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Summary: Too bad..it was a good product...
Review: when I purchased this a couple of years ago. I was initially very pleased with it.The sound was fantastic,and the thing was so easy to install and use.Then...I got one faulty disc after another,and they all got jammed in the player,so I had to take it apart and remove the disc..not difficult but it got old real fast.So I gave up and bought a different mp3 player,and gave the hipzip to someone who didn't mind dismanteling the player every ten minutes.
It's really a shame,I think.I had such high hopes for it.
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Summary: HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY
Review: THIS THING IS AWSOME. THE MEMORY DISKS ARE CHEAP AND HOLD ALOT. THE HEADPHONES SUCK SO U SHOULD GET THOSE STREET STYLE ONES. VERY DURABLE. BLA BLA BLA JUST GET IT IF YOU HAVE THE DOUGH BUT IF YOU ONLY HAVE 200 OR SO TO SPEND GET A RIO 500
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Summary: M. Morrison from south Texas
Review: Well, I was nervous about buying this for my husband. Neither of us really knew much about any of the MP3's. He thought you could get one that held 1000 songs without a CD player! Anyway some nice guys helped me out at Circuit City explaining the MP3s. I was almost ready to buy the Rio, but I decided to go over to Best Buy and compare prices. Good thing I did. While Circuit City was a little cheaper, a salesman who owned a HipZip told me about his and how he like the cheap price of the disks. They happended to have a HipZip at their other store in San Antonio, so I went over and purchased it, and ordered a 10 pack of disks for $100 from Iomega on the internet. They offer an additional $20 rebate. I opened it to try it out with the music on the 2 discs which come in the package. I used my favorite Sony headphones with Bass, it sounded great!! I'm so excited about how easy it is to change the memory. I am reading that the transfer time from the computer is very fast. The only thing I have found out that I didn't know and worries me, is that the battery is not replaceable. I hope it lasts 3 to 5 years then for the money spent. My husband will love his Christmas present for sure though. Go Buy one today!
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Summary: Not quite there.
Review: I traded my Rio 600 (after a static shock fried it for the HIPZIP). The good things are that it has excellent sound! Sounds a lot better than my Rio ever did. The headphones that come with the HIPZIP (KOSS) suck! They are terrible so you will have to use some other headphones. The display is nice and well laid out with plenty of information on the screen with a ticker scroll of current song information. This guy has a rechargeable battery on it that last for 12 hours on a single charge (or at least a long time for me 5-6 uses)! The buttons are nice and easy to use and the carrying case is very handy. My RIO 600 never had a clip or a case so you had to have pockets in order to take it with you unless you wanted to hold the thing in you hand the whole time. One of the really cool things about the HIPZIP is the memory. "Clik"'s are cheap (well $10 a disc but cheaper than other MP3 memory systems). They hold 40mb and you can get a bunch of them to make a collection of music discs you can just swap out on your player real quick. Reminds me of MD technology. IT doesn't skip at all (I tried really hard to skip this guy. It is like a MD play but it would not skip, Iomega did a great job on this feature). The really cool and the best feature I liked about this product was how fast and easy it is to add songs to a "CLIK" disk and delete, really smooth! Now for the challenges the HIPZIP has. The pause function is worthless! If you pause a song and leave it there for 30 seconds the player turns off. Why? When you turn the player back on you have to start from track one again. My RIO would remember the place you pause so when it went to sleep it would come back on to where you paused last. Plus I could set the amount of time on the RIO before it went to sleep (1min, 2min, 5min....never). You cannot program the HIPZIP. One thing I liked about my RIO was it had a Clock (so I could tell how long I went riding or running) on it, no clock on the HIPZIP. One thing that annoyed me was the fact that going from one track to the next there was a .4-.6 second load time from track to track. This is really a long time that your ears can detect and I did not like this. Its really annoying to have this stop and go affect in your head as you are working out or even working. One thing I don't know if I like or not is the 40mb "CLIK" disk. Yes its cheap, cheaper then memory flash cards, it holds more than 32mb which is what a lot of the MP3 players have now a days, and they don't skip like MD. But I don't want to carry around a bunch of discs. I would rather spend the money on a huge memory card (128k) and that would be enough for me! Maybe if the "CLIK" held 80mb it would turn my opinion. And my last challenge for Iomega is make this guy smaller. It is the size of a Walkman. The other MP3 players out there are almost half the size of this guy and a lot lighter. I bet 2 of my old RIO 600 would almost equal the weight of one HIPZIP. And get some new headphones! I think I am going to try the RIO 800 or the Nomad II MG next.
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Summary: HIP ZIP great for laptop users
Review: This is a good MP3 player. It has one of the cheapest $ per Mb media costs for any MP3 player. This means you can buy several zip disks, and make pre-made music mixes. This is great for people with limited time on their hands. The unit is durable, has about a 9 hour battery life and is easy to use. It shows up as another drive on the computer when hooked up with the USB cable. Simple. Whats bad about it? No radio. This seems like a simple component to add to almost any MP3 portable and yet I am surprised at how few have them.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: I purchased the HipZip about a month ago and was excited to receive this MP player. The sound quality was good, however, the player became "jammed" a number of times and I had to constantly reset the player to have it begin playing again. Given its price, I believe that it should have performed better.
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Summary: Just buy it already!
Review: Anybody on the fence about buying an MP3 player should be willing to make that investment when it comes to this player. I purchased mine 3 days ago and I was very nervous for it was my first MP3 player. Well, after the two days of shock and uneasiness as to if it works or not, I am completely satisfied. It really is designed for easy use. The things I like (at least the ones that pop into my head at this moment. 1) It's drag and drop file transfer a) or for the more organized, MusicMatch (which comes with it) makes file transfer more organized. 2) Size, it clips easily onto my belt clip 3) With accessories it can be linked up to your car stereo just like a CD Player 4) The Clik memory disks are very small and hold a good fifteen songs. Their price is unbeatable. I am having a great time experimenting with this product and any kinks in the beginning, I hate to admit, seem to be user error. Thanks! bye 3)
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: Very easy to use, the software is excelent and you can afford to have as many disks you want. Compared with the price of flash memory is 1 to 10 difference, one disk is 10$. Also the design is cool.
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Summary: singin' zipdrive?
Review: An impressive piece of machinery, the Hipzip is a dream come true for me. For a scientist/music buff, the Hipzip is a dual purpose device : e-data storage and two-way transfer; mp3 playback (WMA, WAV are also compatible). For an mp3 player with some moving parts inside, it is surprizingly sturdy and ergonomic. Very nice to look at and a beautiful carrying case I might add. Its USB link is so fast, that I upload 4 to 5 MB songs or files within 5 TO 8 seconds! Unlike some other industry driven Mp3 players, this player allows two way transfer of all files up to 40MB at a time using your explorer to dragg and drop selected data and/or mp3 files onto E drive (letter assigned to the hipzip). You may also automatically execute all file types through your computer and thus listen to music through your computer's sound card output! Don't forget that The Hipzip comes with MusicMatch, although I prefer Winamp's simplicity. Nevertheless, MusicMatch is a powerfull ripping and encoding software that comes in very handy. One important reason I'm sold to the hipzip : the 40 MB funky looking disk called pocketzip is today 10 US$ when you buy a pack of 10, while the 64MB flashcard is 200 US$. How does that compare? At this price, you can even afford to lose a pocketzip or two! One final note : despite what Amazone claims in the Hipzip specifications area, the hipzip allows random, repeated and random repeated playback modes. So it's a multipurpose device, which will make you respect Iomega for being so considerate of our integrated/integration needs. You can bet that Iomega is working on a 80 or 100MB pocketzip. When that baby comes out, and considering the excellent (Li ion) battery life, the hipzip will be the mother of all singin' zipdrives... Cheers Iomega!
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Summary: Best MP3 Player
Review: At first I was a little cautious about paying ... for the Hip Zip when there are cheaper alternatives. However with the ability to buy individual disks for a reasonable price.(less than ... each) I decided to go for it. The Hip Zip has worked great. I travel frequently and like it as well because I can save any type of file on the disks. It is also quicker and easier to get my songs on to the Hip Zip than my experiences with other players. I am absolutely 100% satisfied with this product. Although the Hip Zip is a little more right now. It was definately the best buy for the long run.
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