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Summary: Perfect running companion
Review: This is truly an amazing little gizmo. It stores approximately 6 CD's worth of music (by my estimation) with no-skip playback. Putting music onto it is as simple as plugging in a USB cable to your computer and into the device, then dragging and dropping the wanted songs or entire albumns into the machine. I used it this morning for a 70 minute run, and it worked perfectly. The unit is weatherproof, and seems fairly rugged. The attachable arm band works quite well.It comes with a lot of stuff including a remote (haven't quite figured out why I would want this, as it's not hard to reach over to my arm to adjust things), and a battery charger + nickel/Cd battery to use. Set-up was straightforward, though the actual printed instructions were not enough to understand the process. Everything you need is on the computer CD supplied with the player, but you have to run it and Adobe open the manual. Also, I run XP and it kept telling me that the drivers and other software had not been tested for XP. The literature with the player says XP, however, and my system didn't crash, so it seems ok. I have multiple CD's already stored in my computer in the "my music" folder, and placing them on the player was complicated per the instructions, but after some experimenting it was obvious you could just drag and drop the music into the player. It's a fairly steep price... but I think it's worth it; great little piece of hardware!
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Summary: Waste of MONEY - Get the SonicBlue Rio Sport 128 instead
Review: I bought this because the SonicBlue Rio Sport 128 was out of stock. No big deal. The Nike 128 is the same price so it should be similar, right? Wrong! The SonicBlue Rio Sport has FM tuner, Clock, Stopwatch and can be upgraded to 256mb, FOR THE SAME PRICE AS THE NIKE! It also has a belt clip. The Nike 128 is tiny (good) but the buttons are too small to be useful. The head phones are too flimsy which makes it uncomfortable to wear. Over all this player is a waste of money.. Get the SonicBlue Rio Sport 128 instead. The
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Summary: Excellent value
Review: I had the Nike PSA 120. I traded up for this model. Smaller, lighter and 128mb internal memory for the same cost. Expansion slot no longer needed. Probably the best workout MP3 available. Customizable equalizer for better sound. Add the Sony MDR-ED268LP fontopia ear bud headphones and you have the best sound and setup...
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Summary: Sporty & Light
Review: This is the MP3 player for runners or anyone else excercising who wants to listen to music while training. You could clip this player to your hat and you would barely realize it was there. You can get about 40 songs on the 128 MB storage, which should last you any length work out. This player is easy to use and works through your computer. I recommend it.
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Summary: junk, junk, junk
Review: Got it a year and a half ago and threw it in the garbage yesterday. Over the year and a half it froze often and required reformatting and re-downloading of songs - a real pain when you're at the gym and realize the thing ain't going to work, and will also require time at home messing with it to get it operating again. Then last week the thing just froze up and wouldn't even re-format and take new songs. Instead of calling customer support, I went a bought an I-Pod - then went running.
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Summary: Smash it with a hammer, you'll enjoy it more.
Review: Bought because of past positive experience with Philips. Apx. 10 hours later, including 1/2 hour with live tech assistance & I have 1, single song loaded. Now player shows "0 bytes/0 bytes (0 bytes available)" & I can't load another song. More live tech assistance couldn't figure it out. Supposed to have "escalated" to supervisor, no call yet.
Asked for a refund. Nope. Can have a replacement. It will be more satisfying to smash it into pieces and send it to Philips than spend another hour trying to get it or a replacement to work.
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Summary: the wrst thing iv evr spent mi money on! don't buy it!
Review: This is product is absolutely terrible. yeah, it looks great, but installing the software is impossible! when i first got it, there was something wrong with the battery they'd provided, so i wasted hours trying to find any decent customer support or help but i got nothing. The player wouldn't evn switch on. Then, i had to waste more money shipping the item back to get a replacement. When i first got it, i put the battery in and switched it on and it worked. Then when i tried to put it on again, it just refused to work. I tried to re-charge the battery but no use. You can't format it and it onli holdz 30 songzz. The headphones r reeli anoying coz u cnt evn turn ur head in them and there r way 2 many magnetz wich r useless. Im sik of trin 2 mke this product wrk so im gona scrap this junk and try 2 get a betr mp3 player.
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Summary: Horrible Software
Review: This product is not worth the hassles that come with it! I consider myself to be very computer savvy and I have to say that I have spent a total of 10 hours attempting to install the drivers for this product on my computer - to no avail. I've spent an hour of that time on the phone with a tech support rep from Nike Philips who really wanted to prove that he was quite the techie and could fix this over the phone. Finally when he wasn't able to fix it, he just blamed my computer. The fact is - the installation CD that came with the product was supposed to include the drivers that are required to run the hardware on your computer, but the drivers folder on the installation CD was empty. There were NO drivers on the CD to install. I attempted to go to the products website and install the drivers manually - again to no avail. The software that accompanies this product is crap. I just wanted a user friendly MP3 player that I could run with and I have had nothing but headaches from this product. [...]
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Summary: Don't buy! Cannot play music purchased from the internet!
Review: Beware, if you plan to use this player to play music legitimately downloaded from the internet through sites such as Buymusic.com do not buy it! The problem is that the player is not compatible with music that is protected through technologies such as Digital Rights Management (DRM). Before I bought the player I researched the site and found nothing stating this. This limitation is not even stated in the instruction manual! It wasn't until I received it and went through THREE technical support people that I found this out. The support for the product is horrible as the technical support reps know nothing about the product. So good luck if you have any other problems.
There are however, some good things to say about the player. The design is very ideal for athletes, and the music that it does play sounds great. The player may be a very affordable choice for someone wanting to transfer music from their own CDs. Another nice thing is that you don't have to use software to transfer music (although Musicmatch Jukebox came with on the CD). After you install the drivers, the player appears as an additional drive in My Computer and you can copy and paste the music.
Overall I would suggest NOT buying the player. The unprofessional support for the product is horrible and there if there is no intention by the manufacturer to make a firmware upgrade that allows the player to play protected wma files, then there is no proof that the player will be able to keep up with the industry's continuing efforts to protect music. I would highly recommend as an alternative the RIO Cali. For just a little more you can get an FM tuner and all the music I have purchased online plays fine on the player.
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Summary: I loved it at first...
Review: ...but it has some problems. I agree with the previous reviewer, the software is clunky and irritating at times. I had the same problem with files not playing; I eventually discovered that the files have to have an artist and album title assigned to them in order for them to play. Once I had that figured out, I was all set...until the remote broke. It had been one of my favorite features, and it just flat out stopped working after about 3 months of regular use. It cut out the signal to the headphones so that you would get that watery, distant kind of sound. After about a year, the headphones stopped working, too - no sound at all in the right ear. I had really liked them - they were very comfortable - so this was disappointing.
I still use the player itself on a regular basis, however, I must admit that I haven't changed the songs for a good 7 or 8 months because the software is just too much of a pain to deal with.
So I guess I have mixed feelings about this mp3 player...the player itself is great, I have no complaints...but the software and accessories leave a bit to be desired.
PS, I just switched from PC to Mac and I can't get the darned thing to work at all - I can't get the drivers installed. The troubleshooter on the website says to install the iTunes plugin...which does not exist on my installation CD. *sigh*
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