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2.5 stars
"Can be made better with a slightly bigger LCD."
Pros: Lightweight/compact, average battery life
Cons: Small screen, no playlist support
Summary: Black color adds to the appeal...aside from the featured SD-card expandability and average battery life of more than 12 hours (I say average because this is near Creative Zen Vision M and Ipod Video 30GB models' current battery life of 14-16+ hours).
The LCD is too small and what I don't understand is that there's lots of space below the central control buttons...a space which could have been put to good use by bringing down the controls when using a slightly bigger LCD screen that can accomodate necessary file info while playing a particular file...unliked the cramped up view of the FY800 series (512MB, 1GB, 2GB and even this newer 4GB). I don't mind if the LCD is monochrome, since I personally would just like to listen to music and am not particularly fond of watching compressed videos in small mp3 player screens (note: I do know that the FY800 doesn't play any video...I'm just justifying why the monochrome LCD is acceptable to me).
If you scrutinize this mp3 player more, the sliding switch at the right side looks as if it'll wear out after a couple of days use.
Probably the most appealing feature is the SD card expandability. However, this review by CNET hasn't tested the maximum number of folders or number of mp3 files that is supported by this mp3 player. It's easy to say that the number of files that an mp3 player can hold is dependent on the size of the built-in flash memory or HDD, TRUE, HOWEVER, take note that some mp3 players despite their added SD card expandability, have a "file cap limit". A good example is the Astone 1GB A/V player (which I also have)...despite being expandable up to 2GB SD card, the music software can only recognize the first 300 songs (any songs beyond 300 is left out and can not be played...although the songs are still in the 2GB SD card if you browse through them when connected via USB to your PC).
Maybe this CNET review should also verify the MP3 file limit of the MPIO FY800 model...because a 500-song or 800-song limit will completely make SD card expandability (for placing more songs) almost useless...were it not for using the SD card also as a "data flash drive" if this mp3 player/device does happen to have any mp3 file cap limit.
I'm yet to reach the 300 song mark (since I haven't converted all my other files to 128kbps bitrate); but should this mp3 player prove to have a limit of only 500 songs (despite having more space in my 2GB SD card) I'm returning the product since I can't take advantage of the SD card expandability in terms of more mp3 files stored.
I have the 1GB MPIO FY800 model by the way and I'm using a 2GB Transcend 150x SD card with it...which gives me 3GB of storage space for mp3 songs...will probably get the 4GB version as soon as it is available in the local stores. For now, I'm going to try to fill my FY800 up and check for possible file limits.
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