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Summary: There is one drawbback
Review: The built-in 32mb with the psa(play)60 gets you about 25 minutes worth of music(not the 60 minutes that is advertised) if you have decent quality mp3s. The sound quality is great and I have yet to hear the device skip. The only drawback is that most people do not realize that you need to download firmware from riohome.com so that you can have the choice of internal and external storage. This piece of information is not on the cd that comes with the device when you load Audio Manager. After visiting a newsgroup, I found out about the firmware and have been able to download to the 32mb MMC card I purchased for the device. I have no complaints with the sound, just with all the grief that went into getting 45 minutes worth of music.
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Summary: A combination of bad quality and worst customer services
Review: The device I bought worked for three months, then went out of sound. Then I realized how bad the service is. First, their service phone# is not toll-free, and it's not in service any more because SonicBlue bought S3. The bad things keep going. The SonicBlue customer service phone# from their website is not toll-free either, no one ever answer the phone. Then the only way to communicate with them is e-mail. The automatically returned e-mail never answer the correct question you ask. Finally some real-person retruned the e-mail and asked to fax the information to them. Then no further response any more.
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Summary: Cludgy interface, Battery sucker, good plastic
Review: The interface to upload music is terrible. Windows media player 9 receives errors everytime I tried to upload new music. Put in new firmware to fix the battery sucking problem and it has not helped. I have a CD player that gets longer time on one battery than this piece of junk. The display is so tiny as to be useless. Stay away...Far away. I felt like a sucker buying this thing. The only redeeming quality is it feels nice.
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Summary: Good player for the sports minded and inexpensive
Review: The player was great for it's size and and quality I really like teh fact that it uses the samrt media cards which has the smallest size of all the memory card out there. The software is not very functional I don't evn use it I use the MS Media 7 player which is much betther to use. but it holds a tone of music( in WMA formatt ) and the cards makes it easy to carry a variety of music with you.
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Summary: Dont waste your time
Review: The product is inferior. Nike chose to re-release the psa[Play line of products with Philips, because Rio couldn't deliver a working unit.
I have just sent it my 2nd unit, to have it replaced, and it has been 8 weeks. All of sonicBlues phone numbers have changed, and all of their emails have changed. And when I dial their NON-toll-free support lines, no one can help me, because its a legacy product.Dont waste your time. It might be a cheap unit, but you dont get your money worth. Although it will likely work for the first 3 months, it'll will be forever a pain in your thigh after that. I will never buy from Diamon/Rio/SonicBlue again.
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Summary: Inexpensive, but not Incompetent
Review: This is a very very good mp3 player. The price is it's best feature. But I am a student, so money is more important to me than anything else. I do know enough about mp3 players to tell you that the quality is great, and the hardware is mint! The LCD is crystal clear, and the head phones rock. The only thing I found disappointing was the software. I found it primative(which is good for people not to familiar with computers). I don't even use the software for anything except downloading the music (there are other features like skins and playing songs [something like a cheap winamp]).
To summarize all this, the system is great, the software is easy to use, and in my opinion, it is a GREAT buy. ps. You can only upgrade it to 96MB, not 128MB like some websites say!
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Summary: Beautiful but Flawed - applies to the psa play 120
Review: This review applies to the psa play 120 which is the same as this but with twice the memory. This little player has lovely lines and texture, is very tactile and robust. Unfortunately it is spoilt by some quality and functional issues. Good points:
Looks and feel.
Sound quality is good.
Has a good quality armband - but it does slip (slowly) down if you exercise wearing it on your upper arm.
Has a belt clip - You can use either the clip or the armband but not both at the same time. Bad points:
If you leave the battery in the player it runs down, regardless of whether or not the player is switched on. This is really annoying. Get rechargeable batteries - it's cheaper and more ecological anyway. The remote is difficult to operate and gets confused. I have not used it since the day of purchase. The headphones are not suitable for the sporty purposes of the player. They are the most bizarre in the ear design that directs the sound forwards and backwards rather than into the ear- if you run with them you get inerference from wind noise. You need better headphones - Koss (s)portapros are great. The software is not very flexible. E.g. I have not been able to get it to recognise files that it didn't record itself. Connecting with the pc is either unreliable or complicated - i.e. when the software fails to communicate with the player, either it is doing something wrong or I am - impossible to know which. I have found a usb port that seems to work consistently now - I suspect it is my mistake rather than the software's. If you record mixed cds (i.e. DJ mixed) the player puts small gaps between the tracks on playback. The lock player facility is incorporated into the on off slider switch between on and off. This is crazy - its too easy to switch the player off when you are trying to lock it. When you pause the player, it suffers from long term memory loss - after a relatively short time it forgets that you paused it and starts at the beginning when you press play. Despite these flaws I have not tried to get it replaced, because, after all, it is quite a lovely thing.
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Summary: Cludgy interface, Battery sucker, good plastic
Review: what i was looking for was something durable that i could run with, bike with, and basically never have to think about. it just plain worked. i had this little guy for over two years, took it on a bike trip across canada, dropped it on pavement several times, had it soaked by rain several over & over again. finally, after one too many rainy days, it packed it in (but as of yet, i have yet to find a waterproof mp3 player). here's what i didn't like:
- the headphones were rediculously uncomfortable and i bought new ones immediately
- i never see the point of remote controls, so i just never used it & can't comment on it
- periodic difficulties usually caused by a malformed mp3 that would play fine on my computer but not on the mp3 player
- the software isn't the greatest, but it does the trick however, to me, the *only* thing i'm concerned about is durability & battery life. i was very impressed with both. i should also mention that it has a lock so that none of the buttons get pressed accidentally while you're riding/running.
Rating: 
Summary: solid
Review: what i was looking for was something durable that i could run with, bike with, and basically never have to think about. it just plain worked. i had this little guy for over two years, took it on a bike trip across canada, dropped it on pavement several times, had it soaked by rain several over & over again. finally, after one too many rainy days, it packed it in (but as of yet, i have yet to find a waterproof mp3 player). here's what i didn't like:
- the headphones were rediculously uncomfortable and i bought new ones immediately
- i never see the point of remote controls, so i just never used it & can't comment on it
- periodic difficulties usually caused by a malformed mp3 that would play fine on my computer but not on the mp3 player
- the software isn't the greatest, but it does the trick however, to me, the *only* thing i'm concerned about is durability & battery life. i was very impressed with both. i should also mention that it has a lock so that none of the buttons get pressed accidentally while you're riding/running.
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