IRiver H10 [5GB color] 5 GB > Reviews

Advantages: Small, Light, Battery Life, Capacity, Stores pictures, text, music, data
Disadvantages: Poor software

...market at present ...... winner iRiver H10. I managed to pick one up for £100 (see my Unbeatable review) but the going price is £165 at present. Expect this to fall as they are shortly to being out a 1Gb and 20Gb version. The Criteria ---------------- (i) I wanted a decent storage capacity so do not have to continually reload different music (ii) Must be small and light so that I will carry it around (iii) Price must be reasonable - technology ... Read review

Advantages: Sound quality, build quality and features.
Disadvantages: 1 dimensional touch pad.

...week later it arrived. The iRiver H10 comes in 3 sizes and 4 possible colours - mine was the 20Gb blue - as pictured. You can also get red, white and black. The 20Gb is the max size for this model which is unusual considering the older H3xx series went upto 60Gb although I suspect this is to cut down on the bulk of the player or it may be a tactic on iRivers part to keep their photo mp3 players and their more feature laden video media players more ... Read review

Advantages: Tiny, built in radio with presets, records radio as mp3, records sound, has amazing colour screen, can do everything you want it to and 6GB portable hard drive to carry your files
Disadvantages: Small 1.5" screen, no built in speaker, special usb connector

...which helps in scrolling, and IRiver has wisely abandoned the oversimplified folder structure that it used on previous hard-drive players. Now you can easily browse by artist, album, genre, or song title. Music sounds good if you upgrade to a better set of headphones than the included earbuds. The H10 does more than play music: You can also listen to and record FM radio programming, record audio via a built-in microphone, display text files, ... Read review

Advantages: Features - music, recording, pictures, text, radio, Colour screen
Disadvantages: Sometimes it crashes (press restart button)

I would recommend this mp3 player to all potential buyers. I bought this mp3 loking at the specification of the mp3. My own mp3 was a midnight blue 20gb. I think that this is a great mp3 because not only it stores many music as an mp3 player should do, it also has image viewing for putting your pictures onto, a text viewer for reading, voice recording to record whatever you want as well as having the option to listen to the radio. The colour ... Read review