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Summary: Great player
Review: Before purchasing this MP3 player, I had a Creative Nomad II MG. I dropped it a few times and the display stopped working. When I got this player, my first impression was that it looked like it belonged in the Toys 'R Us catalog. I was used to the beautifully slim Nomad, and this seemed like it was twice as thick and not nearly as attractive. However, the rest of the player is great. I love the quality and the amount of memory included. Overall, this a great portable device and I definitely recommend it.
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Summary: Great player with only one noticeable flaw
Review: This player blows any others I have seen out of the water. It is incredibly easy to use. I had it out of the box and loaded with my favorite songs in aroung 15 minutes. With all of that said there is one noticeable flaw. While the overall sound is very good, during quiet parts and in-between songs you can hear a distinct hiss. It is similar to that of a tape but not nearly as bad. It is only a slight annoyance since you can't hear it except when the music levels are low. Overall I am very happy with the purchase and would still buy it if I had know about the hiss.
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Summary: Great sound and design
Review: I chose this after a lot of research and use it primarily to got jogging or walking. Very impressive design. Great sound from the headphones. Very comfortable. Usability is high --- all of the buttons make sense. I love it. I'm using it to play WMA files. (Which, oddly enough, some sites claim that it doesn't do. Trust me --- mine does.) It has everything I need and no goofy stuff.(voice recording, ships with all the memory I need, etc)I also love that the dock serves as a recharger with ordinary NiMH rechargables. Great, great thinking. (Or just use standard AAA)My only complaint is that it doesn't integrate with Windows Media Player. I really don't want to go to a different place to manage my playlists. (And usability of the playlists in MusicMatch is pretty low.)
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Summary: Mostly high praise
Review: I really like what I've got with the Pocket Concert. The sound is awesome, it is wonderfully small (you'll be tempted to slip it in your pocket and smuggle it to work, even if that's a no-no), and rugged: I've dropped it a time or two and had no ill effects. Good thing too -- as I consider the price pretty steep. I do have a couple of gripes. I am not comfortable wearing the headphones. They seem like a nice idea, but at least for me the phones themselves don't go over my ears with much comfort. Hard to explain -- the wrap arounds just catch my ears wrong. Maybe the head unit isn't in the optimum position. I'm a size 8 hat size and the headphones have to wrap around pretty low on my neck. Another problem I have is the fast forward and reverse features. If you want to jump from one song to the next, they're fine, but scanning through a track is slow and even painful as you hold down the button for what seems like an age. I listen to old time radio dramas on my player, which are 30 minutes per track, so fast scanning can take more than five minutes! I'm left with a nice red arrow imprint on my finger. In general I'm happy and I think you will be too, but I guess I expect pretty close to perfection after paying almost twice what some other units cost.
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Summary: Intel MP3 Player
Review: Intel hit the mark with this beauty. Excellent sound quality, ease of use and design. My only complaint is the memory is not upgradable or removable. However, 128M easily handles approx. 30 songs, more than enough for a 2 hour workout. Nice player intel!!!!
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Summary: Enjoying Intel's MP3 player
Review: I received this as a gift recently. The giver did much research, looking for the best features at the best price. It seems to have the most features you can get for under [amt.]. I've enjoyed my player, using it in the car by plugging it into the cassette deck, and also using it at the gym while clipped onto my cardio machine. I like that we can fit about 28 tunes into the memory and that I can pretty much do any function with one hand. I wish the tracks could be put in a new order after being loaded in the memory, though. Also, the headset that comes with the player did not suit me. Maybe I have a narrow head, but these headphones do not stay put. I am using another set of headphones instead. Wrapping the band of the headphones around the back of your head looks cool, but it fights gravity and ends up slipping. Overall though, I really like my player and plan to use it for many workouts to come.
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Summary: Excellent Product
Review: I bought the Pocket Concert after my Rio 800 mysteriously died on me. The Intel is a MUCH better product. Personally, I like the design of the Rio a little better, but the player was a piece of junk. I've been very happy with the Intel.
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Summary: Broke within the first week
Review: Despite the cumbersome software, thought it was great- until it broke after only one week. So far, Intel customer service has been helpful and because they have no more players in stock, are working on getting me a refund. I may even purchase a second player with the cash- can't find a comparable product on the market.
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Summary: Smartmedia User Who Decided to go with Intel's Audio Player
Review: I have a digital camera that uses smartmedia memory and had decided to try and buy a digital audio player that uses the same type of memory. I had just purchased a 128mb smartmedia card and wanted to use it between devices. Unfortunately, the audio players that looked decent (and used smartmedia) had mediocre to good reviews but nothing great. Adding to that was the vendors on many of these players had only a 3 month warranty. The one player that had consistently great reviews was Intel's Pocket Concert. For me, their 1 yr warranty and great customer reviews, won out over the memory type. It performs great and I have really enjoyed taking it jogging. Here are my pros and cons: Pros: plenty of memory for hours of music, small size, 1 yr warranty, overall performance Cons: unable to expand the memory, headphones aren't very comfortable (I'm using another pair I have), FM reception (you won't use this feature once you hear the static). The pros were definitely more important than any of the cons.
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Summary: Great -- if you're not running Windows XP
Review: I read the reviews that said if you love audio, buy the Intel. So I did. Well, if your computer is running Windows XP don't waste your time--Intel doesn't have drivers for it at this time, and Intel support said they wouldn't until after October 2001. So I got a Roxio 800 instead. While it's that true that the Intel is louder, the sound quality of the Intel isn't head-and-shoulders above the competition like I've read in other reviews. The Roxio has a voice recorder, the Intel has an FM tuner. I don't think I'd ever use either. The main difference I noticed is that the Roxio's fast-forward is better--the Intel ff's at 5-sec intervals, playing a bite of the song in between. Very irritating--the Rio behaves like any other ff. Roxio definitely has the better value, and worked out of the box with Windows XP.
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