A certain amount of geekiness required...

It certainly pays to read up on this player; straight out of the box it wasn't an easy-working unit. A firmware upgrade was a must, and it didn't work with Windows Media Player 11. The instruction book did say this; though I'd read of others who used WMP 11 successfully. Back to WMP10, and then there's definitely a learning curve on how to use it.
I will say that this was my first MP3 etc. player, however, so maybe it was par for the course.
On the plus side, it's definitely cute and quite a curiosity. I gave this to my wife fully loaded, as a "modern version of a locket"!

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As I expected...

If you value cool things, design, music and don`t need pictures and video on your mp3 player, go for it. The only thing I miss is faster forwarding\rewinding. The speed doesn`t go up when you want to forward\rewind e.g. 100 min. set, it takes a while to get to the end.
The SRS sound is great.

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Great player

My daughter asked "Santa" for an i-pod video, but due to the price, and potential risk of damaging it (she's 10 yo), I tried to convinced her the cube was the real deal to ask Santa for. Anyway, she was kind of skeptic but she agreed to ask for it, so I came to amazon and bought one right on time to have it prior to 24th.
I was lot more anxious than her to open the box, so finally on the morning of 25th I had it on my hand; what an amazing piece of tech is this. I also saw cnet reviews about how hard are the menus and also to press the tiny buttons, but I almost completely disagree (is just a matter of using it 2 or 3 times to be fully able to use them). I have big hands, and so far no big problems to manipulate controls. Of course you don't have a HDTV on that tiny screen, but good enough to watch, maybe, a video of you preferred artist? or have some pics on it you can show your friends? Also even tough it looks fragile, putting the protection "shirt" in it makes it feel a lot more secure. Sound quality ... EXCELLENT.
I have no eagle eye vision, but, enough good to read the screen, which as the previous comment pointed, may be hard to read only for those with poor vision.
How easy is to load and delete music and/or files on it, not requiring any software, only copy/paste knowledge.
In short, I strongly recommend this tiny device as a great and price-worthy gift, and I haven't had a chance to download video or pics yet, but I'm sure it won't be complex as some people says on forums. Once I'm experienced on this I'll post my point of view, but it will hardly be to say it's as complex as sending a rocket to the moon :)

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