iriver H10 mp3 player

The 5Gb laborious drive market is awash with gamers all vying to be the highest canine, so what makes iriver’s H10 stand out from the gang? We have a look and discover out.

Known as the H10, the 5Gb MP3 participant is small and compact measuring 95.5 X 54.6 X 15 (mm)in measurement. The entrance boasts a 1.5in color display and a vertical sliding management mechanism nearly an identical to the Artistic Zen Micro (anticipate a regulation case quickly). Further to the slider, the participant sports activities a again, and choose button on the entrance, play and quantity management buttons on the aspect and a maintain button on the highest. The participant is available in 4 totally different colors in an try to attraction to those that don’t desire simply the usual silver, or nowadays white.

Get contained in the participant and on the floor it is your normal MP3 participant that helps drag and drop performance through USB2.0. Menus are simple to regulate, all through the vertical contact slider, and for MP3 playback the participant provides the standard sorting strategies; artist, album, style and playlists.

Get previous the participant capabilities and the FM radio and also you realise there’s extra to the H10 than meets the attention. The primary characteristic that stands out is an image possibility that lets you view pictures you have saved within the photos folder.

In contrast to the iPod Photograph you’ll be able to merely drag and drop the pictures you need to view on the participant into the proper folder and away you go. This does have its drawbacks, primarily that enormous recordsdata take longer to view, however on the entire it really works very nicely. Just like the iPod Photograph, nevertheless iriver has additionally missed the trick. You possibly can’t simply plug in a digital digicam and obtain your pictures on the fly, however the drag and drop performance is actually a step in the precise route.

In an identical vein the H10 additionally has the flexibility to retailer and look at .txt recordsdata. That is an attention-grabbing thought and it solely works as a result of the display’s high quality is so sharp (262k). We aren’t suggesting that you just learn a guide on it, however it would get you out of a bind in the event you actually do have to learn that doc. Our perception is that individuals will use this to retailer emergency contact particulars or passwords (which is a very unhealthy thought) as you’re restricted to only .txt recordsdata. We tried it with .rtf and even .doc codecs however to no avail.

Our fast take

Total this participant is simple to make use of and performs nicely producing a great sound that coped nicely with every part we performed (Crystal Technique to Bob Dylan) in our checks. iriver promise a 12 hour battery and our checks proved this was the case so long as you did not view too many photos. If you happen to weren’t pleased after all, you can change the telephones.

The addition of a great high quality display to view pictures places it above the iPod Photograph though it does not have the storage capability to match.

What is the catch? There is not one actually. The participant works nicely with each Mac and PCs (due to the drag and drop) and the scale means its nonetheless sufficiently small to tuck out of the best way. Our one piece of recommendation although, is to throw away the rubber casing as quickly as you open the field because it makes the participant unusable with it on.