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"Incredible" on by Mathemusician
Pros: Everything
Cons: Very Little
Summary: I have had the good fortune to compare the iPod Nano, Cowon D2, and 2nd Gen Clix side by side, and I have to say, the Clix blew the other two out of the water. I've always found CNET's reviews to be very accurate (most of this is in response to another rating), and would have say that they hit this one dead on. The interface is incredible, the sound is incredible, everything about this player is incredible. I would advise anyone who's looking for a high-capacity flash player to heavily consider this, and to ignore the troll that rated it a 5. The only bad thing I can say about it is that it doesn't support line-in recording, but it's better to do that with your computer any way. Great Job iRiver!
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"Definately one of the BEST" on by xj220gt
Pros: AMOLED!!! Flash 2.0, perfect sound quality,D-click system
Cons: screen size.
Summary: You can definately tell the difference between the cowon d2 and the iriver clix 2. The clix has a much nicer looking screen, the cowon screen looks all washed out, i can imagine what that looks like when your out in sun light. The cowon does have expandable memory, but up to 6 gigs total from one card and the unit..... those cards arent very cheap and its not like we want to carry them everywhere with us,multiple cards arent very fun. another thing, its big and heavy... not to mention pretty ugly. I had never tried either mp3 players before, but i have looked and read a lot about both, I ended up buying the first clix, that thing has worked out very very good for me. plus, the Dclick system is great!!!
Check out the prize fight, the D2 lost to the original clix -
"Beauty comes with a few flaws" on by David2011
Pros: Intuitive interface, beautiful AMOLED screen, excellent sound quality
Cons: Seems fragile, complex features, subpar battery life
Summary: The iRiver Clix 2 contains almost every desirable feature including an FM tuner (high quality), video, picture, and games, but some of features are difficult to use.
While sound and pictures are great, I haven't a clue how top put video and more games on the player. I seem to get incompatability problems with these features, nevermind the fact that the iRiver software doesn't even recognize my device. It didn't help that the battery seemed to drain very quickly (faster than advertised).
I also didn't like how small the screen was, especially given the enormous space on either side of the AMOLED screen. 2.2 inches is small (think RAZR LCD). It's gorgeous of course, but video seems silly with something this small. Video is so so so much better on 3 inch screen or greater.
Nevertheless, I found the interface to be better than the iPod because you can potentially do four things with one page, whereas with the iPod, navigation is strictly linear.
Bottom Line:
If you want an uber customizable and featured mp3 player than get the iRiver Clix 2, but if you aren't so good at technology, don't care about features, or want a screen big enough to watch video without going cross-eyed, then get another player. -
"Amazing Features, Sonic Quality, Simple to Use" on by Lawrence Lee
Pros: Clean & Customizable Interface, Features, Sound Quality
Cons: No Line-In Recording, Middling Battery Life
Summary: Had a lot of players. Tried the iRiver iP700, Clix 1, Creative Zen, Nano, Cowon D2, iPod Nano.
By far the Best Non-iPod player made. Not much functional change from the first generation. But then again they nailed the features on the Gen 1 player.
This is the only player that rivals the iPod in the user interface department. Screen themes and fonts are totally customizable. Amazing and Beautiful. Check it out on Youtube.
It blows the iPod away in terms of features.
FM Radio and recording, SRS WOW, Voice recording.
The sound quality blows iPods away. In fact in terms of sonic quality iPods a decidedly worse than practically every player out there.
Shame on you Steve Jobs!!! Why can't you made a decent sounding player.
Let me stop my rant...
This player would rate a 10 if it had Line-In Recording. The Gen 1 Clix had this feature. What gives?Updated
Had a 4GB Clix and Upgraded to the 8GB model. They've Improved it.
The new Theme GUI is a thing of beauty and improves the "Now Playing" manu and other displays.
Now the orientation can be rotated 4 ways instead of just 2. An important feature if you want to use the player on a neck lanyard.
Pay the 50.00 extra and get the 8GB you won't be sorry. I'm elated.
I'd now give this player a 10, but Cnet does not allow that to be changed... -
"even better than i'd hoped" on by palmcrash
Pros: beautiful screen, very customizable, simple usage, excellent sound, syncs with multiple music players
Cons: wish a 16GB or higher version was available
Summary: It's thinner than I had expected, and when you turn it on, all you can say is "wow" at the beautiful screen. The flush "D click" interface is not only sleek, but very intuitive. You can also use the player in any 90 degree angle (portrait & landscape), which I assigned to the "smart button".
Frequent firmeware updates add/enhance new features (1.15 enables music to play while playing flash games). Free, customizable/expandable themes, TTF fonts, wallpapers, equalizers, and games are great.
My only wish is there was a 16GB+ version and that you could customize the white font color and size (I want black for use with light wallpapers, and some larger fonts like Tahoma are clipped vertically in play mode). Perhaps the font size/color will be customizable in a future firmware update. Text display mode does allow for font size adjustment, however.
Btw, videos are 30fps, not 15fps (was in 1st gen) as mentioned in some reviews.
Best of all, I'm not limited a single software, proprietary music format, nor player manufacturer (iStuck). Clix syncs fine with iRiver Plus3, Windows Media Player 11, and even Music Match 10 (the best player until they sold out to Yahoo, imho).
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