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Summary: Excellent Product
Review: got this 3 years ago. very happy with the 10 hours of use on 1 AA. i have dropped it a couple of times, cover comes off which helps lessen the impact and i put the cover back on and all is well. software is musicmatch which works well and it supports all the formats i am aware of WMA, MP3,MP3Pro and WAV. small and light enough i take it when i travel and run. my only quip is the memory size, but it offers expansion with the MMC which is cheap enough these days. overall, excellent product.
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Summary: Miles ahead with PAP3000
Review: I am an endurance athlete, and my Intel Audio player has joined me for hundreds of miles on trails, roads, trainers, and gyms. I am very pleased with the performance, durability, ruggedness, and easy of use. When compared to many other MP3 players, this was by far the most robust. I clip it to my waistband and onward I go. The life expectancy of most of my running radios are less than a year, so I was nervous about the investment. A typical failuer is the headphone jack, or getting wet, or dropped too many times. For well over a year, training for 4 marathons and an Ironman, it has stood all the punhishment I can deliver it.Pros
Robust Design
Simple Operation
Great Sound
Battery Life Cons
Buttons, can be tough, but robust Overall, if you want an MP3 player capable of keeping up with an active lifestyle. This is a great choice.
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Summary: Awesome player for the money!
Review: I have been using my PAP3K virtually every day at the gym for the last 18 months and it has always worked reliably. The belt clip sucks, but I just took a lanyard from a trade show badge and clipped it to that. I can walk/jog/run, bike, row, use the nautilus equipment, and a whole variety of other equipment without fear of the thing getting damaged. Heck, it's even water resitant enough to take out to the local water park during the summer and float around the tube pool. I added an extra 64Meg when I bought mine and used it this past summer for a 15K walk-a-thon. Using WMAs at 96KBit, I loaded enough music to see me through the walk without any repeats. It is really ashamed that Intel decided to get out of the end-consumer products. If this is an example of what they could do the first time out, I'd really love to see what they could have done given time to improve upon it.
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Summary: One year follow-up review
Review: This is my second MP3 player. Frankly, I don't see why anyone need more than one, but I only got it because my first one which is a Samsung [wasn't any good]... For one thing it was using up my batteries while the darn thing was off! I am sure they made alot of fixes, but definitely read the reviews before you buy a Samsung MP3 player. As for my Intel player, it's the best. Very reliable. Haven't had any problems with it. Very easy to use. Comes with nice software. Sound is great, but I think the sound on the Samsung was better. There are some minor things which are matters of personal taste. The back of the player is soft and rubbery like one of those soft-grip pens. I hate that feeling. Personally, I like the hard, cold metallic feel of your everyday electronics. You have to press the buttons really hard for it to work. This is done on purpose so you won't accidentally hit the buttons when you put it in your pocket, although there is a button-lock. Also, the display is not lighted and does not show the title of the song. But the thing I found most annoying about this player is that it's damn ugly. Very ugly to be exact. I can't bare to look at it. It claims you can customize the face. I tried, but worst...just when you think it can't get any uglier, by putting in one of their selection of faces or your own creation, you actually made it the ugliest MP3 player known to mankind. I'm not even kidding. I am a professional artist and there is nothing I can do to make it look better. I just left the face blank. The only reason why I am still using it is because it is very reliable and it's not a battery hog. And lastly, the headphones [are terrible]. But from what I read in the reviews, all the MP3 players come with inferior headphones. You start wondering whether they worked out some deal with the headphone manufacturers to increase profit for everyone? With the headphones this player gives you, not only is the sound bad, but the plugs are so big that you start to experience pain after a few minutes of listening. Could you imagine that? You are enjoying easy-listening music and your ears start hurting? Ironic. But my grandmaster once said, "Don't worry about the pain, it will go away" So you can heed his advice or just use better headphones.
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Summary: Excellent sound, durable and small
Review: You would think enough has been written about this player, and maybe someone else has pointed out the same flaw, but I didn't see it after looking for awhile. So in case there are any other technophiles out there who have multiple MMC-expandable mp3 players (or who are considering purchasing this as a 2nd player), and/or who want to be able to share a pre-recorded MMC (favorite mix, etc.) with a friend with a non-Intel MMC mp3 player, BEWARE! This player uses what I would call a proprietary format for encoding the data on the expansion MMC's. The drawbacks of this fact are: 1. Can't use a "generic" MMC reader/writer to record and/or share your music - must use the PAP 3000 player to record.
2. The other MMC mp3 player I own is the Evolution "wireless" IM-600B (which I love). It uses the standard format for MMC encoding, which is readable by Windows (Explorer), etc. I can be listening to this player while at the same time I'm recording music on another MMC. Can't do this with PAP 3000.
3. I can't share MMC's between my 2 players, without having to re-record them (even with the exact same music)! Again, this is due to the incompatible format the PAP 3000 uses to encode MMC's.
4. Since you can't use a "generic" MMC reader/writer, if you're short on free USB ports, you'll find this drawback a pain, as you HAVE to use Intel's included USB cable in order to record to this device. (i.e. might mean a lot of cable swapping - especially rough without the convenient front side USB ports...) Hope this helps shed a little more light. I still like the player overall a lot, as evidenced by the "4" rating. I especially like the fact I got mine for seventy-nine dollars at a Best Buy on a closeout sale last spring! (yeah-baby!) Think they closed them out when Intel announced... A plus that I didn't see explicitly mentioned is the fact it works fine with 1.2V rechargable NiMH AA batteries! I agree with others that the volume can be deficient at times, e.g. when mowing the lawn, etc!
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