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3.0 out of 5 stars Good price for features though not all work as advertised, September 14, 2010
This review is from: Sly Electronics 8 GB Video Music player with Video Recorder, 3 Inch Touchscreen, 5MP Digicam, Radio, and Speaker (Black) (Electronics)
I wanted to like this media player but We can only like it. Its about my 10th media player in the past and i also wanted cost effective gift. It looks good, screen is bright and clear, and allows a great feel. As well as the shiny black case is known as a fingerprint magnet. However has one fatal flaw which I'll find later.
First the good thing is. It does the majority of things it is said with the ads, especially at the price. Getting media in there is not hard drag and drop. There aren't many pleasant surprises. Touchscreen is responsive after calibration. Scrolling through long list may be possible by scrollbar a treadmill tap hold to the last visible list item along with the player will scroll through all 1000 songs on the list. You can actually multi task reading music with compatible functions like ebook reading or photo viewing. Unlike another reviewer, I played it for 3 hours straight leading to a battery indicator even reached half.
Now the bad news.
CAMERA
5MP camera photo quality is so bad they can be useless. Hazy and totally out of focus. A 1MP camera will give better photos.
thus you can't use player as camera, video recorder or webcam as advertised
VIDEO
Video playback is strict only videos changed into 320x240 or smaller will play. Which should you have an active avi collection or youtube could mean hours of converting. Almost nothing I downloaded played without conversion. I've owned other sub $50 players who were more forgiving of resolution.
MUSIC
Sound quality is a useful one. Controls are standard fare with ID3 tags, and responsive.
No playlist support. That's surprising because when you begin offering 8gb players which could hold 4000 in excess songs rrs really a requirement. You're able to create on the fly playlists if you can't mind tediously tapping on 4000 songs.
The loudspeaker volume is loud enough in many instances. Insurance plan radio stations needs the earphone cord a great antenna you wonrrrt take advantage of the loudspeaker to be handled by the air.
PHOTO
Can't rotate and should not zoom.
OTHER
Start up takes about 15 secs. During a world where Five sec is average, that seems really long.
Given the retail price, We forgive some of the misses for any price but advertising a 5MP camera which doesn't effort is a deal breaker.
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