Muic! iRiver H10 20GB Audio Juke Box. Imagine having enough music in the palm of your hand to play for 25 days! iriver's H10 20GB audio jukebox can play up to 600 hours (25 days) of digital music (using Windows Media format at 64kbps) with its amazing 20GB of internal storage. The elegant iriver H10 features a vivid color display for simple navigation and viewing your digital photos, a rechargeable battery and a digital FM tuner. Its slim, lightweight design makes it easy to take anywhere. Includes integrated voice recorder. Features ultra-fast USB 2.0 data transfers. The iriver H10 20GB Remix audio jukebox supports MP3, WMA, JPEG and TXT files. Enhanced 3D audio supports SRS WOW(tm). Comes with iriver earphones, carrying case with belt clip, USB 2.0 interface cable, installation CD and AC adapter. Requires Windows XP (Service Pack 1 or higher), CD-ROM drive and USB port. Enjoy hours and hours (even days and days) of music with the iriver H10 20GB audio jukebox. The elegant iriver H10 20GB plays up to 600 hours of digital music. It also features a vivid color display for simple navigation and viewing your digital photos, a rechargeable battery and a digital FM tuner.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41923 in Consumer Electronics
• Size: 20GB
• Color: Blue
• Brand: iRiver
• Model: H10 Blue 20GB
• Dimensions: 7.00" h x 3.00" w x 10.00" l, 1.00 pounds

Features

• Digital music player/recorder with a 1.8-inch, 20 GB hard drive for more than 330 hours of audio (128 kbps)
• Compatible with MP3/WMA audio files, JPEG image files, and even TXT documents for light reading
• 1.8-inch full-color TFT LCD supports up to 260,000 colors, rendering your favorite digital photos with breathtaking clarity
• Integrated Microsoft Windows Media Player 10 simplifies media management
• Internal battery gives you about 16 hours of continuous playback between charges

Amazon.com Product Description
The iRiver 20 GB model H10 is the perfect portable digital player/recorder for true music and audio enthusiasts. Hardly bigger than a deck of cards, its 1.8-inch hard drive has space for over 5,000 songs (128 kbps MP3, 4 minutes per song) or more than 330 hours of music. Yet the whole player measures just 2.4 x 4 inches (W x H) and less than an inch deep. Sensibly arranged controls--including an intuitive central touchpad--make it child's play to setup and use, and an internal battery delivers up to 16 hours of non-stop music between charges.
But the H10 is about more than just music. It comes complete with a brilliant, full-color 1.8-inch TFT LCD that supports up to 260,000 colors, rendering your favorite JPEG digital photos with breathtaking clarity. (Yep, it does slide shows, too.) What's more, an integrated text viewer lets you lose yourself in paperless novels, news, essays, short stories--you name it.
A built-in microphone facilitates use as a voice recorder, with 3 quality settings to choose from. The unit also features a built-in FM tuner with a choice of automatic and manual channel-search functions, including 20 station presets for one-touch tuning to your favorites, especially handy for traffic and news updates when you're out and about. An antenna built into the supplied headset ensures crystal-clear sound quality, and a timer lets you set the H10 to record radio programs with real-time MP3 encoding at specific times of your choosing.
The H10 is PlaysForSure compatible and fully integrated with Microsoft Windows Media Player 10, which makes it even easier to enjoy your digital media. In addition to a range of options for managing digital content, you'll enjoy fast access to the H10's "digital media hall," where you can scavenge the virtual shelves of numerous online shops (including Napster To Go) in search of cool songs old and new. With the player/recorder connected to your PC, you'll be able to purchase and download songs straight into the H10. An auto-sync function synchronizes music and image files on the H10 with those stored on your PC, just like a PDA.
Icing on the cake, the H10 also a guaranteed head turner with a high-grade aluminum casing whose purist elegance is as pleasing to the eye as the touch.
What's in the Box
Digital music player/recorder, stereo earphones, a carrying case with belt clip, a USB 2.0 interface cable, an installation CD, an AC adapter, a user's manual, and warranty information.

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Customer Reviews

Great player, lots of features, some annoyances
One of the great things about this player is you do not have to install any special software; just drag a folder of MP3s over to it. The best feature is its future potential; the manufacturer brags 'firmware upgradeable' on the box and an Internet search reveals an active user forum and homebrew software available.

I actually found a use for the text file viewer-- it is a handy way to keep track of a new workout routine. Sound quality is good enough for loud rock music while mowing or working out.

There are some minor annoyances in the software. The equalizer does not have enough frequency ranges and introduces some noise. There is not a clear indication when you disable the EQ and turn on the SRS feature. The picture display is cool, but no zoom and pan - even my cell phone does that. However, these are all minor bugs that could be fixed with new software.

One of the advertised features is line in recording - but you don't get the line input jack unless you buy a cradle. Hmmm, why not just use the line input jack on your computer sound card and save the money. I would rather have had a line input and/or a mic jack on the unit itself than the wired remote control jack - the iriver is about the size of a remote control itself so I am not sure what the logic was here.

Like I mentioned earlier these are minor annoyances and I am generally impressed with the performance and sound on the player.


I'd rather have an H10 over a basic 20 GB iPod, anyday.
Where to start?

Well, feature-wise its far superior to the standard 20 GB. For the same cost as the afore mentioned iPod you can have the same amount of memory, in a slightly smaller and slightly lighter package. It includes a built FM tuner (which is unavailable in iPod's, and unfortunately you need to purchase external adapters for your iPod to even play the radio), voice and FM recording (another feature that the iPod can only obtain via an adapter), a color screen (whihc is now becoming a standard feature and has recently been added to iPods). It also gets a longer battery life than most of the competition, including the iPod. Also, its compatible with a wider range of file formats than the standard iPod, including .jpgs.

My one knock on the H10 is its medicore navigation. While it's touchpad won't cause songs to change, fastfoward, rewind, or pause as it slides around in your pocket (like the iPod tends to), its not very ergonomic. The vertical scroll touchpad gets the job done but its not as cool as the iPod's wheel.

Pros:
-Comaptible with a wider range of files than the standard iPod.
-Picture Display.
-Color Screen.
-Accessories (which can only be ordered from the iRiver website since iPod seems to have a monopoly at stores for shelf space).
-Built in FM tuner.
-Built in voice and FM recorder.
-Smaller and lighter than the standard 20GB iPod.
-Being able to use Real, WinAmp (with plugins), and FooBar (also with plugins) allows the sound files to maintain their quality, which iTunes actually tends to deminish (particularly the bass and treble).
-Better built in equalizer and even SRS Wow features.
-Larger variety of online music stores that you can order music off of.
-Large color variety. It comes in red, blue, platinum, and gray.
-Doesn't get scratched up like the iPod's tend to (because it doesn't have a metallic back).

Cons:
-Inconvenient navigation.
-If you want accessories like cradles, car adapters, boom box and/or stereo adapters, and replacements for lost accessories, you'll have to order them off of the iRiver website. Theres nothing wrong with this, but it requires a wait and the extra charge for shipping and handling. However, you can pretty much use any iPod accessorie that only requires the headphone jack, (since they're universal) including some of the nicer Bose surround sound and sound canceling headphones.
-Not as pleasing to the eyes as the simple, curvy, plain white iPod.
Best you can get
Let me start off by saying that I have owned or used many mp3 players. Iriver h120, h320, rca lyra, ipod(not the color one), Creative zen xtra, the new samsung, and many more. The only mp3 player that beats this one is the h120, and you can't buy that one anymore. No software is needed at all. plug it into your cpu, go to my computer, and drag and drop. it took 35 minutes for me to transfer 3200 songs. has fm, fm recorder, and timer for the fm recorder. Nice if you would like to record a morning show or something while your at work. Turns on instantly, great sound quality, easy navigation. People say the albums are not in order, rename your files via musicmatch or what ever and have the track number first. this will solve that problem. You can search for your music or files with the browser function. Very nice if you like a more computer type of navigation. This is currently the best mp3 player on the market, I've only metioned a few features of this player. If your into electronics, this is the player to get. If your more about being cool and don't mind software that controls your music then I would suggest an ipod. In my eyes this player has the ipod beat in every area, with the exception of acceseries. Not to bash the ipod of coursel. Even I'll admit that the ipod is pretty cool and if it wasn't for all of it's restrictions, I would buy one, if there was no iriver of course.