Berkovajazz
500+ Head-Fier
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why we forgot about irivers?
New models sounds still good
New models sounds still good
Cause their players are crap in todays market,...
Buttons are tactile.
UI is normal, better than on Cowon C2.
Screens are normal without any magic.
I was testing them with my microSD card (4Gb) and no problems with response, less than a minute.
Read about troubles with Sansa Players, but lot of people still loves them.
I don't find them bad, especially S100.
I don't see the point in iRivers - you may as well just get a Cowon.
Plus I would never want to use a player again that only had touch controls.
I think one reason iRiver was forgotten was because of missed opportunities. They created a very popular and high quality device in the H1xx series nearly ten years ago. That was followed with the H300 series which was then followed by....well....nothing. They had the ideas and the momentum to develop superior devices which would continue to appeal to the Head-fi crowd. When they shifted gears and went to smaller capacity players with only average performance (probably to satisfy the Asian market) they just lost many people's interest here.
I wish they had continued with what they had created....I still own four iRiver H1xx's and have been very happy with them.