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4.0 stars
"FM Radio is the stellar feature"
Pros: FM, compact size, AA Battery
Cons: Advanced navigation is hard to learn
Summary: I bought the 790 256Mb on the heels of PC Mag's Editors' Choice award to the predecessor model 390. I have been quite happy with great sound quality. I commute 3 hour / day by bus and with this unit I can listen to uploaded music, FM, and language lessons. The small amount of storage still allows for around 8 long CD's, and I delete the least desirable songs after a while and add new music. FM is decent while blasting down Hwy 101 to SF, as good as my car reception. Equilizer has great profiles (rock, metal, classical). Limited storage may be seen as a con by some, but it forces management of what you really want to listen to more than once. The only con is that one button can start recording from FM, almost always by accident instead of intentional.
If you want to 'shuffle' you can, but is that how you want to play your music?
The iRiver software works well in Windows XP for uploading and managing contents on the player.
