The product provides rich sound closer to the original sound, by supporting the codec for FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) files, as well as a variety of codec for music files in the form of MP3, WMA, ...
Despite the obsession of modern society with appearance, appearance, appearance, good looks don't always mean top quality...The latest player from iRiver - the 8GB E100 - comes from the opposite school of thought, putting practicality before looks...The five-way directional button panel occupies an unnecessarily large proportion of the front panel making the E100 quite a chunky...
On-the-go playlists are something iRiver has seen fit not to bless the E100 with, so you have to set them up via the supplied iRiver Plus 3 media management software...Charge is officially conveyed only through a USB cable, but in the spirit of enquiry and adventure we stuck an HTC USB phone charger into it and are happy to report the E100 charged up nicely without exploding...Not...
Compatible with several audio and video formats
microSD Card slot...Finicky controls
Tight viewing angles
Plain design...Compatibility with a wide range of formats and memory expansion can’t save the E100 from being just another iPod nano also-ran...A wonky control pad and pedestrian design, however, keep the E100 from being a premier portable music player...Measuring...
Battery life was quite good, though the bad news is that this player comes with no wall charger and must be charged via a PC or Mac's USB port (Powered of course...The good thing here is that many problems have been fixed via firmware upgrades provided by iriver, which I have got 3 times already since purchase in April...It has good features and poor ones as well...
