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1.0 stars
"Syling-Colorful; reliable no."
Pros: Colorful, works most of the time, if you don't mind reloading your files often.
Cons: Data loss and corruption. Poor button position.
Summary: A handy little device, it suffers from mediocre to poor implementation. The dangling fob serves no purpose. The strap for carrying the device attaches to a different point than the fob and does not cosmetically match. Nor does the device include any sort of body strap for athletic use, something its styling and marketing (splash resistant) would suggest it was intended for. The volume and forward/rev buttons are directly opposite each other making it so that pushing on one side, you have to put resistance on the other and often end up pushing a button you didn't intend to push.
The most singular strike against this device, however, is that it simply doesn't retain the files that are put on it. It suffers from "data corruption", something I have never experienced from a flash device. As best as I can determine, when reading the data, for some reason the device essentially puts the files in a writeable state even when you are just playing them, so that if it suddenly loses power (battery dies?) it will corrupt data. I don't know if there are other possible causes, but I noticed as I played songs that more and more of them would suddenly stop in the middle of the song and then it would move to the next one. The coup de gras for this device is that it will then loose all track of the contents of the FAT, so that you can no longer play your MP3's until you can get connected to a computer and reformat, losing all of the contents, so if you use it for file transfer/storage as well, like I do, well ...
Tech support actually hung up on me when I was trying to get help and a post to their forum was ignored by their resident support guy - that is, when the tech forum is up - it was down for a couple of days in a row right after I posted my question.
Where to buy
Ultra Hydra MP3 Player (1GB, orange):
$25.90
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