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Summary: Know what you're looking for!
Review: I have read a lot of reviews that say this item is too expensive, not enough memory... and so on. My advice is, know what your needs are before you make a purchase. Yes, the item is fairly pricey. But the cost of owning the latest technology always is. I've encoding songs using the higher, and lower compression rates, and it's difficult to tell the difference. So,............use the lower rate, thus creating a smaller file, and get more songs on your data card. I typically get about 10 songs per data card. Ok, the cards themselves are not cheap, but they're so tiny they're cool. And after all isn't that the point? I use my I-Jam when I cycle, with some street style headphones, and I don't want to carry around a MD player. I want the smallest, lightest, (yet decent sounding) player I can get.I find that this fulfills my needs, and for me is a good value for what I want. Do not be influenced by the negative reviews, this is a good product!
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Summary: IJ-100 Parrallel
Review: I loved the unit! The small DUAL functioning buttons make it a little difficult to work at times but that's a price I'm willing to pay a unit so small. I throw it in my gym bag and don't have to worry about bringing an extra set of batteries since it only uses 2 AAAs. Even hooking it up in the car with a cassette adaptor was a wonderful experience and its easy to lock in the glove box. I give the unit only 2 stars because I had to purchase a separate MMC device since I-Jam never responded to my calls or e-mails. I had problems with the system recognizing the MMC device in my parallel port. The device was recognized only once before crashing my system. I then tried to uninstall the software and had only error messages returned. After dealing with Microsoft and running diagnostic programs, I learned that the problem was with the MMC device itself. If you don't mind small buttons, then this unit is for you. I love mine and think it is a great little unit. If you have any problems though, just return it where you purchased because my experience has taught me that I-Jam will not be of any help.
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Summary: Viewed at Comdex
Review: I saw this item at this years Comdex event in Las Vegas. The size and features of the I-Jam unit are Awesome, after sampling the audio (cd quality +), and seeing, and feeling how small, and light, yet rugged it is, I knew I had to own one.. Having the luxury to create my own play list from dragging and dropping the mp3 files from my desktop to the memory card is a great feature. I would agree a 32mb card would be nicer than two 16 mb cards, but the 16 mb cards will hold 4 cd quality mp3 files, or 6-8 downloads off the net. I think this unit is by far the best MP3 player in the sub $200 range, it comes will the software and interface device that lets you connect to your pc and download to the memory card the mp3 files you want to listen to... Mine uses the printer port, I think soon they will releasing a USB model.
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Summary: almost the worst mp3 player!
Review: I was really skeptical when I ordered this player. Here's how I felt when I got it: This has to be the smallest player I've seen. You can easily fit it in your shirt pocket and it'll never get in your way. As for the memory: You get 2 16MB cards, which will hold about 4 songs each. It only takes one card at a time, so don't get upset when you can only have 4 songs in the unit at once. As for the songs, you can't play anything with a bit rate over 128 )it'll sound real bad), so keep that in mind. You may have some good music that won't play on this unit. But, I've found I can get any song I want at that rate. This has a real nice case with a big drawback: The cards fit in the bottom of the unit, and the case doesn't have a hole in it. You have to take it all the way out of the case to change the card. The headphones are okay, but I'd pick up some others if I were you for better sound. The FM tuner would be great if you could pick up stations. The sound is good, but stations are hard to get on this little unit unless you are reasonably close to the radio tower. The sound quality is great, and it goes loud too. The bass and treble controls are also great features, especially if you hook this player up to a car cassette adapter. They allow you to fine tune the sound for the best experience. The 2 AAA batteries seem to last good. I'm using the Energizer Rechargable NiMH system they sell here at amazon. Now, the display on the i-jam is less than perfect. It doesnt display the song you are listening to, its hard to read, and the backlight floods out the digits when its dark. You'll keep your sanity with it, though. You can't skip thru songs (fast forward), you can just play them in whole, or go to the next one. All in all, I'm very happy with this player. It was well worth the money I paid. I hope in the future they will have larger cards (64 or 128 MB) that we can afford to buy. If you want a good, rugged, entry level player with some great features, go for it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Ryan
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Summary: Great entry level player with pros and cons.......
Review: I was really skeptical when I ordered this player. Here's how I felt when I got it: This has to be the smallest player I've seen. You can easily fit it in your shirt pocket and it'll never get in your way. As for the memory: You get 2 16MB cards, which will hold about 4 songs each. It only takes one card at a time, so don't get upset when you can only have 4 songs in the unit at once. As for the songs, you can't play anything with a bit rate over 128 )it'll sound real bad), so keep that in mind. You may have some good music that won't play on this unit. But, I've found I can get any song I want at that rate. This has a real nice case with a big drawback: The cards fit in the bottom of the unit, and the case doesn't have a hole in it. You have to take it all the way out of the case to change the card. The headphones are okay, but I'd pick up some others if I were you for better sound. The FM tuner would be great if you could pick up stations. The sound is good, but stations are hard to get on this little unit unless you are reasonably close to the radio tower. The sound quality is great, and it goes loud too. The bass and treble controls are also great features, especially if you hook this player up to a car cassette adapter. They allow you to fine tune the sound for the best experience. The 2 AAA batteries seem to last good. I'm using the Energizer Rechargable NiMH system they sell here at amazon. Now, the display on the i-jam is less than perfect. It doesnt display the song you are listening to, its hard to read, and the backlight floods out the digits when its dark. You'll keep your sanity with it, though. You can't skip thru songs (fast forward), you can just play them in whole, or go to the next one. All in all, I'm very happy with this player. It was well worth the money I paid. I hope in the future they will have larger cards (64 or 128 MB) that we can afford to buy. If you want a good, rugged, entry level player with some great features, go for it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Ryan
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Summary: Not bad, but ...
Review: I've been using the I-Jam for a week now. Here are mythoughts. Overall this is an excellent product. I bought theplayer mainly for use while running because of the fact that it has no moving parts and so can be shaken without interrupting the music. On this score - 10 / 10. It performs beautifully. It is a perfect size and the FM radio gives you something to listen to when you are bored of the MP3 tracks that you have downloaded. Just a few minus points. 1. It eats batteries - I think this has something to do with the fact that if you "pause" the player rather than "power off" - it doesn't "auto-off" after a while. 2. I bought the Parallel version and haven't been able to get Win2000 drivers for it.I wrote to the Tech Support group a week ago about this - no reply. END
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Summary: Not Quite Ready for Prime Time
Review: I-Jam has a lot of promise, very small and includes an FM radio, but does not support RealMedia files and customer support is lacking. Errors occurred during software installation; and, the cable for the scanmedia did NOT include a printer connection. Also, I had difficulty reaching I-Jam for support (unanswered phone calls and Email). When I finally did reach them, they were not very friendly. After this, I bought an RCA Lyra and it's been quite good.
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Summary: Dont buy an mp3 player!
Review: If you are rich as hell, go ahead and buy it. But for the price your paying for this, you could get a great Mini Disk player, and even plenty of discs for over 2,000 minutes of recording time. Dont believe me? Goto the Mini Disc section and do the math! Even better, you can record mp3's onto the MiniDisk players, you can also record your voice, your playstation/N64/Dreamcast, VCR, TV, Radio, Tape, everything! I almost bought an mp3 player, and im glad i didn't. MP3's are too expensive compared to Mini-Disks, and if you look at the Mini Disk trend right now, its exactly like the CD trend 10 years ago. They are already making Mini Disk drives fro computers to store info. Just check out the Mini Disks before you buy this, trust me, you'll thank me. If you have any questions, email me, Ill answer them asap!
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Summary: Very portable and with an FM stereo too!
Review: The I-jam portable mp3 player is the most affordable (and available) mp3 player with an FM tuner. The sound quality is excellent for such a portable unit. The one improvement might be the inclusion of 1X32 Mb card instead of 2X16 Mb cards. Overall, I am extremely pleased with my purchase!
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Summary: This product is great!
Review: The small size is really a plus. I particularly like the fact that one could actually adjust the BASS and TREBLE as desired. The availability of an FM tunner puts this product above its equals.
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