engadget.com — we spotted iRiver's diminutive S10 digital audio player it was riding the coat tails of Apple's 2G Shuffle, but now that reviews are starting to trickle in, it's gotta stand on its own to make a name for itself. The folks at CNET Asia were some of the first to get their hands on one, and as usual, they put the unit through its pac
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toomuchcoffeeOct 4, 2006
Gee, what a great review. They talked about everything except HOW IT SOUNDS.
ddrircOct 4, 2006
Thanks for proof reading your descri
mapkinaseOct 4, 2006
I have tried several low-end mp3 players for purposes of listening to Qur'an recitation and iRiver with 512M of memory is the only one that is capable of browsing and replaying of about 256M worse of 600 mp3 files in 114 directories. All the rest have problems either displaying all 114 directories on the top level, or other problems. Costs $79. Highly recommended.
r3zonanceOct 4, 2006
"Looks nice. Does it have DRM?"No Portable Media players HAVE DRM, but they may SUPPORT DRM, so you can listen to DRM'd music (if you have any).
r3zonanceOct 4, 2006
It's a bit of a crap review, they don't really go into any detail at all about the device. They pretty much regurgitated what they said before on their "preview" of it.
chrislewisOct 4, 2006
@r3You have hit the nail on the head. Customers are swayed by marketing and looks, not features.
r3zonanceOct 4, 2006
"You have hit the nail on the head. Customers are swayed by marketing and looks, not features."Sad fact (I am an iPod owner), but most of these other MP3 player features, I couldn't care less about.My iPod does what I need it to, nothing more, nothing less. And as a consequence, there is a lot less to go wrong with it.
geokenOct 4, 2006
Basically the "d-click" system is their name for using the entire surface of the player as the 4 directional buttons. Think of it like a basic navigation system using a 4 way directional pad (kind of like most cell phones), but instead of having a small "d-pad like" interface the entire face of the mp3 player serves as the interface. So the top edge of the front face is the up button, the right edge is the right button, etc. It's a great solution to the problem of maximizing screen size while minimizing overall player size. It basically allowed them to fill the entire face of the device with the screen and not use up any valuable real-estate on the UI controls.
chrislewisOct 5, 2006
I would say divx is basically what convinced me that the zen vision m is cooler :)