iRiver H10 (20GB, Trance Red)

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  4.0 stars

  "Solid choice"

  by cedelman on December 23, 2005

  Pros: Sounds good, .txt capable, Good FM radio, picture viewer, Pretty good screen....PRICE!!!

  Cons: Charger/USB connector have to be used together. You can't edit the menus. Rew/FF buttons for radio tuner are backward - the up arrow moves tuner down. no removable battery.

  Summary: I've finally decided on an MP3 player. After reading countless reviews and trying out several from Best Buy and returning one, I think I finally settled on one. Although I'm not too excited about the way this looks, it'll grow on me I'm sure. I bought the Creative Zen Sleek, which in my opinion is light years ahead of this in styling, and it seemed promising but after I used it I just had to return it cuz the FM reception was poor and the recording has a whine in it everytime the hard drive spun up and down. But that's another review. As far as the iRiver goes, I like it. I mainly needed it for recording and FM recording and it seems to have a pretty good Tuner in it. It pulls in stations (albeit a little staticy) that the Zen Sleek didn't get at all. I dislike the rew/fwd buttons to tune the radio because the display shows the stations from left to right whereas the buttons are on the side of the player and are up and down. So when you press the Up button, the radion tuner number goes down. That is backwards in my book. But it's not really that big of deal....just a quirk.
  
  I wish it had a removable battery. It's still pretty new and I haven't had any problems with the battery yet but all batteries will eventually start to not hold a charge as well so I hope it's not going to be too expensive when it does go bad.
  
  I don't like the fact that you can't change the menus around. (The Zen Sleek you could though)I don't organize files by albums or artists or anything like that so it's irritating that I have to use their ideas of organization. But to get around this, I just go into the broswer function (which is nice) and view all files and this solves this.
  
  I also don't think you can delete files from it by itself. (unless i don't know how) This is annoying cuz you have to connect to a computer in order to do that.
  
  I like the fact that I can just drag and drop songs on this like a folder in windows and I don't have to install and learn any new software on my computer. (When are peripheal companies going to learn that we don't like their crappy software and NO! i wouldn't like a free 6 month trial to AOL!!!!)
  
  Now this isn't a big deal but it made me feel better about buying it.....it came with a free (included) rubber protective case. It's just nice for companies to give you stuff like that. Even though it only costs them like 10 cents to throw that it, it's makes me feel like, "OH look, they threw in a 'free' case too." Sort of like cracker jack mentality.... "free prize inside". Plus I don't have to shell out 20 or 30 bucks for an aftermarket one.
  
  Plus this has a cool feature that you can make this look and function like an additional drive on your computer. You have make sure it's not connected to the computer and turned off, press the reset button, connect it to the computer, and then press and hold down the select button as you turn it on. This makes it boot in some mode where your computer sees it as a big drive. That could come in handy!!!
  
  So all in all, the fact remains that it has way more features than anything else in it's price range. I got it from Best Buy for 269.99 with a $50 gift card, kinda bringing down the price to 219.99. At that price, it's a no brainer. And it does what it's supposed to. As far as I'm concerned, it's the one to get.
  
  I didn't give it a 10 because of a few quirky things but nevertheless, a good bargain.

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