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4.5 stars
"One of the best DAPs around"
Pros: Playlists, Search Options, Sound, Gapless, Crossfading, User-replacable battery, 12 GB for 200?/200$
Cons: Batterylife could be better
Summary: I have the vibez for 3 weeks now and I'm truly impressed with what it can do.
First I considered buying an iPod nano or a Zen Micro Photo, but the vibez beats both of them.
The sound is awesome, the battery is user-replacable, navigating with the wheel is very easy after 5 minutes.
The playlist options are better than anything else on the market, as is the searchfunction.
The vibez is detected as a mass storage device by Windows, Linux and MacOS, so you can simply copy the files you have. It supports everything save AAC and you don't have to convert anything.
The only thing annoying me is the batterylife, which is closer to 10 than to 20 hours, but since batteries are available for 20 ? and are user-replacable, that's not too big a problem.
I can't wait to get the dock with infrared remote control to hook it up to my stereo...Updated
As I read the iPod nano 2nd gen review, some things stick out:
You gave the nano an 8.3 rating and made it an editor's choice. But there are only 3 things that the iPod does better than the vibez: battery life, album art and size.
Like mentioned in the vibez review, they are equal in style. The display's the same size. The vibez is cheaper, sounds better, has a larger capacity, better search options, better playlist options, can record via mic or line-in, has the optional FM tuner on the inside instead of attaching it on the outside and there is even the possibility of purchasing the videocard.
So why only the 7.3 rating? Because it's not Apple? Because being smaller outweighs the mentioned advantages the vibez has over the iPod? Almost everything you criticized on the iPod is there on the vibez. And more. Yet there is a whole point difference between them... which i wouldn't mind if the vibez got a 9.3...
But I think when it comes to iPods, there is no being impartial...
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