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- Reviewed on: 10/05/2004
Measuring 1.41 by 3.74 by 0.69 inches and weighing just 1.13 ounces, the MP-900 is petite and light. The blue backlight is a bit dark, and while you can adjust the contrast, you can't control the brightness. Also, we noticed that the unit's silver facing is overly prone to scratching. Unfortunately, the MP-900 doesn't ship with a protective carrying case.
A small joystick on the right side of the BoomGear MP-900 controls fast-forward, rewind, and volume functions. A quick press of the joystick calls up the music folders; push and hold to reach the menu options, which are relatively slim. As for system options, you can switch the backlighting (between red, green, yellow, and off) and the contrast; adjust the sleep and power-off times; and change the language between English, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese. During MP3 playback, you can adjust the equalizer, the speed (normal, fast, or slow, with the last two producing some comical effects), the play mode (the usual shuffle and repeat options, plus a Scan mode that plays the first 10 seconds of each song), and the ID3 tag information. The player comes with 256MB of onboard memory, but it features a handy Secure Digital expansion slot for adding as much as an extra 256MB of memory.
EQ selections include four presets--Flat, Classic, Pop, and Rock--and a five-band user-defined mode. As you listen to music, you can toggle through these choices by pressing the Function button. The FM radio includes an autoscan function, which runs a search, then saves the first 20 stations it finds. Unfortunately, the MP-900 was never able to locate more than 3 stations during any of our tests, though there are many more than that in the Chicago area. More troubling is that the device defaults to mono rather than stereo mode when you're listening to the radio. You have to press the Function button to switch to stereo mode, and there's no way to set this as the default.
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