Thanks for the suggestion about the sticker. I'm probably going to look for that stuff and then remove it in a few days or so. And yeah! I am amazed at the player! I updated the firmware almost immediately and I'm really impressed. I had read some complaints on the iriver website about bugs...

I finally got my player today! First impressions, I am very happy with it. I took it out of the box and I was immediately struck by how beautiful it looked. (I got the silver model.) It's so tiny too! Feels significantly smaller than the 350 I used to have. The leather case is also a...

FINALLY! My 550 has been shipped. That was actually sooner than I thought it would be, after they told me there would be a delay. I'm happy now. - Lauren-Eve

weird... I have no idea why those blinky things are next to my name. I didn't put them there! - Lauren-Eve P.S. Sorry for the pointless posts

you get free stuff for spending 280 bucks? I spent practically that much. 250 + shipping. I want free stuff too! - Lauren-Eve

How did you get them for free? For writing reviews? I think I will ask for some of those. Surely I could get at least a few for the 5 dollars they offered me. - Lauren-Eve

I checked out those CDs on the website... they do look really cool! I want some.

Thanks sohai! Good suggestion.

grrr... so frusterating. I heard back from audiocubes and they told me that there was a 'miscommunication between them and the warehouse' and now they say that they won't be receiving the silver unit until around August 10th. That is so frusterating. They offered either to send me a black...

thanks, sohai! You're right though, that is not very encouraging news... I have already emailed audio cubes about a MILLION times about various things so I'm a little reluctant to email them again. They have always been very prompt with their responses but I feel dumb emailing them AGAIN...

Sorry, I know this is a bit off topic but... If anyone here has ever ordered from audiocubes before (sohai, I know you have!) how long did it take for your order to go from the status of 'processing' to when it actually got shipped? I got an email a few days ago saying that the status of my...

sanity8me, It's hard to say whether paying the extra $ for the silver 550 was worth it. First of all, I haven't actually received the player yet so it's hard to comment... (Soon, I hope! And I will post comments when I get it.) It took me a long time to decide whether I wanted to get the...

The silver 550 is still not available in North America, and might not be... When I emailed iRiver asking about this, they just wrote me back saying that only the black was available in North America. I decided to go for the silver player anyway and ordered it from audiocubes.com although it...

No problem about the confusion! Anyway, I'm happy that at least semi-decent earbuds are going to come with the player this time. My old headphones that I liked broke a while ago and I haven't had the money to buy new ones... So at least the Sennheisers will be good enough to listen to until...

On the iriver Japan site, the pictures show a player shipping with earbud headphones. Are those not the ones that come with the player? I read on some of the international websites that in other countries the 550 is shipping with the MX 300s, but I couldn't find anything about American or...