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Creative Labs Muvo NX 256 MB MP3 Player

Creative Labs Muvo NX 256 MB MP3 Player

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Amazing....... a must have item if you want portable music
Review: Im listening to my MuVo as a write this review. It is one of the most amazing portable pieces of electronics that I have ever experienced. The ease of use & incredible amout of features are first class. This item was rated Editors choice in laptop magazine. Do yourself a favor & spurge on a really good pair of earbuds to really appreciate the sound quality. Sony MDR-EX70LP are the best buds that I have ever heard. The size is really nice for jogging, riding or any outdoor activity. The included armbad & innovative belt holder come in handy.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great GadGet
Review: I've buyed a muvo nx by amazon and it was love at first site!
I've buyed in amazon because here in Europe (Portugal) we don't have the muvo NX with 256 Mb , only with 128Mb!
If you want to put a SoundTrack in your life , buy this thing!
It's Small, easy to use, just buy a new earphones unless you are an ELF!
5 stars BABY!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I use it for hardcore snowboarding
Review: It holds all the songs I need for a day of snowboarding, never skips, the battery lasts for two full days of riding. Sound quality is excellent. The player works even in the cold at 20 degrees, no problem. Flash memory -no moving parts means it does not skip even off of big jumps or in the bumps. You can wear it as a pendant. The thing is practically perfect. Ditto the other reviewers on the headphones -they suck, but I took one look at them and knew they would not work for vigorous activity and replaced them.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Cool little gadget
Review: Cool little gadget - especially compared to all the other MP3 players I've bought over the years. Design is sleek - small, lightweight, well-built, easy to operate. Sound is good and software is user-friendly. Memory is enough to hold 5 CD's - perfect for waiting around at the airports and working out.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Almost perfect
Review: I got one of these little gadgets for Christmas so that my runs are tolerable. Internally, the toy is great. Having various play modes and 256Meg of memory means that I can make my own radio station without commercials or annoying dj chatter. It's small enough that it doesn't throw off my run.

Now for the bad items. First, there is nothing in the instructions that explains how to use the arm band. Perhaps it was an excess of egg nog, but it took me a while to figure it out. To save you from the same headache, put the belt clip's belt clip through the little loop on the arm band. Now put the gadget into the belt clip.

Second, the head phone ear buds are a piece of crap. They fell out of my ear within half a block. I don't know if my ears are strangely shaped or what, but they are unusable for me. The solution is to buy a set of sport ear buds that clip onto your ears. Relatively cheap at $10, but still...

Two minor problems, and this thing now gets four stars.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Sound is GONE!!!
Review: After I received this product and tried to play with it, it is pretty cool. But my first impression is gone after one night of using it.
First, when I play the MP3 songs, the sound is gone. I have to adjust the the volume and the sound will come back. But in the next song, it happens again. When I downloaded the songs back to my computer and played, everything was fine.
Second, sound quality is poor. I tried to adjust the features and everything but I cannot see the different. The right earphone was 3 times as long as left one.
You can read more review at Creative Labs Nomad MUVO NX 128 MB to compare with this 256 MB before buy it. Don't look only good side and buy but read the bad side and you will see more.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Perfect Workout Companion!
Review: Pros: Tiny player with great sound, features like shuffling and EQ, lightweight, easy to set up and copy music or files
Cons: Buttons may be too small for bigger fingers, one AAA battery life only about 5-6 hours, included ear buds are dinky

I already own a CD MP3 player, which is fine for most applications except when I'm at the gym. It's too big and it skips whenever you move. So I really wanted one of the new tiny players. My wonderful boyfriend got me this player for a birthday present.

It is super simple to set up; just install the Creative software, plug the player into an empty USB port, and you'll be copying files in no time! I can either drag and drop from my folders, or create a playlist in Windows Media Player and copy it automatically. It also holds any kind of file. I've used it to copy photos from my laptop to my home PC.

The sound is terrific. I like to turn up the volume fairly high, so that probably eats into the battery life. I was pleased to find out that I can randomly shuffle files, skip folders, or maneuver around my songs any way I like. I can also set the EQ to boost the sound even more.

I find the buttons easy to use, but someone with thicker fingers might not like it as much. Just rock the slider back and forth to move from song to song. The attractive and readable display shows you the time elapsed and any MP3 tags included in your file.

The included belt clip is very secure and slides into the included armband. I've only used the armband once, but I noticed a funny rubbery smell on my arm after working out. Could be because it's new!

I have not yet tried rechargeable batteries with the player, but a normal alkaline battery lasts about 5 or 6 hours. That's certainly long enough for any intense workout, or a 2 or 3-hour flight, but I don't want to have to keep changing batteries. Two colored battery "skins" are included, blue and gray. (You can also buy more skins via the Creative website for about $8-10 apiece.) You could either swap the player out to a different color and match your outfit, or keep a battery in each skin and use the alternate skin as a backup.

I also bought new sports-style headphones because I found the included earbuds to be totally useless.

Overall I love this little gadget! It's exactly what I needed in an attractive usable extra-light package. Thanks, sweetie!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: awesome
Review: pros: strong, stronger than my bros ipod

size, verrrrry nice size, i can sneak it into class rather than holding a cd player which is huge or like a bulky Harddrive mp3 player

cons: i lost it once, ear buds are kinda annoying comfort wise, too strong i dropped it on cement, only one scrathch works fine

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: You will love it.
Review: I am really happy with my purchase. I cant believe how small this baby is. It is about the size of a lighter. Sound is good. I got a 'bunk' pair of headphones though, and cant imagine how these passed quality control. Called the company and they are shipping out a new one to me. No problems or questions asked, service was good. I wish that the unit came with a battery charger, I thought it did, and I am kinda bummed that I need to buy one now. If it had an fm tuner that would be nice too. I really like it though, and I think you will too.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: compare/contrast between MP3s: Flash memory/Hard drives
Review: Okay. Here is a write up, that I did, on the comparisons/contrasts on MP3 players. Mainly, the Harddrive versions (I.E. Rio Riot/Apple IPOD -both of which I own) and the flash memory type... (I.E. Memorex 3642 Mp3 Player, of which I own as well).
What prompted this little jaunt (of which you may send to as many people as you like) My (expensive) Apple IPOD died during a sync last month. Just me copying files over to it, and the battery ran out of juice. I would have not attempted to copy music had I known the battery was low, but the battery read FULL STRENGTH. Anyhoo, I called Apple, they said return it for maintenance.
I did. Sent it back.
They returned it, still broke.

To my suprise, there is only a TEN DAY return policy.

TEN DAYS.

I did not realize this at all... and will not ever buy another apple product.

So, after a month or so of messing around trying to find another MP3 player... I decided to go with a flash memory MP3 player, the ones that use memory sticks.

SO, here are the pro and cons of these devices.

Pro's for the Memory Stick Mp3 players

-Cheaper. WAY CHEAPER than Hard drive types.

-If you go into music match and file convert to MP3 Pro and shrink the size of your MP3 to like, say 3o percent... you can really make a good Kompression. Example. My Memorex MP3 player has 32mbs of memory on board. It is expandable to 256mb. 32 mb will basically let you put one cd's worth of music. It is easy to put music on and off of them, due to your computer reading the USB as just another hard drive, so you drag and drop to put on, delete them to take them off. But, after you shrink your files to MP3 Pro 30 percent, you can put twice as many. So, basically a 256mb chip will allow me to put 208 songs on my little less than palm size MP3 player. And it wieghs like 3 ounces.

- More on memory. These little chips are the size of the upper part of your thumb, at least my thumb anyway. They come in 128mb, 256mb, 512mb and even though there aren't any MP3 machines out there to handle them YET, you can even buy a 1.5gig thumb size chip thingy. Considering the size of the chips and the shrinking kompression I told you about earlier, I could shrink my whole KOLLEKTION down to 10 of those 1.5gig chips. At the current shrink rate I am at 5 DVD's, which are way bigger and more fragile than these little chips.

- Not as fragile as hard drive type. You can drop one of these chips and not scratch it. I wouldn't stomp on one with my foot, nor get one in water, but they are encased in plastic. Ruggedish.

- Batteries last for like two days. There isn't much going on here, no moving parts, no laser or hard drive to put power to. Most of these flash Memory types have a single AA battery. I use a rechargeable type, so we are talking very low cost here.
In comparison to the hard drive types, where you will get a solid 8 hours of playing, this really whupps up.

- Size. Small. Very small. Mine is three inches by three inches. A square. But, you can get smaller ones. And the memory chips that go in them are the same ones you use for your camera. And you can put files on them. If you want to put a word doc on your memory chip, you can. Your Mp3 won't recognize it, but it is nifty storage.

COMPARISON/CONTRAST

- Size does matter. In the case of hard drive Mp3 players... lets face it, you can, if you so chose to, put a library of congress on these monsters. They are the caddilacs of the hand held devices, and guzzle batteries like gasoline. But when it comes down to it, size is the only thing they have going for them. I don't mean to downplay the hard drive types, but don't drop them, don't shake them, and after shelling out $499 to Apple you might consider insurance. Apple doesn't care about you or your apple after 10 days of ownership.

- Price/Komparison. IPOD ran me $499 bucks. My memorex MP3 player ran me 45 dollars. The 128 memory chip runs you 50 bucks. Owch. There really isn't a comparison to the two. The memory stick Mp3 players just kick butt on this issue. So, that is my review in a nutshell


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