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Centon 1GB USB 2.0 Digital MP3 WMA Player Voice Recorder Flash Drive
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(3.5 out of 5)
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(4 out of 5) by Kyle Heuer on Nov 22, 2009 (Corvallis, OR United States)Upsides: This Mp3 player is very portable. The small design is great to have in your pant pockets, sweatshirt, or backpack. The hold switch is nice to have and you don't have to worry about accidentally clicking it. This player lasted me about a year and a half for $20.00. I consider that pretty good. You do not need ITunes for this!
Downsides: Letters can rub off easily. The case, though small and durable, can still look like garbage. Mine closely resembles the stuff. Audiobooks would occasionally put the last tracks first, but this was not to much of a problem since it would only be 2 tracks. When mine finally went, it was the play button. It got stuck inside of the player. It just eventually happened. I did have a couple problems with it turning off when I was playing music but this only happened about 5 times.
I never got the chance to use the voice recorder or FM radio.
With 30+ mins of music or audiobook being played daily for over a year I consider this player worth buying if you are strapped for cash.
Downsides: Letters can rub off easily. The case, though small and durable, can still look like garbage. Mine closely resembles the stuff. Audiobooks would occasionally put the last tracks first, but this was not to much of a problem since it would only be 2 tracks. When mine finally went, it was the play button. It got stuck inside of the player. It just eventually happened. I did have a couple problems with it turning off when I was playing music but this only happened about 5 times.
I never got the chance to use the voice recorder or FM radio.
With 30+ mins of music or audiobook being played daily for over a year I consider this player worth buying if you are strapped for cash.
Flimsly construction, but it works.
(2 out of 5) by Chino on Nov 8, 2009 (New York)This is bulkier than it should be.
The controls are kind of odd, but not really complicated.
The controls are kind of odd, but not really complicated.
This is a nice product for the price
(4 out of 5) by Anjanette L. Hatchett on May 22, 2009 (MICHIGAN, USA)This is a great product, easy to operate and nice to use when walking or can even be hooked up in your car if accessable. It did not come with alot of instructions but it was easy to figure out, Cool featured like the radio and voice recorder are great.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Don't buy!
(1 out of 5) by Srinath Vadlamani on Nov 26, 2008 (Boulder, CO United States)The device does not keep tracks in proper order. A new AAA battery will be drained when uploading music. A new AAA battery will be drained when left in the product overnight, in the off position.
Horrible costumer service. Just an email address, no phone contact. Looks like a shop out of someones NYC apartment.
Waste of money!
Horrible costumer service. Just an email address, no phone contact. Looks like a shop out of someones NYC apartment.
Waste of money!
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1GB 4-in-1 MP3 Player with FM radio / Pen Drive / Recorder WMA
(1 out of 5) by C. A. Luster on Nov 24, 2008 (Burke, VA USA)When I bought two of these for under twenty-five dollars each I figured it was a bargain because of the reviews. Let me clarify a couple things about this Chinese Digital MP3 player. I got these in and tested one since in fact one was for me in the office and the other a gift for a charity.
Pros: It is a low price for a two gigabyte player, radio, pen drive, recorder. That's right, the box shows two GB checked, not one, and it is a two gigabyte player since I checked the properties as soon as I plugged the USB into my PC. It doesn't cost near as much as name brands for all this functionality. It comes with a paper user manual and a soft copy on the CD driver disk. The instructions appear to be clear on the players usage. It turns itself off if you leave it sitting without use after just a minute to conserve the battery.
Cons: Whoever did their product photography is a master of deception. The player in REAL life looks bulky and cheap, cheap, cheap. It is cheap, cheap, cheap, and I don't mean that in a nice way. Ever walk down the street in a large city and buy something from a street vendor? Now it was cheap, but you didn't figure it would last right? This is that kind of cheap. You can tell it was not made with quality materials or workmanship by a name brand. The instructions appear to be clear on the players usage, wait till you try to follow them. The player and headphones are a cheap plastic that could easily be crushed. The plastic buttons feel sloppy when you use them, like they were cheaply made overseas. Good luck trying to figure out out to play it. There is no play button just a digital readout you have to highlight, then supposedly press a Universal button to play. I never got it to work. It copies files from the PC to the USB very slowly. I had no luck trying to install the drivers on a XP PC. I doubt they will install on anything newer than Windows 98 from the look of the folders on the CD. Mine could only be used as USB.
Under no circumstances pay more than fifteen dollars for this player if that. I highly recommend you buy a name brand instead. This one is not easy to use and I couldn't get it to play music or record and playback after an hour of reading the instructions and messing with it. At this point it is nothing more than a overpriced USB drive to me. I will rewrite this with more stars if I ever get it to play music, record, or do anything besides transfer files. Maybe I'm spoiled with my Sony MP3 player that is easy to use, but this is far to hard to use. That or the player is broke. I tested the headphones on another player and they worked fine so I know the problem isn't the headphones.
CA Luster
Pros: It is a low price for a two gigabyte player, radio, pen drive, recorder. That's right, the box shows two GB checked, not one, and it is a two gigabyte player since I checked the properties as soon as I plugged the USB into my PC. It doesn't cost near as much as name brands for all this functionality. It comes with a paper user manual and a soft copy on the CD driver disk. The instructions appear to be clear on the players usage. It turns itself off if you leave it sitting without use after just a minute to conserve the battery.
Cons: Whoever did their product photography is a master of deception. The player in REAL life looks bulky and cheap, cheap, cheap. It is cheap, cheap, cheap, and I don't mean that in a nice way. Ever walk down the street in a large city and buy something from a street vendor? Now it was cheap, but you didn't figure it would last right? This is that kind of cheap. You can tell it was not made with quality materials or workmanship by a name brand. The instructions appear to be clear on the players usage, wait till you try to follow them. The player and headphones are a cheap plastic that could easily be crushed. The plastic buttons feel sloppy when you use them, like they were cheaply made overseas. Good luck trying to figure out out to play it. There is no play button just a digital readout you have to highlight, then supposedly press a Universal button to play. I never got it to work. It copies files from the PC to the USB very slowly. I had no luck trying to install the drivers on a XP PC. I doubt they will install on anything newer than Windows 98 from the look of the folders on the CD. Mine could only be used as USB.
Under no circumstances pay more than fifteen dollars for this player if that. I highly recommend you buy a name brand instead. This one is not easy to use and I couldn't get it to play music or record and playback after an hour of reading the instructions and messing with it. At this point it is nothing more than a overpriced USB drive to me. I will rewrite this with more stars if I ever get it to play music, record, or do anything besides transfer files. Maybe I'm spoiled with my Sony MP3 player that is easy to use, but this is far to hard to use. That or the player is broke. I tested the headphones on another player and they worked fine so I know the problem isn't the headphones.
CA Luster