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"Excellent full-featured mp3 player" on by saxdavew
Pros: Tiny size; FM radio; great screen
Cons: Poor FM autoscan
Summary: The S10 connects to a PC as a mass storage device, so you can just drag and drop music (or other files) onto it right away without having to install anything. You use the supplied 'iriver plus 3' software if you want though.
The OLED screen is really nice. It's bright, readible and has cool graphics, as you can see in my video of the S10 in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgh6XRcYasc
A drawback of having such a small screen, is that when it displays song titles etc, it has to scroll the ones which are too long. However, it scrolls them vertically which is a bit odd, but not a problem really.
I have reasonably big hands, and it's easily possible to navigate the D-click system with one hand, but it's more comfortable using two thumbs in my experience.
The audio quality is good, as is the FM reception. The FM radio autoscan, however, is
poor and only picks up the most powerful stations. If you tune the radio yourself though, the quality is fine. You can choose between stereo and mono mode for listening to the radio, and save up to 20 preset stations. Navigating the presets is easy, but if you want to name the stations, you need to use the 'iriver plus 3' software.
The S10 can record FM radio in three quality levels:
Low - 64 kbps MP3
Medium - 128 kbps MP3
High - 256 kbps MP3
The built-in microphone can also record in three quality levels:
Low - 32 kbps MP3
Medium - 64 kbps MP3
High - 128 kbps MP3
The S10 also has a clock mode with an alarm that can be used to automatically record the FM radio for you.
I personally havn't found the S10's 8 hour battery life to be a problem. Granted, if you are going to be away from a USB port (the only way of charging up) for more than 8 hours and plan to use the S10 continuously, then the battery life would become an issue. In practice though, if you are low on power and have a USB port available, a short charge will give you a few more hours of play time. The manual says that 1 hour of charging gives you 80% battery life, and 100% takes 1.5 hours. In my experience, the S10 charges up nice and quickly.
I have found the S10 to be an excellent player, and would thoroughly recommend it to anyone who doesn't need a huge amount of memory in an mp3 player. -
"Good choice for the people that won't want to buy the latest iPod" on by kelvinlaw
Pros: Featuring a D-Click interface and small/stylish look!
Cons: 8 hours Battery Life
Summary: Those who know me, know I love my gadgets. I got myself a iRiver S10 recently and it quickly became my favor toy. It provides me almost all the functions I needed. With the LCD display, the size is amazing. Thanks for warehouse123.com bringing the new S10 to the State.
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"Very cute, slick and amazing MP3" on by Samsung Fan
Pros: Very easy to navigate with the D-click system. Awesome sound
Cons: Low battery life. This was bit disappointing.
Summary: I was extremely exited when I got this from a package my uncle sent for Korea. Firstly, don't let looks fool you about this tiny MP3. It is only a notch bigger than the iPod shuffle, yet it does MUCH more than that. It has spectacular sound, easy navigation with the D-click system, colorful screen, and also has FM radio and very neat recording quality. I thought I got a really good pirce for what I paid ($117... weird, the reviewer says its $170 bucks.... haha).
Although its weak battery life was disapointing, I loved its design, portability, and overall the simple plausible feel. I'd recomend this to anyone who wants to get the best deal off an MP3 with $120 bucks. -
"It is a cool miniature mp3 player" on by pravinsha
Pros: good sound quality and lots of GB
Cons: battery power gets exhausted quick and FM antenna not strong enough .
Summary: I like the product very much.
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"cute and amazing ^^" on by iruka*
Pros: size, interface, sound, voice recorder, radio
Cons: battery life
Summary: I didn't buy it,....YES, someone just threw it to me again. The friend who's an iPod lover....the friend I want to kill XDD
But after she got her new iPod touch, she thought this was garbage and just said "here, you love mp3s, keep it". And I was really happy with playing around with it because of the way you can use the sides to navigate. I also really loved how colorful it was especially when the screen was so small.
Sound quality really was excellent, but for someone like me who has to listen to music 24/7, battery life wasn't so great. One charge was like.....a little less than a day. I was left music-less for about 3 hours and that really saddened me.
Other than that, it was perfect. Nice cute size with great audio quality and it also has voice recording and radio. If possible, it'd be better if they could increase battery life, but it's small, so, guess they can't do much about it.
If you don't really mind that and you just like to listen to music while riding the bus, then I say it's perfect for you. You really are getting what you paid for and the price dropped a great deal now. ^^