An imperfect yet gogeous little device

Great user interface, great functionality, awesome sound, crappy earphones, Yes! the crappy earphones ruin somewhat your first impression...too bad

This is one of the neatest little hi tech gizmos I have seen lately. You can't take your hands off of this thing. It is neat, it is sleek, works great, menus are intuitive, great functionality, excellent display...

On the down side, it is very difficult to format videos to play on this thing, actually impossible without the third party conversion software available from iRiver's web site. And even this, is not very good software. It works with some video formats but not with others, it is basic and primitive. The conversion process is very much a hit or miss proposition.
Don't count on watching very many videos on this thing unless iRiver makes available some decent conversion software soon.

These are the three reasons why I did not give this gadget five stars:

First, the lousy earphones it comes with. A shame, given the cost of the unit.

Second, the difficulties with converting and loading videos into this thing. A pity because it greatly diminishes the use and value of its superb display.

Third, the cost factor. This unit, considering its memory size, is just too expensive vis a vis the competition.
If iRiver revises its pricing policies, includes quality earphones in the package and makes it easier to load videos into these devices, they just might sweep the market clean.

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Don't waste your money. What iRiver doesn't tell their customers is that once the battery goes dead, the system is useless. I will never buy one of their products again and I'm doing my best to inform everyone out there that they'll be tossing their money in the trash by purchasing any iRiver products. My system cost me $340.00 and it is now as useless as the customer service department at iRiver

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Amazon dropped the ball

I ordered the music and video player as a birthday present for my mother, with the plan of preloading it with video of her grandchildren. They sent me a refurbished iRiver T30 MP3 player (no video) and now I'm dealing with having to process the return and have no gift.

Come on Amazon... get it together

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