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4.5 stars
"I love it."
Pros: Excellent interface, clear screen, well executed touch sensitive buttons, great sound quality out of the box.
Cons: Screen could be a little bigger
Summary: I just picked this up yesterday, and I have to say it is the best player I have ever used. I was a little put off by the touch sensitive interface because I haven't seen it done well on any other player, but it works perfectly. It comes with an excellent pair of head phones, considering they are freebies. It interfaces with Windows Media Player surprisingly well. I never liked using WMP, but it wasn't a horrible experience. I got my entire 2,000 song library on my player in about thirty minutes, I wasn't watching the clock so that is an estimate. I still don't know if I am going to jumo all over the Napster To Go thing but it is nice to have that as an option. I will come back later and update this with a more hands on review.Updated
So I have now had this player for a while longer and have put it through a few more tests and a little bit of abuse. I have no problems. I do notice a few things that are a little weird. If you make a large playlist like 75+, which really isn't exactly large, it takes a while for the playlist to load. Normally this wouldn't bother me, but the problem is during the loading the time out clock is running so right when the loading of the list is complete, it times out to the now playing screen. Okay that's not a problem just back track to the playlist, but then the playlist loads again, it can be an endless cycle but I figured that just tapping the scroll pad whileit is loading keeps the screen active. Sometimes when it is on the now playing screen, when you try to back a screen, it just rolls back to the now playing screen. You basically stay on the same page no matter how many times you press the back button. But then if you hold down the back button you go back to the main menu, problem solved. I work at Best Buy and I have always gotten a lot of customer feed back from my customers. The response on this one is about fifty-fifty. A lot of people are experiencing freezing and haulting of the OS. I have not experienced this at all. I still love this player, I think the touch sensitivity is amazing. It interfaces extremely well with WMP10. Overall, I think this is still an excellent player. I think half of my customers just didn't know exactly how to take care of the player. I still recommend it everyday, with a warning.Updated
This will be my final review on this player. I have had it for about a month now and I just wanted to get my final impressions to you. I have had no problems what so ever since the last review I wrote. I have started using the "On the Go" playlist option. I actually find it very easy to use and I love that you can save the playlist on the go. I still experience some lag when loading a large playlist. As long as the list stays below forty, I haven't had any problems. Overall I think this is an excellent player. I still recommend it everyday. If I were to experience any technical difficulties with this player I would have had them by now, so I think I am in the clear. I am still expecting the battery to die eventually and there is always the chance something else will go wrong so I have my replacement plan that will cover all that. I highly advise you to get this player over an iPod.
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Wait until you've owned it for a while. Why would you post a review when you JUST got it? Wait until you are familiar with the device and it's been working well for a while.
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I turned on my go gear this morning it seems to be frozen. I can't even turn it off. has anyone had this type of trouble? What did you do?
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Zen Sleek Color
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How do you think this player matches up against the
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Does anyone know were you can go to find pitures of the rest of the devise? I have only been able to find this exact same picture. Also, how reliable is this product? Has anyone ever experienced any problems with it? Especially the touch sensitivity which I am worried about? How about a comparison to the Dell 30g, From what I've read this definitly has more functions, plus the adition of the color screen and suposedly MUCH better audio performance. Hope you can help me out, I've been looking at this thing forever and really want to get one, but im still not sure about it.
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Do you know if Best Buy will? I dont need 30GB of space.
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Thanks for the info, sounds like you have been evaluating this product fairly. With your experience working at Best Buy, I was wondering how it compared in a quiet environment with other Mp3 players as far as sound quality, sound stage, and hiss ? I noticed in Philips own specs that it is rated as only 82db signal to noise ration, which would lead one to believe that Philips may have sacrificed sound quality or ignored it in order to keep prices low. Other mp3 players have higher and in some cases much higher s to nr ratings and Ipod seems to keep theirs a secret. Creative in particular (although I think their design is poor) claims up to a 98db s to nr level, so this leaves me a little concerned as to how it performs in the real world not just on paper. I've been waiting for this one since I heard of it and it still isn't available here in Canada yet. Any one else who has experience with this beauty and cares to comment would be appreciated. As well I am curious as to how the earplugs fit and if they come with adjustable sizes. Thanks.
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I have been watching this product for months, i was just wondering where you picked it up??
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