Rating: 
Summary: How Difficult Can It Be??
Review: This was my first purchase of an MP3 player and I do admit that the ease of installing software and downloading music was nice. The 128K memory was favorable too. The biggest disappointment came when I wanted to listen to my downloaded music. The headphone jack connection was so unstable that the only way I could get a good connection was to keep everso carefully jiggling the jack until I could get dual sound and then sit perfectly still as to not lose the sought after connection. This totally defeated the purpose of being able to listen to tunes while exercising -- that was practically impossible. I took the player out for it's first jog and it quickly turned into a turtle paced walk as I was constantly re-adjusting the earphone jack desparately trying for a solid connection. I even attempted using higher quality headphones, without success, same poor connection. I figured this was just badluck and because I liked the other features, I'd give Intel a 2nd chance. Unfortunately the 2nd player had the same results.
How hard is it to design a headphone jack?
Since the basic concept of the player revolves around delivering music for one's listening pleasure I'm sorry to report that I'm not a 3rd chance kind of gal.
Rating: 
Summary: Outstanding
Review: Very good player--best in class if you ask me.Just make sure your headphone jack works. If it doesn't, send it back. Litmus test--jog. :+) 128 megs capacity for about 2 hours of quality music, plays .mp3 and .wma files and will play other formats in the future, good sound quality. Overall the best bet. Buy the accessory pack. IF YOU ARE THINKING OF BUYING A PLAYER WITH CHANGEABLE MEMORY CARDS, RETHINK. The cost ratio is way too high to actually keep dedicated music on those things (at least a buck a minute for music right now) and switchable cards are more of a pain than they are worth.
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