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spottoI shall now give reviews of the mp3 players I have and hopefully be able to provide a picture. These reviews are not professional, xP. I'm not going to go over stuff like podcasts 'cause I don't listen to those, just basic things and price.
I'll try to be unbiased.
We shall start with my very first mp3 player.
I got this after my friend bought one, 256mb, way back in ninth grade. That would be 2004-2005, wouldn't it? So at that time mp3 players were still pretty sucky, but some mp3 companies will soon grow huge. (Such as iPod) Before I saw her with one all I wanted was a Sony Walkman since they looked cool on the waist, but it seemed that those old small little players will be outdated soon. Sometimes I listened to it with her, but mostly I didn't 'cause I didn't like her songs, so when it was the gorgeous month of December where Christmas and my birthday resided. I decided to get one, erm, ask one of my family members to buy one for me. =P
I went to a place called Radioshack. (It was replaced by The Source by Circuit City or something like that by now. ) And on one of those funny spinny case thingies sat lots of mp3 players. The largest was probably about 1GB. I was deciding between an RCA player (I have forgotten the brand) that was 256mb, and something called Nexxtech, which was 1GB. Anyway, the RCA player could be expanded to have more memory, and the Nexxtech one could not. Even the clerk recommended the RCA one to me, but I thought that my mom would not want to buy lots of memory expansions all the time, so I went with Nexxtech. At this time I thought I'd have this mp3 player forever, not go through five like I happened to do.
So I estimated pretty poorly and the music I had at the time didn't really fill up the Nexxtech player much. Plus, the Nexxtech player had some eyecandy. It flashed four rainbow lights all the time, which must've put a toll on the battery. (The thing used an AAA battery) The battery-power died a lot, and I found myself bringing extra batteries with me whenever I listened to it. Buying extra batteries was the same hassle as expanding memory, so avoiding buying extra things for my mp3 player backfired. I tried to use other headphones for it, but I found out to my annoyance that its headphone jack was rather small, as if only designed for Nexxtech headphones, so I could only use the default one given. This was annoying because eventually one side of the phones died, and I could not get a replacement. After this, the mp3 player was pretty much unusable even if it wasn't broken.
Of course my parents are very picky about buying me stuff, so asking for another one was out of the question:
I looked all over the internet and cannot find a picture of this thing.
The jack and my Creative Zen V Plus headphones, which are normal sized. The Nexxtech jack is too small for it to fit.
Rainbow lights flashing...what is the point of that other than to drain battery power? Look, it's my FIXED Zen V Plus in the background! =DDDD (Yeah my photos suck, XD)
Pros:
1GB Storage (good enough for me at the time)
FM Radio
Microphone
$99, cheap at the time
When you shut it off, it shows BYEBYE. Cool. =D
Cons:
Rainbow lights!?
Shitty battery life
External Batteries (AAA)
Strange navigation/interface
Can't use other headphones
I'm not going to comment on stuff like sound quality because my ears aren't really great, as in I can't tell the difference.
Nexxtech Digital Audio Player, 1GB
(December 2004 - December 2005)
The Second Mp3 Player
So if I couldn't ask my parents to buy me a new one...I bought myself a new one. This time I went to Future Shop. I think it was Boxing Day because there was lots of people and my dad got a good deal on a dryer. That means it's one year later, 2005/2006. (2005 for when I got it). I wasn't really thinking of getting a new one, but I when I saw this baby, an RCA Lyra T1500 (funny I get an RCA this time after not choosing it last time) 512mb. Now since my music didn't fill up my 1GB player very much, I didn't think too much on storage this time. I wanted this player since it was sexy. That's right. It was metallic and RED. Yummy. My last player was ugly white. (I actually wanted the black one, but only white was left. ): ) It cost like $49.95, which I guess is on par with my mp3 player before in terms of price.
So it didn't have radio, but I didn't mind because I didn't listen to radio much. (Though it would've been nice if I got tired of my music for a while, lol) I tried the microphone thing, but it never worked strangely. Nonetheless, I really liked this mp3 player. It was red, which is sexy, and it is still alive today, and never broke. (That means it's good) One thing I REALLY liked about it was the built in USB plug on it. I thought that was rather useful, rather than having to plug in a USB cord, I could just plug in the mp3 player itself! (I think it's called a thumbdrive)
This mp3 player is also very durable. (the reason it lasted so long) I still have it and it still works wonderfully. I gave it to my brother for a while when I got my third mp3 player, but then he got a Sony Walkman Mobile Phone and listened to that instead (plus it had radio). So now it's mine again.
I decided to get a new one by nagging my parents 'cause the space was too small.
The only picture I could find of it on the internet, and it's not even the right colour! Plus it's really small!
Plugged into my computer. Look how red it is, I love red mp3 players.
Still plugged. Look, it's Yuuna, Ako, and Kazumi all alone and rejected at the corner trapped inside a clock box with only half her body...erm.
Teh thumbdrive thingeh.
Pros:
$49.95! There goes my birthday money. (Good deal at the time)
It's red. Red is sexy.
Durable.
It's metallicy! Metallicy is sexy. (last mp3 player was marble-like)
Apparently has audiobooks?
Thumbdrive-like USB port
Microphone, apparently
Survived my brother's sluggish and clumsy treatment (:
Charges pretty fast
Battery life = not bad
Cons:
No radio?
This model's mic didn't work.
Only 512mb storage, D:
Why does it need a screensaver? >>;
It makes sounds during the song. (Didn't do this before my brother used it. Huh.)
RCA Lyra T1500
(December 2005 - )
The time is July of 2007.
Once again Spotto ventures into Future Shop, looking for an mp3 player of larger storage.
This time, Spotto researched on the internet for a good mp3 player.
Spotto is looking for a Sandisk Sansa c250.
She finds it! Decent price, alright! (like 75 bucks)
Spotto buys.
Spotto goes home.
Spotto looks at box/annoying plastic package which is hard to open.
Spotto notices something...
THIS IS SANDISK SANSA c150! ONE-FIFTY!
But...can't be TOO different from the c250, right? Just a little downgrade, right?
So when I first opened it, I liked it, actually. I turned it on and really like the colour interface, rather different than the one-colour screens of my previous mp3 players. I liked the album pictures too, but I have like no use for that, lol. The radio was pretty good as well. So yeah, at first glance, it was actually pretty good. I liked how it felt, but the back felt cheap. Then I noticed it used AAA BATTERIES.
OMFG THE HORROR OF MY FIRST MP3 PLAYER HAS COME BACK TO HAUNT ME.
Actually, no, it lasted longer than five hours of the last one. About 15 hours actually...
So I decided to plug it into my computer for some transferrin', yo. I never had problems with transferring music before. My first mp3 player transferred music with the headphone jack...(maybe that's why it was so damned small), and my sexy red one had the USB port built in, so I loved it. But this one...was different. It had this oddly shaped plug for the mp3 player...something I learned would be called a "Proprietary" way of transferring. Yeah, my experience with it wasn't great. First, I had to use the software that came with it to transfer, and when I did, it took AGES to transfer, and even then it'd just suddenly stop, as if it was unplugged, but it wasn't! This mp3 player was PISSING ME OFF YO.
So that, and the fact that I'd have to buy AAA batteries (or get rechargeable ones) for power, ultimately brought my decision to return it. It lasted one day. I also went on the internet and noticed a huge amount of complaints on this mp3 player. It was a 1GB player, too.
For the next few months I was going, "SANDISK SUCKS" because of this experience. Of course I soon learned it was this model that was faulty in the Sandisk line of mp3 players. (Their mp3 players are actually pretty good! My friend has a Sandisk View or e250, or something like that) Which is why you should not base your hate on an mp3 player company if only one model was shitty. Try others, they make mistakes too.
DO NOT MISTAKE THESE TWO MP3 PLAYERS LIKE I STUPIDLY DID:
^the c150, which sucks.
^the c250, which is better. (But also not that great. It fit MY needs though, as reviews said, but probably not for the average user.)
^The evil "Proprietary" Cable.
Pros:
Pretty interface
Photos (I hear they look sucky on it though)
Radio
Microphone
1GB for $75 was pretty good
Cons:
Evil "Proprietary" cable
Shitty battery life for the fact that I have to use AAA batteries
Did I mention AAA batteries?
Slow music transfers, sometimes it even doesn't SEND.
^The above killed it for me
I think you can only use the software it provides
Sandisk Sansa c150
(July 2007 - July 2007) [returned to the pound]
So, it's time to go back and get a new one!
Spotto returns and returns her mp3 player and gets her money back! She runs back to the mp3 section and finds that there are no more c250s (D:) so she continues looking. Suddenly, Spotto DISCOVERS another mp3 player section for the better mp3 players. (I never saw the section before, honest, >>;) Which instead of mp3 players stuck in plastic packages hanging from a hook, were in boxes inside a glass case thing! Above we could even TEST the mp3 players! It had like the better Sandisk stuff (with video), Samsung, Sony, other companies as well. (Ipod had its own section, >>;) And...
...CREATIVE.
When I saw that cute little Zen thing...I was in love.
It was so CUTE. I wanted the orange one, but it was only 1GB. The green one was 2GB. I also wanted the red-black one and the blue-black one, but they were like 4 and 8GB, which were like over our budget, D:
And I didn't see a black-green one, so...I got the white-green one. SO MANY AWESOME COLOURS. It was like $99 bucks for a 2GB, which is much better than how much my first and second mp3 players cost! SO I GOT IT AND WAS IN LOVE AND STUFF.
It was small and toy-like and ever so cute. I could put a wallpaper, so I stuck Sayo in because Sayo is cute and cute works with cute, y'know. There was even video capability, although the screen is too tiny to see subs or anything, I could still watch short things. (I didn't even need video, anyway) It had radio and also a microphone. (I don't think the microphone worked, again. Why do these things happen to me? O:) And it did NOT use an evil "Proprietary" cable! Part if it even has the ability to become a REMOVABLE DISK DRIVE! ZOMG. So I was loving it lots and my friend has a Zen Micro while my other friend had a Zen Vision:M, but I just loved my Zen over their's! (I don't need like 180GB of storage....or whatever Micro does, O_o)
...and then it broke.
Aoi-dono said "I told you so" to me...or something along those lines.
Suddenly. Unexpectedly. It froze on Seinaru Sora no Shita De....
(Stupid KonoSetsu, >>;)
I thought to just reset it, and turn it on again, but no dice. Everything I did seemed to do NOTHING. Just bringing it back up to the frozen KonoSetsu. I is angry. I is also sad, when that happened. I came upon a forum post (while looking for support) that described my EXACT problem and it said it was some sort of hardware problem, and I probably had to return it. NOOOOOOOO!!!!!
I wanted it fixed, not replaced though. I didn't want to load my music back in again, and I loved this particular mp3 player. The store told me to return it by mail, and so that day I bought a ZEN (just ZEN) instead 'cause it had 4GB, and had video. (Zen V Plus introduced me to video, so I craved for more even if I didn't need it, XD)
And well, today I fixed it because I was not clicking the right buttons to bring it to recovery mode. (I thought you just had to turn it on and then hold play, not HOLD the on button and hold play at the same time, O:)
So I scored yet another mp3 player for no reason. XDDD
^Look how sexy the black-orange one was, but I got the cute white-green one.
The black-red one would've been the best though. I love red mp3 players.
There's even a pink one for people who are obsessed with pink!
Even has a bunch of add-ons, too!
Pros:
Lots of colours, like above.
It's EXTREMELY cute.
$99 for 2GB? S'woot.
Wallpaper. Sayo. Win.
Video capability!
Photo capability!
Radio
Microphone
OMFG also a removable disk drive!?
Pretty decent battery life, too!
Cons:
The colours are specific for the amount of space. D: (Red is 8GB and orange is 1GB, D<)
Pretty small screen for video.
You can't see nothing on the screen in direct sunlight. >>;
KonoSetsu is its weakness.
I guess if it froze before it'll freeze again. O:
I dunno if it's durable, I don't think I ever dropped it. XD (unlike the ZEN...>>;)
Creative Zen V Plus
(July 2007 - )
Ahh yes...now we are on to the current king of mp3 players...(to me)
Let's just get right to it. It's called simply the Creative ZEN.
I bought the refurbished version, and its still good today. (Although died on me for a week after I dropped it, >>;) The refurbished went for around $130 (retail is $150) for FOUR GIGABYTES! (Yet another upgrade!) It has video capabilities, and apparently it's like 16.7 MILLION colours, so the video is all pretty and stuff. (Yes, I can see the PRECISE scary bird-ness of Live Action Kazumi BEAUTIFULLY on it!) It even has an SD card slot! (People don't like how it doesn't integrate into the library, but I don't really care. Unless I take up all 4GB in it and want expansion, I think all I'd do with the SD card is put videos on it, :P) The size isn't bad either, so I'm lovin' it. (ew McDonald's catchphrase)
Size of a credit card, has radio, and mic (which actually works, XD) lots more functions than my other players (which again I don't really need, but who cares. An mp3 player freebie, XD)
The bad? Well, it doesn't double as a flash drive like the V Plus, definitely not cute (well I dunno how a screen fit for a video is going to look cute, XD) but also not as sexy as a red player. (It only comes in one colour...>>;) Yes, no SD integration, but I don't care. Also not as durable as I'd want it to be. Ah well.
Only one photo is needed. XP
Pros:
Video, OMG!
Photos, OMG!
Radio, OMG!
Microphone, OMG! (and it works!)
4GB, $130, OMG!
16.7 million colours, OMG!
SD Card thing, OMG!
Size of credit card, OMG!
Cons:
One colour? SHIT!
SD Card screwy? SHIT!
Not as durable as you'd hope? SHIT!
I don't like how when you turn it off it actually just goes onto standby, and then after a few hours it really shuts off. The sudden flash out of nowhere scares me. T__T
Takes to damn long to load up. XD
And yep, that's the mp3 players I have. I recommend Creative (Aoi-dono does not), but other good companies are Samsung, Sandisk, Sony (sometimes), iRiver, Cowon, etc. If you REALLY want an iPod, you're spending too much money for a fad, but if you like joining fads, go right ahead.
But not all the models in the company is going to be great, some might have been poorly made, but mostly they are good.
That is all from Spotto. *runs off to listen to pathetically small collection of music)
One more picture you ask? How about all the electronics I have in my room? XD
The television, a keyboard, a very limited computer-thingy, a hard drive, a router, a scanner, four mp3 players, a gameboy color, a computer video game control thingy, a radio, a DVD player, a microphone, a tablet, a tablet mouse, another mouse, and the camera that took the picture. XP
Oh, and have this cute picture of my hamsters. (they both decided to come out of the tube at the same time, XD)
Toodles~
I'll try to be unbiased.
We shall start with my very first mp3 player.
I got this after my friend bought one, 256mb, way back in ninth grade. That would be 2004-2005, wouldn't it? So at that time mp3 players were still pretty sucky, but some mp3 companies will soon grow huge. (Such as iPod) Before I saw her with one all I wanted was a Sony Walkman since they looked cool on the waist, but it seemed that those old small little players will be outdated soon. Sometimes I listened to it with her, but mostly I didn't 'cause I didn't like her songs, so when it was the gorgeous month of December where Christmas and my birthday resided. I decided to get one, erm, ask one of my family members to buy one for me. =P
I went to a place called Radioshack. (It was replaced by The Source by Circuit City or something like that by now. ) And on one of those funny spinny case thingies sat lots of mp3 players. The largest was probably about 1GB. I was deciding between an RCA player (I have forgotten the brand) that was 256mb, and something called Nexxtech, which was 1GB. Anyway, the RCA player could be expanded to have more memory, and the Nexxtech one could not. Even the clerk recommended the RCA one to me, but I thought that my mom would not want to buy lots of memory expansions all the time, so I went with Nexxtech. At this time I thought I'd have this mp3 player forever, not go through five like I happened to do.
So I estimated pretty poorly and the music I had at the time didn't really fill up the Nexxtech player much. Plus, the Nexxtech player had some eyecandy. It flashed four rainbow lights all the time, which must've put a toll on the battery. (The thing used an AAA battery) The battery-power died a lot, and I found myself bringing extra batteries with me whenever I listened to it. Buying extra batteries was the same hassle as expanding memory, so avoiding buying extra things for my mp3 player backfired. I tried to use other headphones for it, but I found out to my annoyance that its headphone jack was rather small, as if only designed for Nexxtech headphones, so I could only use the default one given. This was annoying because eventually one side of the phones died, and I could not get a replacement. After this, the mp3 player was pretty much unusable even if it wasn't broken.
Of course my parents are very picky about buying me stuff, so asking for another one was out of the question:
I looked all over the internet and cannot find a picture of this thing.
The jack and my Creative Zen V Plus headphones, which are normal sized. The Nexxtech jack is too small for it to fit.
Rainbow lights flashing...what is the point of that other than to drain battery power? Look, it's my FIXED Zen V Plus in the background! =DDDD (Yeah my photos suck, XD)
Pros:
1GB Storage (good enough for me at the time)
FM Radio
Microphone
$99, cheap at the time
When you shut it off, it shows BYEBYE. Cool. =D
Cons:
Rainbow lights!?
Shitty battery life
External Batteries (AAA)
Strange navigation/interface
Can't use other headphones
I'm not going to comment on stuff like sound quality because my ears aren't really great, as in I can't tell the difference.
Nexxtech Digital Audio Player, 1GB
(December 2004 - December 2005)
The Second Mp3 Player
So if I couldn't ask my parents to buy me a new one...I bought myself a new one. This time I went to Future Shop. I think it was Boxing Day because there was lots of people and my dad got a good deal on a dryer. That means it's one year later, 2005/2006. (2005 for when I got it). I wasn't really thinking of getting a new one, but I when I saw this baby, an RCA Lyra T1500 (funny I get an RCA this time after not choosing it last time) 512mb. Now since my music didn't fill up my 1GB player very much, I didn't think too much on storage this time. I wanted this player since it was sexy. That's right. It was metallic and RED. Yummy. My last player was ugly white. (I actually wanted the black one, but only white was left. ): ) It cost like $49.95, which I guess is on par with my mp3 player before in terms of price.
So it didn't have radio, but I didn't mind because I didn't listen to radio much. (Though it would've been nice if I got tired of my music for a while, lol) I tried the microphone thing, but it never worked strangely. Nonetheless, I really liked this mp3 player. It was red, which is sexy, and it is still alive today, and never broke. (That means it's good) One thing I REALLY liked about it was the built in USB plug on it. I thought that was rather useful, rather than having to plug in a USB cord, I could just plug in the mp3 player itself! (I think it's called a thumbdrive)
This mp3 player is also very durable. (the reason it lasted so long) I still have it and it still works wonderfully. I gave it to my brother for a while when I got my third mp3 player, but then he got a Sony Walkman Mobile Phone and listened to that instead (plus it had radio). So now it's mine again.
I decided to get a new one by nagging my parents 'cause the space was too small.
The only picture I could find of it on the internet, and it's not even the right colour! Plus it's really small!
Plugged into my computer. Look how red it is, I love red mp3 players.
Still plugged. Look, it's Yuuna, Ako, and Kazumi all alone and rejected at the corner trapped inside a clock box with only half her body...erm.
Teh thumbdrive thingeh.
Pros:
$49.95! There goes my birthday money. (Good deal at the time)
It's red. Red is sexy.
Durable.
It's metallicy! Metallicy is sexy. (last mp3 player was marble-like)
Apparently has audiobooks?
Thumbdrive-like USB port
Microphone, apparently
Survived my brother's sluggish and clumsy treatment (:
Charges pretty fast
Battery life = not bad
Cons:
No radio?
This model's mic didn't work.
Only 512mb storage, D:
Why does it need a screensaver? >>;
It makes sounds during the song. (Didn't do this before my brother used it. Huh.)
RCA Lyra T1500
(December 2005 - )
The time is July of 2007.
Once again Spotto ventures into Future Shop, looking for an mp3 player of larger storage.
This time, Spotto researched on the internet for a good mp3 player.
Spotto is looking for a Sandisk Sansa c250.
She finds it! Decent price, alright! (like 75 bucks)
Spotto buys.
Spotto goes home.
Spotto looks at box/annoying plastic package which is hard to open.
Spotto notices something...
THIS IS SANDISK SANSA c150! ONE-FIFTY!
But...can't be TOO different from the c250, right? Just a little downgrade, right?
So when I first opened it, I liked it, actually. I turned it on and really like the colour interface, rather different than the one-colour screens of my previous mp3 players. I liked the album pictures too, but I have like no use for that, lol. The radio was pretty good as well. So yeah, at first glance, it was actually pretty good. I liked how it felt, but the back felt cheap. Then I noticed it used AAA BATTERIES.
OMFG THE HORROR OF MY FIRST MP3 PLAYER HAS COME BACK TO HAUNT ME.
Actually, no, it lasted longer than five hours of the last one. About 15 hours actually...
So I decided to plug it into my computer for some transferrin', yo. I never had problems with transferring music before. My first mp3 player transferred music with the headphone jack...(maybe that's why it was so damned small), and my sexy red one had the USB port built in, so I loved it. But this one...was different. It had this oddly shaped plug for the mp3 player...something I learned would be called a "Proprietary" way of transferring. Yeah, my experience with it wasn't great. First, I had to use the software that came with it to transfer, and when I did, it took AGES to transfer, and even then it'd just suddenly stop, as if it was unplugged, but it wasn't! This mp3 player was PISSING ME OFF YO.
So that, and the fact that I'd have to buy AAA batteries (or get rechargeable ones) for power, ultimately brought my decision to return it. It lasted one day. I also went on the internet and noticed a huge amount of complaints on this mp3 player. It was a 1GB player, too.
For the next few months I was going, "SANDISK SUCKS" because of this experience. Of course I soon learned it was this model that was faulty in the Sandisk line of mp3 players. (Their mp3 players are actually pretty good! My friend has a Sandisk View or e250, or something like that) Which is why you should not base your hate on an mp3 player company if only one model was shitty. Try others, they make mistakes too.
DO NOT MISTAKE THESE TWO MP3 PLAYERS LIKE I STUPIDLY DID:
^the c150, which sucks.
^the c250, which is better. (But also not that great. It fit MY needs though, as reviews said, but probably not for the average user.)
^The evil "Proprietary" Cable.
Pros:
Pretty interface
Photos (I hear they look sucky on it though)
Radio
Microphone
1GB for $75 was pretty good
Cons:
Evil "Proprietary" cable
Shitty battery life for the fact that I have to use AAA batteries
Did I mention AAA batteries?
Slow music transfers, sometimes it even doesn't SEND.
^The above killed it for me
I think you can only use the software it provides
Sandisk Sansa c150
(July 2007 - July 2007) [returned to the pound]
So, it's time to go back and get a new one!
Spotto returns and returns her mp3 player and gets her money back! She runs back to the mp3 section and finds that there are no more c250s (D:) so she continues looking. Suddenly, Spotto DISCOVERS another mp3 player section for the better mp3 players. (I never saw the section before, honest, >>;) Which instead of mp3 players stuck in plastic packages hanging from a hook, were in boxes inside a glass case thing! Above we could even TEST the mp3 players! It had like the better Sandisk stuff (with video), Samsung, Sony, other companies as well. (Ipod had its own section, >>;) And...
...CREATIVE.
When I saw that cute little Zen thing...I was in love.
It was so CUTE. I wanted the orange one, but it was only 1GB. The green one was 2GB. I also wanted the red-black one and the blue-black one, but they were like 4 and 8GB, which were like over our budget, D:
And I didn't see a black-green one, so...I got the white-green one. SO MANY AWESOME COLOURS. It was like $99 bucks for a 2GB, which is much better than how much my first and second mp3 players cost! SO I GOT IT AND WAS IN LOVE AND STUFF.
It was small and toy-like and ever so cute. I could put a wallpaper, so I stuck Sayo in because Sayo is cute and cute works with cute, y'know. There was even video capability, although the screen is too tiny to see subs or anything, I could still watch short things. (I didn't even need video, anyway) It had radio and also a microphone. (I don't think the microphone worked, again. Why do these things happen to me? O:) And it did NOT use an evil "Proprietary" cable! Part if it even has the ability to become a REMOVABLE DISK DRIVE! ZOMG. So I was loving it lots and my friend has a Zen Micro while my other friend had a Zen Vision:M, but I just loved my Zen over their's! (I don't need like 180GB of storage....or whatever Micro does, O_o)
...and then it broke.
Aoi-dono said "I told you so" to me...or something along those lines.
Suddenly. Unexpectedly. It froze on Seinaru Sora no Shita De....
(Stupid KonoSetsu, >>;)
I thought to just reset it, and turn it on again, but no dice. Everything I did seemed to do NOTHING. Just bringing it back up to the frozen KonoSetsu. I is angry. I is also sad, when that happened. I came upon a forum post (while looking for support) that described my EXACT problem and it said it was some sort of hardware problem, and I probably had to return it. NOOOOOOOO!!!!!
I wanted it fixed, not replaced though. I didn't want to load my music back in again, and I loved this particular mp3 player. The store told me to return it by mail, and so that day I bought a ZEN (just ZEN) instead 'cause it had 4GB, and had video. (Zen V Plus introduced me to video, so I craved for more even if I didn't need it, XD)
And well, today I fixed it because I was not clicking the right buttons to bring it to recovery mode. (I thought you just had to turn it on and then hold play, not HOLD the on button and hold play at the same time, O:)
So I scored yet another mp3 player for no reason. XDDD
^Look how sexy the black-orange one was, but I got the cute white-green one.
The black-red one would've been the best though. I love red mp3 players.
There's even a pink one for people who are obsessed with pink!
Even has a bunch of add-ons, too!
Pros:
Lots of colours, like above.
It's EXTREMELY cute.
$99 for 2GB? S'woot.
Wallpaper. Sayo. Win.
Video capability!
Photo capability!
Radio
Microphone
OMFG also a removable disk drive!?
Pretty decent battery life, too!
Cons:
The colours are specific for the amount of space. D: (Red is 8GB and orange is 1GB, D<)
Pretty small screen for video.
You can't see nothing on the screen in direct sunlight. >>;
KonoSetsu is its weakness.
I guess if it froze before it'll freeze again. O:
I dunno if it's durable, I don't think I ever dropped it. XD (unlike the ZEN...>>;)
Creative Zen V Plus
(July 2007 - )
Ahh yes...now we are on to the current king of mp3 players...(to me)
Let's just get right to it. It's called simply the Creative ZEN.
I bought the refurbished version, and its still good today. (Although died on me for a week after I dropped it, >>;) The refurbished went for around $130 (retail is $150) for FOUR GIGABYTES! (Yet another upgrade!) It has video capabilities, and apparently it's like 16.7 MILLION colours, so the video is all pretty and stuff. (Yes, I can see the PRECISE scary bird-ness of Live Action Kazumi BEAUTIFULLY on it!) It even has an SD card slot! (People don't like how it doesn't integrate into the library, but I don't really care. Unless I take up all 4GB in it and want expansion, I think all I'd do with the SD card is put videos on it, :P) The size isn't bad either, so I'm lovin' it. (ew McDonald's catchphrase)
Size of a credit card, has radio, and mic (which actually works, XD) lots more functions than my other players (which again I don't really need, but who cares. An mp3 player freebie, XD)
The bad? Well, it doesn't double as a flash drive like the V Plus, definitely not cute (well I dunno how a screen fit for a video is going to look cute, XD) but also not as sexy as a red player. (It only comes in one colour...>>;) Yes, no SD integration, but I don't care. Also not as durable as I'd want it to be. Ah well.
Only one photo is needed. XP
Pros:
Video, OMG!
Photos, OMG!
Radio, OMG!
Microphone, OMG! (and it works!)
4GB, $130, OMG!
16.7 million colours, OMG!
SD Card thing, OMG!
Size of credit card, OMG!
Cons:
One colour? SHIT!
SD Card screwy? SHIT!
Not as durable as you'd hope? SHIT!
I don't like how when you turn it off it actually just goes onto standby, and then after a few hours it really shuts off. The sudden flash out of nowhere scares me. T__T
Takes to damn long to load up. XD
And yep, that's the mp3 players I have. I recommend Creative (Aoi-dono does not), but other good companies are Samsung, Sandisk, Sony (sometimes), iRiver, Cowon, etc. If you REALLY want an iPod, you're spending too much money for a fad, but if you like joining fads, go right ahead.
But not all the models in the company is going to be great, some might have been poorly made, but mostly they are good.
That is all from Spotto. *runs off to listen to pathetically small collection of music)
One more picture you ask? How about all the electronics I have in my room? XD
The television, a keyboard, a very limited computer-thingy, a hard drive, a router, a scanner, four mp3 players, a gameboy color, a computer video game control thingy, a radio, a DVD player, a microphone, a tablet, a tablet mouse, another mouse, and the camera that took the picture. XP
Oh, and have this cute picture of my hamsters. (they both decided to come out of the tube at the same time, XD)
Toodles~
