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Summary: Nice player, but...
Review: ...chews through batteries like nobodys' business. Other than that, a real winner.
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Summary: Great Player for Working Out...
Review: I've had this thing for a little over a month now. The good things are that it holds about 30-35 average length songs, has an external card slot which can use either MMC or SD media, uses a single AAA battery, backlit display (with a lot of information, some of the cheaper MP3 players out there don't even display the song title), small form factor, belt clip, arm band, "FM radio."Some things that could be improved on are the "FM radio." Just like everyone says, reception is still poor, even with firmware 1.60. The belt clip is cool, but it let the player fly off my sweat pants and hit the sidewalk while jogging (use the arm band). The ear phone cable could be at least 6-12 inches longer. The phones are decent, but another pair may be better. The Rio Music Manager could be improved. Doesn't display total playlist MB size. Overall, I'm very pleased with this player. Battery life is good for the battery size (have yet to replace the battery in a month of using it about 2 times a week for an hour). The player case is nice, I'm glad to see the hold feature added (might be useful to still allow you to adjust the volume even with hold on, but this might make other people mad).
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Summary: Pay proper precaution before buying
Review: Generally, I like the player's size and how well it works while out and about. But it's in no way perfect. Here's what I've learned, having very recently received my S35S player. 1. FM Radio. Everybody complains about it. There's some sort of tuning strength function on this device, as when I press play while the tuner is active, a different icon comes up and the signal seems to change. Hmmm... 2. Stopwatch. Hard to get to for being a "sports" device. 3. Battery strength indicator. A lot of people complain about this one too. For those people, note there is a battery type setting (Alkaline/NiMH). Also, with NiMH, also note there's different battery capacities. I've seen AAA range from 300 ma to over 800 ma, depending on who made them and what you paid. Battery properties, such as voltage fall off rates in your battery affect how long this player will run on one charge. 4. Time and date. Remove the battery and the "tuned" station is remembered. But...the time and date need to be reset. This MUST be fixed. As a side note, the player settings also revert to default after battery removal. Why don't they just save to onboard memory??? Time I can understand, but the general settings?? 5. Installation. I too had problems, which took 45 minutes to finally resolve. You MUST install the Rio Manager software, which I found disappointing. All I know is that before installing the software the machine didn't recognize it, and after a couple reboots it did. (As a USB storage device, Windows "should" have assigned it a drive letter automatically.) I use other player software, which may NOW work, but I just haven't tried yet. Do NOT use Real One player. It's just a conduit for being spammed with ads. I used to use it, but found at least Microsoft didn't spam me with ads using Media Player. 6. Menu. Sometimes setting menu changes don't appear to take effect. I have to go back in and double check the settings.
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Summary: Great little Mp3 player
Review: This is my first Mp3 player that I've owned, and works better than expected. The added FM tuner is nice also. The software loaded fine onto my computer and downloaded to the unit first time without a hitch. You'll probably want to go to rio's web site and update the product when you first get it. The only thing I didn't like were the headphones that came with it. Picked up a different set and everything fine.
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Summary: Awesome for Athletes
Review: I hunted for over a year for a light-weight, high quality MP3 player with plenty of storage to help me train for my next marathon. After reading the specs and many positive reviews I decided to give the Rio S35S a try. Having used it for 4 weeks now I can say that I got exactly what I wanted and expected. The device has phenomenal sound while playing MP3's. I admit that the radio is just okay, but I didn't buy the thing for a radio. I wanted to play my music only not the garbage ad filled radio junk. If you exercise and are looking for an MP3 Player I highly recommend this one.
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: What makes this player great?
-128 mb, upgradeable to 256mb
-won't skip
-upgradeable firmware
-equalizer with many presets
-rubber outside makes it water resistant
-radio, with presets
-bright LCD
-menu easily navigated
-lock feature (when you dont want the buttons to be pressed by accident)
-clock with stopwatch, date
-shuffle/repeat
-bookmark your favorite part of a song
-lightweight
-great battery life (with rechargable NiMH batteries)
-armband, belt clip, and headphones that actually stay on your ears
-settings are customizable The list goes on. I highly recommend it, especially for walking to class or going to workout/run.
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Summary: awesome portable audio system
Review: This unit fits the bill nicely for me as a companion on my frequent cycling jaunts. The unit was relatively simple to get up and running. Uploading songs from my computer via Kazaa was a snap annd accomplished quickly. That would be the preferred way to program music as uploading from audio CD's is time consuming. The sound is reasonably clear although the FM reception isn't the greatest. The size of the unit and the accessories allow it to be hooked up onto your person in a variety of comfortable locations. Nice birthday present for a person that's hard to shop for. Thanks sis & brother in law.
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Summary: Better than ever thought!
Review: I was considering buying a Nomad IIc 128 MP3 Player but, then I saw this I thought it looked so awesome. So I looked at all the features and I decided I'd rather use this because it's made for sports and is so light. I read reviews and some people said it wasn't to good because trouble loading. Don't listen it is very simple and easy. Sure, you have to know a little about computers to do it. If you don't know anything about them it may cause a little problem with everything but, it is the best. The only thing is if the battery isn't over half full the tuner won't work and it will shut down don't worry if it happens. It did it to me in school and I thought it was broke, it's not. Overall, this MP3 player is way greater than I thought and you want to buy this. I love it so much. I've had it about 5 days and has no problems it's the best. You should buy 1 too.
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Summary: A solid product at a good price.
Review: I was sitting here wondering whether I should rate this a four star product, because while it's an excellent product it isn't mind-blowing, or a five star product because of it's overall great value. In the end, the proximity of the mere quality of the product to five-star level and the great value swayed me to give it five. The installation software is easy to use, as is the music transfer program. The player itself is small and sleek, while the backlight is a fluorescent blue that makes me feel like this was a Christmas gift from Spock. The accessories are nice: a nifty little carry-clip, a rechargeable battery, nice headphones anda USB cable. The sound quality is pleasing, but not great, thus the four star rating for the quality. Still, the sound is more than satisfactory while overall the product was a great, great deal.
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Summary: Small and Convenient
Review: The Rio is small and lightweight and very easy to use when working out. The clip is secure and does not fall off like other headphone sets. The MP3 quality is good. The FM tuner quality is quite poor, even after upgrading the software. I give it a 4 simply because of the convenience/size...it gets the job done for the specific purpose of working out. If you are looking for more, consider a bigger/better model.
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