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Summary: Great mp3 player!!!
Review: I think this mp3 player is one of the best that has 32mb and it really compact so you can fit it in your pocket. One con about this is that it only has 32mb but it doesn't matter because you can just buy more mb and put it in your player. But all and all it's great and I really love it.
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Summary: Gahahahahahah what a steal!
Review: I did alot of reaserch befor deciding on this mp3 player. I looked at CD players MD players and MP3 players. CD players are to big and skip so i threw those out of the picture, MD players dont skip very often or not at all but are extreamly expensive and no one sells any stuff in MD's and writing songs to an MD takes forever (so says my freind). So i focused on MP3's and when i saw this one i was amazed at the price and at first i though there was somthing wrong b/c [price] for an MP3 player with a nice big backlit display and all the other nice features that come with this player is a very good deal. I read all the reivews and looked at all the specs, I found no one had any serious complaints and the player it self looked good to. Plus its upgradable, its got firm ware and you can increase the storage to a max of 160MB (untill they make larger smart media cards that is). When i got it I was amazed at how easy to use it was and how great it sounded, and even tho it says the lcd screen is hard to navigate thats not true, if you have half a brain you can get it. Also I saw no problems with the software that came with it... it was quite nifty. I could crank up the sound untill my ears blew off so no problems with power:) If your looking into getting any type of music player get this one! you wont regret it.
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Summary: Great player but some missing info
Review: Anyone out there looking for an mp3 player should take a hard look at this one it is one of the greatest players out there
Pros
Great sound, really fast in transfering, easy to use after you read the user manual,...and very small.
Cons
...The Nomad IIc which the Nomad II has FM tuner capabilities, don't buy the 128 MB smart media card I bought it and it is not compatible with the player I thought it was probably my computer I call viking to viking support and told me that Nomad IIc was only compatible with 64MB or 32 MB and not with 128MB
So with all this buy it but beware of the things that I told you, but I am pretty happy with my Nomad IIc I wish I could find a cover for it like the ones that cellular have so I would not be scratching it or things like that...
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Summary: great product!!
Review: it's [inexpensive] and works very well.
unfortunately it only has 32 mb build in memory, so you have to either download 64-bit mp3s or get a smart media card.
the software took me almost 3 minutes to figure out; it was fairly easy to use, even though the interface isn't all that great.
the transfer rate is very good
i recommend buying this, buying a more expensive one would be a waste of money, unless you want the fm radio, car adapted, etc.
you can actually buy those all very [inexpensively] in the accesories kit
although, if you're willing to spend some more money, go for either the regular Nomad II or the Nomad II "MG"
anyway, back to playing my mp3s!
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Summary: Mislead on Features...
Review: After reading "All the great features of NOMAD II at a price you can't resist" from Creative's site and looking at Amazon's nice large pictures I thought the "C" really did have all the features of the NOMAD II, blah, blah, plus it had the onboard 32 so it looked like a really good deal over the original II. But it DOES NOT have FM radio, which I found out today when it was delivered. Also the picture Amazon has of this product showing the FM tuner IS NOT an actual picture of this product. It works great for me with itunes and OS X but I wanted the FM tuner....
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Summary: Good product at a great price
Review: I purchased this product a few weeks ago and my experience has generally been good. But its far from a perfect product. I gave the product 4 stars because it has a number of shortcomings, but for the low price I'm willing to look past that.Pros:
* loaded with features, like graphic equalizer and voice recording
* relatively intuitive software
* excellent sound quality
* built-in USB connectivity (no cradle required)
* expansion slot for smart media cards - they keep dropping in price so buying expansion cards down the road will be much cheaper than paying a lot for 64MB or 128MB of internal memory today
* uses standard formatted smart media cards, so I can swap my memory card between my digital camera and the Nomad without reformatting Cons:
* software CD wouldn't install on my Windows 2000 system. I had to download everything from the web site
* downloading songs to the Nomad is a bit annoying because the Nomad treats the internal memory and expansion memory as 2 different blocks. So you have to seperately load each part of memory. It would be much more intuitive if it treated both internal and expansion memory as one continuous piece of memory
* when viewing the list of songs on the Nomad, the titles don't scroll
* inserting and removing an expansion memory card is cumbersome
* the base of the Nomad has a small rubber piece that always comes off, no matter how much I try to keep it in place. I finally gave up and threw the rubber piece away As you can see, the Nomad isn't perfect but its priced right
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Summary: Great Features
Review: I especially like the voice recording feature. It's great for leaving myself reminders. It comes with 32MB internal memory and now you can upgrade with a 128MB smart media card for a total of 160MB, so you can fit a decent amount of music on it.
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Summary: Excellent product and price
Review: I did a lot of research before buying my mp3 player and I know these reviews help, so I'll try to be as detailed as I can. At frist I was unsure about buying an mp3 player because they hold so few songs. I thought about buying a 64 or 128 megabite player but was turned off buy their very high prices. I began researching the nomad II and found that it had 32 megabites of built in memory, which means that there is no smartcard involved with the original 32 megs you get. Then I started looking at the prices for smart media cards. I was originally going to get a 128 bite card, but again the price was too much. I settled for the 64 megabite viking card. I went for the viking because it was cheaper and just as good as the competition. In fact the only differce is the name. With the built in memory and the 64 MB card i can fit about 30 mp3 files onto my mp3 player. This is the perfect amount for me. I get about 1 and 1/2 to two (2) hours of music(all files were mp3 files, not WAV). The other thing I wasn't sure about was how well the software would be. I have over 300 mp3 files on my hard-drive and I use MusicMatch as my default mp3 player. At first I thought I would have to transfer all of my musicmatch mp3's over to the Creative Labs software. To my surprise, the software for the nomad II accepted my MusicMatch files and I was able to transfer all of them to the mp3 player no problem. If you're wondering how long it takes to transfer mp3 files, it's pretty darn quick. It only took me about five minutes to add a fresh 30 or so songs to the nomad II. The battery life on the nomad II is great. On average you get about 10 hours of battery life, which is pretty good considering it's only one battery and my cd player only gets 12 hours of battery life with two batteries. Some other reviews said that the menu navigation was difficult, I found no problems and it only takes a little tinkering with to get all the controls down pat. The only problem with the nomad II is it comes with no ...instruction booklet. You have to get the instructions off of an adobe acrobat file. That's a big pain in the [behind]. The other software that comes with the player is ... obsolete. The only program I kept installed was the Creative sound lab so that I could transfer mp3's to the player. I will continue to use MusicMatch as my mp3 player and I'm sure your other programs like Real Jukebox will be more gutsy when It comes to listening to music on your computer. All in all the nomad II is the best for the price, and I would recomend buying additional cards to expand the memory.
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Summary: Excellent Purchase
Review: This is my first mp3 player and im very happy with it i was burning music onto it within 5 minutes it is very easy to use the price is excellent,the sound is crystal clear, if you are looking for your first mp3 player i highly recommend the IIc
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Summary: Whoa! Am I dreaming??
Review: Wow! 32 Mb, Voice recorder, and a whole bunch of other features that are almost equivilent to the Rio 600 and its almost half the price! I have never seen anything like it. I have seen some with the same price but not with the same features. You get the most bang for the buck on this player. Anyone who says stuff like the battery cover broke, or they couldn't get their headphones out of the connector, etc, etc, they really don't have one. Though, I have found a few flaws in the Nomad 2c, and they are, that the rubber dust cover on the USB connector looks as if it were to break, but I am just not sure. And the smartmedia slot is inside the battery compartment. I think the cover may just not close with the card in there but I cannot be sure because I hvae never tried! ALSO! I'm sorry *Cough! Cough!!* I just don't think that 32 MB is acceptable. I mean, just look (hear). If you encode an audio file to 64kbps WMA format, it sounds really bad especially if there are a lot of drums, cymbols, or any percussion like that. it sounds static-y or in otherwords, REALLY BAD. actually anything under 192 kbps is just bad. my suggestion?? get a smartmedia card. what kind you may ask?? get a Sandisk 64 MB of Viking 128 MB. But anyways over all this is the best player ive seen and heard (after the smart media cards) for the price so BUY IT NOW!
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