Portable Multimedia Players

A NICE LITTLE NUMBER

Advantages: fantastic sound, expandable memoery
Disadvantages: Not very intuitive, USB cable provided far too short

This is a wonderful little player, miles better than the ipod as it has a built in FM radio plus you can expand its memory till your heart's contect via any SD card. It plays most file types and the sound quality as well as FM reception even on a moving train is outstanding. Videos have superb quality and the screen is reasonable in size. The phone cord acts a a very sensitive aerial and is long enough to improve recption even in the heart of the ...
...screen capability but for me the ability to expand memory via an SD card and to be able to listen to FM radio more than compensates for this. A clever accesory is a charger (supplied separately) that enables you to switch from one plug to another as you travel from country to country. ...

RALPHIE41 23.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Creative ZEN X-FI

Sony MP3 NWZS638 FS Good, Reliable and Ordinary

Advantages: Great sounding MP3 player with lots of battery life
Disadvantages: You may find it a little expensive if you are not going to use all its features

I was looking for an MP3 player suitable for use whilst out running. Not wanting to become one of the IPOD generation, I looked at a number of alternatives. This got my attention because of its size (similar to that of a IPOD Nano) and the simple controls. I like this device because it does exactly what I needed it to do. For me, it plays music at a decent volume with good clarity, perfect for drowning out the cheesy music getting played in your ...
...couple of the other features it boasts is the video capabillity and a form of automatic music cataloging. I found that whilst these are, in theory, great extras, I have not made use of them. I find the screen to be too small to watch video for any length of time and I prefer to make my own playlists. ...

JackBlizzard 23.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sony NWZ-S638F

Creative's pride the new Creative Zen

Advantages: Excellent audio, loads of features, price
Disadvantages: A bit sloppy video

...really a heartening arrival from Creative planners and it seems this highly rated organization is getting their acts together. They have had lot of promise and Creative Zen, the latest arrival from their pipeline has established that they have the capacity to live up to the expectations. I always thought that user or customer feedback network is essential the success of products which have to cope of with such massive international competetion and ...
...look and a feel of Creative Zen it struck me that this was designed to compete with iPods at a reasonable level, being an iPod heater, Creative Zen has hardly meant a threat to the iPod community. In terms of technology and quality it’s yet to reach the class to give a reasonable challenge to Apple iPods. But all said and done Creative Zen has definitely got the class, as far as the audio players are concerned, to remarkably enhance Creative’s Audio ...

roktimdutta 09.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Creative ZEN

A definite iPod alternative and beater in my opinion.

Advantages: Sound quality, price, ease of use the list goes on.
Disadvantages: Sony Walkman's need to have a wider support of accessories, both Sony branded and also third party

...is my review on the Sony Walkman NWZ-S639. I have up until now been an iPod fan, but I feel that Apple is dominating the MP3 player market and I am a bit confused as to why for the following reasons: 1: The Sony Walkman has FAR superior sound than the iPod, now this isn’t just my opinion but many reviews on the internet point this out too, this is partly down to Sony supplying good quality earphones as standard and also Sony have different sound ...
...Nano, I instead purchased the Sony Walkman NWZ-S639, I paid £101 for the 16GB version. So I basically have double the storage, better supplied earphones (which are superb by the way), better sound quality and all this for less money than the Nano, it just goes to show that the iPod is too expensive. 2: Even with good quality earphones the iPod is far behind the Sony Walkman in terms of sound quality in my opinion. I know this because I purchased ...

fatboyslim 04.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sony NWZ-S639F

The Archos 705 WIFI Media Player

Advantages: Touch screen, large memory, great screen resolution, wireless internet.
Disadvantages: Maximum volume could be better through the in-built speakers

The Archos 705 WIFI is probably one of my favourite purchases of the last 18 months. For its fantastically wide range of features including a touch screen, wireless internet, hard drive video storage (recordings can be made directly from a tv), photo storage and a great music library, this is the best value for money Multi-media player I have come across. The Archos comes with lots of accessories including a car headrest mounting case which is ...

quickmoney 02.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Archos 705 WIFI