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Summary: Died after about 9 months daily use
Review: A great item but it quit playing back after about 9 months of use. You could get bits of the messages by holding the mode button down momentarily. The gold paint wears off carrying it in your pocket.
Rating:
Summary: Died after about 9 months daily use
Review: A great item but it quit playing back after about 9 months of use. You could get bits of the messages by holding the mode button down momentarily. The gold paint wears off carrying it in your pocket.
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Summary: Easy and Affordable
Review: After I bout this product I was very satisfyed. I use it in call when we take notes and I use it to remember the lottery numbers. I use it for EVERYTHING. It fits in my pockets easily and makes a crystal clear sound.
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Summary: just one problem
Review: All the reviews I read were correct - ease of operation, barely had to read the manual to get going. I was very happy with this gadget except for one problem - In my bag or briefcase, it constantly goes on accidently with any movement (looking through the bag for something, pushing the bag aside, etc.) I have wiped out previous messages this way, as well as taped entire conversations unintentionally. Makes the gadget much less convenient, since I have to be careful where I keep it.
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Summary: An indispensable tool
Review: Having read the previous comment on poor sound quality I must write in - I have found the sound quality on the v-90 more than adequate. I frequently use the v-90 for recording a class and every voice in the discussion is understandable. And my most common use for it, taking personal notes, I speak directly into the microphone and for that the sound quality is excellent. I find it hard to believe that someone could not understand what they were saying into a v-90.
Also, I must say that the voice operated recording is quite good, unlike many voice operated recorders the first part of a recording is not cut out due to a delay in starting to record. I keep my v-90 atttached to my pants on a carabiner and in my pocket - and with me at all times.
Please bear in mind that this is not a personal audio player, if you want that get a recordable mp3 player, for it's purpose - recording personal notes, reminders, lectures, meetings, thoughts, etc - it does marvelously.
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Summary: They don't all survive the wash!
Review: I didn't have the same luck as the reviewer whose recorder survived the washing machine (and dryer) - mine is dead.However, I did find the thing very handy while I had it. The sound quality is great, and it is small enough to carry in a pocket. The only complaint I would have is that since there were only a few buttons on it, some of the features were very non-intuitive (hold x button for two seconds then press y button until yadda-yadda appears, etc.) I didn't find it worth the storage space in my ever-shrinking memory to remember all the programming features, so they went unused. Overall, very good product.
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Summary: Great tool for life management!
Review: I had used one of those clunky tape voice recorders but never seemed to have it available when I needed it because it was too big to carry everywhere. Well, this one is a perfect size and weight. I attached mine to one of those little retractable ID badge thingies and usually clip it to my belt or shirt. And don't mind others asking what it is and then saying, "Why would you want to record yourself?" We know how valuable these things are! There are two reasons, however, that I didn't give it 5 stars: 1) As others have commented in these reviews, the record button is much too easy to activate. If the button were a bit more protected I wouldn't have been recording a half hour of pocket noise 3 or 4 times a day (this practice burns out batteries very quickly). That's why I started wearing it like an ID badge. Yes, it has a HOLD feature, which locks out the buttons, but it's awkward to have to switch it off every time you want to use it and then on again to lock it once more. 2) If you happen to begin speaking immediately as you push the record button, the first half second (more or less) of your voice gets truncated...kind of a bummer if you are recording somebody's phone number, email address, etc. As far as recording time is concerned, they might as well have done away with the 90 minute mode; it's obvious that you need those extra bits per voice unit. It sounds like a bad cell connection. I find that 30 minutes is ample time, and the sound quality is excellent. One more thing--you don't have to spend 2 or 3 hundred bucks on one of those voice recognition recorders to get it to work with your PC voice recognition software. I got a jack from Radio Shack that lets me plug in the headphone out on the recorder to the mike in on my laptop and it works decently, I say decently. You'll still have to do quite a bit of editing. If there is a lot of background noise, though, you'll get mike errors. All in all I would buy it again. It's a great value.
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Summary: V-90 digital voice recorder
Review: I have been very pleased with my little recorder. I use it at work to make notes when I am too busy to write in my lab-book and then copy them later. I have never filled it completely up and usually delete messages fairly quickly. It does work well for storing a message for an extended period of time. The batteries ran low (machine indicates this) after 4 months of constant usage. I was able to make the battery switch quick and did not lose what was stored on the machine. Two things I wish it had are 1) a pause button so you could stop in the middle of a long message. (You have to start at the beginning and fast forward through it) 2) a microphone jack so you could attach a seperate microphone for recording phone conversations. Other than that I have no complaints!
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Summary: Easy to use - good sound in 33 minute mode
Review: I just picked this up on a whim at a different store. They have a 90 day return policy. Without cracking the book I understood how to record,playback, change quality settings, set the clock etc. Very easy to understand the basic functions. Read the 25 page manual to get the advanced tips and features. I found the long play mode to be difficult to listen to. I could understand myself, especially if I spoke right into the microphone, but it was tedious listening. The 33 minute mode sounded just fine. I really like the voice activated recording. It turns off after 1 second of silence and reactivates instantly. It never cut off the beginning of a sentence - very nifty. This results in your 33 minutes capturing quite a bit of information since silent spots are 1 second max. Use the "Hold" button to avoid the problems some of the reviewers have mentioned about accidental recording. Their VCR's are probably blinking 12:00 right now. It's hard for me to understand how anyone could have that problem. Functionally it really only has 2 folders to store regular messages because the the third folder "S" is intended for scheduled messages. You can still use it like the other two folders, but it only holds 15 messages per day and is not quite as easy to navigate. It's a little small for my hand. A rectangular shape would probably fit me better, but it's really not an issue. I still may take it back if I find a unit with better quality long play sound - but this unit does what it's supposed to do. It's cool looking...a real conversation starter, and small enough to tuck in any pant or shirt pocket. You'll keep it with you, but you might forget it's there :-)
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Summary: I really like it but it keeps breaking!
Review: I like for form and features of this voice recorder but I have now had 2 of them break!
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