Great, Cheap MP3 Player
17 07 07 - 22:44
I'm really pleased with my MP3 player. I bought it for $14 and then bought a 2GB SD Card for $12 on sale. That's a $26 MP3 player with only 1 major weakness (more on that later).
The place I bought it from is now selling a newer version of it for the same price. Strapya World carries all kinds of cool toys, phone straps and little gadgets. Over the past few months I've purchased from them four times and it's never, ever, ever taken more than 4 days for the goods to go from Japan to Pittsburgh. Their service is so good, it makes me pissed off at all other import stores that take weeks with the same shipping charges. I once got a package from them in 2 days. At any rate, the MP3 player...
This MP3 player takes standard SD cards (although for some reason they go in upside down, despite what the pictures say), has very good playback quality - although the power is a little low, so it doesn't quite work with my fm transmitter in my car. It's tiny and rechargeable. The exact battery life is unknown for me as I've never managed to make it die.. I plug it in once in a while (once a week, I guess) and it's never stopped working. Strapya claims about 10 hours. Sounds about right. The headhphones it comes with should go right in the garbage, what do you expect for free headphones though? A somewhat odd 'feature' of this player is it will play the songs you add ONLY in the order you add them. It's nice because your newest songs always play first. It sucks because if you want to reorganize songs, you need to clear the whole card and then organize it on your pc, then drag the files back. Sucks. But the only real, major, problem is - no shuffling. 2GB is a LOT of mp3s to have to try and cycle through. A shuffle feature would have been very welcome.
So all, in all, you just can't beat it. My mp3 player has way more storage, costs significantly less and is SMALLER than your iPod shuffle - it's just that mine doesn't.
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