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Summary: Needs more work
Review: I bought this product because I'm a jogger and am training for the NYC Marathon. I do many long runs and this product is useless for joggers. It skips and if you listen to mp3 files there is a long delay between songs. I had to return this product with no problems given to me from Amazon. I buy all the time from amazon.com and am disappointed they are selling this product. I will still continue to buy from amazon.
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Summary: At the beginning (December 2000) was the best, but now...
Review: This was a fine product until december of 2000. But the competence is harder like Rio Volt and TDK (The BEST!!!!). I sold it after 3 months because I upgraded my CD MP3 Player to the TDK Mojo and I can tell you that is the BEST than ever exists in the whole world !!!!. If you want to save $80 dollars you will regret yourself to haven't bought the TDK Mojo. Anyway the product is regular quality, but there are better choices...
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Summary: Great price, useful accessories
Review: I hate walkmans! They are useless, annoying and use a lot of batteries. So why give this MP3 player a 5-star rating? Because the Philips Expanium is the cheapest way to listen to your MP3s away from your computer.
It doesn't come with inbuilt memory (which only allows you to listen up to one hour of music) but accepts CD-ROMs with MP3 files, which permits up to more than 10 hours of listening pleasure.
The only reason I bought it were the accessories, especially the car kit is very useful. Instead of buying a CD-changer for your car, just get this MP3 player. You won't only save money, but also space (10 CDs fit on 1 CD-ROM).
Some people criticized that you can't fast-forward into songs, but while driving, that would just take my attention of the street, so that didn't really bother me.
By the way you can also listen to regular audio CDs.
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Summary: overrated
Review: I bought the Philips EXP103 Expanium Portable MP3-CDPlayer not less than a year ago. I use it very often for my rides to school and whenever I'm going out. The mp3s burned onto a CDR when played on the CDPlayer takes a long time to examine the CD and finally playing it. Sometimes, it wouldnt even play a fine mp3 CDR.
Anti-skip?. What a joke. I havent dropped it many times and yet it skips like a maniac. Just moving it slightly and trigger a skip in a regular audio CD and a mp3 CDR.
This thing sucks lots of batteries. The mp3 component made it so cheap. I had to buy batteries everyweek just for playing a regular CD.
Definitely an over rated product.
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Summary: FANTASTIC!!!
Review: ...I got this for my husband - a big music lover and also a lover of stereos - so he knows a good player when he sees it! And he is in love with this mp3/cd player! We would both recommend this to anyone!! And we had NO PROBLEM using our previously burnt mp3 cds!! So don't let those other reviews scare you away from a great product!
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Summary: Philips EXP103 Great MP3 Player Great Price
Review: In order to make this unit play MP3 you must have a great MP3 utility. I use Easy Creator 4.0 and do not max out the CDR. I use it in my car and have not had any problems. I also use the player at my work and plug in my Harman/Kardon speakers that came with the Dell Computer at my work. It takes a while to get to a specific track, and it does not display the artist. But for the price, I highly recommend this unit! The unit from Amazon comes with a car kit and a set of earphone speakers. The car kit is great and works well in my Alero. I don't use the earphone, they hurt my ears! Anyway if you burn your MP3 correctly this unit works well!
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Summary: Philips EXP103 Expanium Portable MP3-CD Player
Review: Great Buy! Everything is awesome except anti-skip protection. Plays mp3's with no glitch, no need to finalize your cds to listen to them on this thing. It says that it can read cd-rw's too, but I haven't tried it yet. Adapter and car kit are 100% satisfaction.P.S. This cd player is a bit heavy so for those who like to jog/run/bicycling I would recommend to think before you buy. Besides anti-skip feature is not working to well.
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Summary: Good.
Review: I absolutely could not get this thing to skip, I did everything short of breaking it...I dropped it, crushed it, tossed it, shook it, and...it still, wouldn't skip while playing an mp3 cd.
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Summary: Excellent Price, Poor quality
Review: This was like a dream for me, to find an mp3 player with car kit with a reputed brand name and I jumped at it. It has been two weeks and I have already exchanged the product once....Can you believe that both my old one and this new one I have, both have their volume controls non-functional....i.e the song plays at a fixed level whether the volume is in level 0 or 8 !!! I did not expect such cheap quality from Philips ! Maybe its just my luck, but I would warn buyers to double check everything within the first few weeks if they want to return this product.
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Summary: Good enough for me
Review: Occasionally I listen to MP3 songs on my Expanium. However most of the time I use it to listen to MP3 lectures on the way to and from university (for revision purposes). I received my Expanium three months ago, and so far I'm pretty satisfied. Like many things ofcourse, there are pros and cons. I like Expanium because: (1) The sound quality is very good. You really need to listen to it to know what I mean. (2) Anti-skip works fine. My home is one hour drive away from university, with quite a few uphills/downhills/bumps/sharp turns on the way, and yet never once did the player skip. I dislike Expanium because: (1) The display has no light and is difficult to read in darkness. (2) Expanium CANNOT fastforward or rewind WITHIN a song or lecture. Most songs are no longer than 6minutes, and so this is not too much of a problem. But my lectures are 1-hours in duration (ie. each CDR contains roughly 12 individual lectures). At times I wished I could rewind a few minutes just to catch a particular equation, enzyme name, or relisten to a difficult concept. This is not possible on Expanium. (3) Way too expensive for poor guys like me. Overall, Expanium serves my revision purpose quite well, and I am happy with it.
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