doomlordis
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Good, i didnt like the scroll wheel at first but it gets easier after about 30 minutes. This is a great offering from Iriver, the price is £20 cheaper than a 8gb Nano and you get the following extras :
Removable battery
Expandable memory
Radio
Good movie plaback (30fps)
Line in
Voice recorder
In built speakers (go loud and sound ok)
I think if people were being offered both at retail it would be hard to refuse the X20.
Box Contents
Player, earphones, disc and quick start guide.
Sound Quality
It goes loud, it sounds very good , coming from an iaudio x5 the first thing i noticed was the bass being less in your face, having listened for a while now the bass if there and it is accurate , it doesnt invade the mids the way my X5does. (I like bass).
It sounds a lot like my clix.
Overall music playback is above average but not class leading.
The video playback is excellent , i watched band of brothers this morning and it looks crisp and text is clean and easy to read A+.
Radio reception is good (not as good as clix though (from memory))
The speakers are a really great bonus, if you leave the player back down on a desk (covering the speakers) it adds some bass. TIP - Plugging earphones into the line in also acts as an ariel so you can listen to radio through the speakers!
Build Quality
This baby is light, i was shocked by how light it is.
Like i said the scroll wheel is small and seems tricky at first but after a short while it becomes much easier.
The screen is an LCD , i have a clix and i much prefer the X20s screen , why?
You can read it with the backlight off, big + and it wont start to dim within 2 years.
The player is plastic , the sides feel like metal but i dont think they are.
It is a solid player though , i think i would survive some falls.
The battery is removed in the same way as a mobile phone.
It also doesnt look like it will be a scratch magnet , it comes with a decent screen protector attached.
UI
I switched it from MSC to MTP when i got it as i like Media player 11 , i have tested MSC and it shows the X20 up as 2 drives (internal and external memory).
MSC is much faster to transfer but the player did not pick up all tag info with this method, some albums were in the wrong track order as will.
MTP works perfectly.
The scroll wheel scrolls (funnily enough) between photos, videos, music , now playing , recording , radio , browse device (cant delete from here) and settings. Pressing play or right will select the highlighted option, video and photos take you into a folder, music brings up a menu with play all, playlists, artist, songs, albums, genres, saved recordings , a further press of play or right takes you into the next tier - you get it.
Playlisting seems to be external only! I cant find a add song type function, i may be wrong- i dont have the manual handy at the moment.
Hopefully a firmware upgrade could sort this.
Battery
I did a test last night , battery has been charged 3 times , i put it on repeat , 192kbps MP3 ,25 volume - got 19.5 hours- pretty damn good.
Overall a great player, much better spec than any other in the price range.
Removable battery
Expandable memory
Radio
Good movie plaback (30fps)
Line in
Voice recorder
In built speakers (go loud and sound ok)
I think if people were being offered both at retail it would be hard to refuse the X20.
Box Contents
Player, earphones, disc and quick start guide.
Sound Quality
It goes loud, it sounds very good , coming from an iaudio x5 the first thing i noticed was the bass being less in your face, having listened for a while now the bass if there and it is accurate , it doesnt invade the mids the way my X5does. (I like bass).
It sounds a lot like my clix.
Overall music playback is above average but not class leading.
The video playback is excellent , i watched band of brothers this morning and it looks crisp and text is clean and easy to read A+.
Radio reception is good (not as good as clix though (from memory))
The speakers are a really great bonus, if you leave the player back down on a desk (covering the speakers) it adds some bass. TIP - Plugging earphones into the line in also acts as an ariel so you can listen to radio through the speakers!
Build Quality
This baby is light, i was shocked by how light it is.
Like i said the scroll wheel is small and seems tricky at first but after a short while it becomes much easier.
The screen is an LCD , i have a clix and i much prefer the X20s screen , why?
You can read it with the backlight off, big + and it wont start to dim within 2 years.
The player is plastic , the sides feel like metal but i dont think they are.
It is a solid player though , i think i would survive some falls.
The battery is removed in the same way as a mobile phone.
It also doesnt look like it will be a scratch magnet , it comes with a decent screen protector attached.
UI
I switched it from MSC to MTP when i got it as i like Media player 11 , i have tested MSC and it shows the X20 up as 2 drives (internal and external memory).
MSC is much faster to transfer but the player did not pick up all tag info with this method, some albums were in the wrong track order as will.
MTP works perfectly.
The scroll wheel scrolls (funnily enough) between photos, videos, music , now playing , recording , radio , browse device (cant delete from here) and settings. Pressing play or right will select the highlighted option, video and photos take you into a folder, music brings up a menu with play all, playlists, artist, songs, albums, genres, saved recordings , a further press of play or right takes you into the next tier - you get it.
Playlisting seems to be external only! I cant find a add song type function, i may be wrong- i dont have the manual handy at the moment.
Hopefully a firmware upgrade could sort this.
Battery
I did a test last night , battery has been charged 3 times , i put it on repeat , 192kbps MP3 ,25 volume - got 19.5 hours- pretty damn good.
Overall a great player, much better spec than any other in the price range.
