Reviews for iRiver H10 20GB MP3 Player - Remix Blue

iRiver H10

Strengths: very good quality of sound, tuner and tuner recording, text and picture viewing, fast, voice recording, cheap

Weakness: cannot manage files directly, only using pc, no video support

I have been using this cute device for app. 2 weeks, and this is what i think about it:

It is bigger than iPod but still very small, very practical, its sound is very good and besides that, no iPod has better sound than iRiver H10 because of the SRS WOW effect that iRiver has. When i connected it to my pc for first time, i was little bit dismayed, for Windows doesn't recognize it as a portable hard drive, but as an mp3 player, which has no firm address (e.g. E:). They also say that you can only use Windows Media Player to get music on in. But this is what I have found out: You can get your music on your iRiver H10 without using any WMP. This is how you do it:
1. Turn your iRiver off
2. Reset it (you should know how:)
3. connect it to your pc (still turned off)
4. press and hold "o" button and turn it on (still holding the button until a title "emergency connection" appears)
5. your Windows recognizes the player not as a player, but as a portable hadr disc drive (the same thing asi if you wanted to upgrade your firmware)
6. turn on showing of hidden files in Windows
7. you can open iRiver's folder and see several folders there, e.g. music and so on. Now transfer your music there (including your whole folder and subfolder structure). Then you must set them to be hidden (i mean whole "Music folder, including the subfolders and files"). You can transfer your music and text files on the iRiver this way as well. The iRiver's browser will show them all.
8. Now disconnect the iRiver and refresh its database (in settings, extra). Now you can listen to your music ot using WMP.

Since reference is focused on this trick, I will not describe its flaws and strenghts, for you can read about them everywhere (what you cannot say about this)
I find this way the best way how to get your music on Iriver, and with this feature, iRiver becomes much more usable than any iPod with its weak iTunes.

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H10 20 Gb, It works

Strengths: Doesn't just do music, does photo's, fm radio etc

Weakness: Bigger than other mp3 players, low resolution screen, slow reaction time to input, I/O interface can be flakey

I've had this mp3 player for just about a year, I got it just when it first came out. It does the job of an mp3 player and seems to work with windows fairly well.
I soon found out that the nice color screen was pretty crappy resolution, and at least without firmware updates, you could not zoom in on pictures, making that function not always that useful.
After loading all my music on it, I found it extremely useful as a backup hardrive when my computer crashed and I lots all my music on my laptop. When i got my laptop repaired, I simply plugged in the h10 and wala, I was able to copy all my music back onto my laptop.
The main complaint I have is that it does not update tags on other music, it only loads new songs onto it. This became annoying when I had a few songs mistagged and they would not move. The other thing was the firmware, with the new firmware update (a couple months ago i think) It seemed to have a lot more trouble syncing. Sometimes it would be fine and sync quickly, others it would take almost a half hour to load a couple new songs or just crash and say it was having I/O problems, then the device would freeze and i'd have to reboot it.

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Iriver H10 20Gb

I Had Iriver H10 20Gb mp3 player for the last 5 months and it has worked perfectly, the sound is great the colour is good up till now. The screen does not show anything on it and is just a green screen. I am sometimes able to find a song whilst the green screen is on but what is the point if you cant see what you are doing or what song you are listening too. i have tried reseting it several times but still nothing.

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IRiver H10 20GB MP3 Player, Great Player

Weakness: I can't delete files from it directly (must use the computer, but by then I forget which files I wanted to delete). Designed to work with only WMP10.

It's nice and light overall... the little up/down selector takes a bit of getting used to... given Apple's circle selector is much more intuitive...

The overall palm feel is good on the HD10 - it has a nice balance, better than iPod because I think iPod is pretty slim... Moreover, the hard-drive compartment must be sealed or something because you can't hear the spin and you definitely can't feel it on the device.

The screen is quite nice. Given the fact that the iRiver is really just a lcd panel hooked up to a hard drive, I wouldn't be surprised if in future models of the firmware, we get a small MPG4 player or something in it... the chipset seems fast enough...

So you can put your pictures and everything else on it. It's not ideal... but it works.

It also holds text. This is an interesting idea... I suppose the idea is to put e-books on it or something... I know another software manufacturer has developed a package that will read the text from the files and turn them into audio...

As for file support... and here's where things get a bit ugly... all your "itunes" stuff - its 3 sheets to the wind as well... iriver does not support AC3 or Apple's itunes at all.. nor is there an easy way to put it into HD mode and move the files over....

It supports WMF files (windows media) and MP3... plus something called SRS for 360 surround sound (don't have anything like that so I don't know if it works or not).

The sound coming off it through my Sony MDR-EX71SL headphones seems flawless enough. The iRiver has an EQ built in and it works pretty well. You can choose standard formats (classicial, rock, etc.) or manipulate it yourselve on 7 bands...

The software - its windows media... which is confusing to use initially if you've been conditioned with iTunes. I think Microsoft needs a better tune's management product... but iRiver apparently has no native tunes/device management. This is a problem in many respects...

All in all - if you're like me and its once bitten-twice shy with Apple... don't do the Zen, get this product...

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iRiver H10 20GB MP3 Player - Remix Blue

Strengths: Overall looks, quality feel, color screen, sound quality, upload speed, all the extras (ie FM tuner, recorder, and picture viewer), and price.

Weakness: They only designed it to communicate on Windows XP SP2 with Windows Media Player 10, which is no problem for me, but seems rather dumb on their part to leave so many users out.

I am a very scrupulous guy when it comes to spending my money. If I'm going to dish out a good chunk of dough for an mp3 player, I WILL get the best one for me. Reading endless reviews, I narrowed it down to the Creative Zen Touch and the 20G Ipod. Luckily, I went to the store to try these out, which I highly recommend that you do too. Each user is going to have a different opinion of what mp3 player's interface is more intuitive, so try before you buy... that's #1. The Zen Touch was horribly overrated in my opinion. It was bulky, the touch pad was terrible, and the interface just plain stunk. The Ipod is, of course, very nice, but stacked up with the IRiver H10 it is a child's toy. If they were both the same price, I'd go with IRiver every time. But the IRiver is actually quite a bit cheaper, so this was a no-brainer decision for me. Just pick up the IRiver and you feel it was designed with more thought than any of the others. There is not as many accessories to go with it as the Ipod, but the essentials are there and are just as quality made. If there's one thing you really need to do if you're considering the H10, it's go somewhere like Best Buy and try it out.

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good but bad sync

Strengths: fm tuner with good quality,color screen,20 gb,jpeg compatible and txt compatible

Weakness: bad sync

This item is very good except trying to sync it with wmp is very difficult. The more songs you add the slower it seems to be. Also when plugged into my computer it does not use it as an external hard drive and the icon to choose it disappears sometimes. It is not always recognized by wmp. The first time sync was perfect because I was starting from nothing but now every time I want to add any songs I have to delete all the songs on the player and start from nothing. VERY TIME CONSUMING. Wmp is very slow and some program called uWDF.exe keeps loading when my player is plug and causes my computer to slow down a lot. It tends to sync fine when I only put about 5 or 6 GB of music but after that it declines I reliability. I have had to reset the player 5 or 6 times because of syncing problems. WHEN THE PLAYER IS NOT PLUGED INTO THE COMPUTER IT WORKS GREAT. I would recommend only if iriver came out with a better way to sync.

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iRiver H10 20GB MP3 Player - Remix Blue

Strengths: Great sound, nearly flawless implementaton of DRM for both Napser to Go and Yahoo Music subscription services, features galore, including a good FM receiver and recorder. Picture support.

Weakness: No one has come up with anything as good or better than the ipod's clickwheel: the touch strip on this unit is a pain in the rear and makes searching for songs more difficult than it should be.

A whale of a player and a very attractive device. Somewhat thicker than an ipod, but very sturdy and comes with a very useful and utilitarian silicone protective case. The sound is fantastic, and I have found this unit to work just perfectly with Napster to Go and Yahoo Unlimited in successfully downloading DRM protected "rented" songs. I love the concept, as one can download thousands of songs for no additional charge over and above the monthly subscription fee. Bought mine at a local Best Buy after seeing that it was available on the website and in stock locally.

The one small drawback is the touch strip which the user must use to toggle through the title and album lists to get to the desired song. It is just not as speedy or as accurate as the ipod 4g clickwheel, but I can live with this shortcoming to get one of the first 20gb players available with a color screen and the DRM Janus support required by services like Napster to Go and Yahoo Music. Way to go iriver!!

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Excellent Player

Strengths: Easy interface, 20 GB space, voice recorder with built in FM

Weakness: Battery life, better manual

I just recently purchased a iRiver 20GB and I have to say after a week of use, this player is one of the best ever, in my humble opinion. I bought this mp3 player after my iPod broke, as they often tend to do. The scroll bar is much more intuitive than the iPod's scroll wheel. The player also uses WMP and Plays for sure. I'm not going to much argue why you should buy this over a Creative Zen Micro or anything because for the most part, Apple owns the business and, if the X-Men have taught us anything, we must attack the Jugernaut's head. A lot of people complain about battery life, but I played it for about 10 hours and still had 2/4 battery left. This player has a BEAUTIFUL color screen. One problem I have, though, is the lack of CD art display on the "Now Playing" screen. Really though this isn't so much a major gripe, it just would be kinda cool. Also my player was defected but I just ordered a replacement on Amazon and my new one is due in just a little while. While I cannot transfer files from the mp3 player to my PC yet I have heard that it is possible. The player is super slick and definately looks cooler than the iPod and its white case. The player comes with a FM radio recorder/player and you can even record voices, like the ones in my head. Although I had to refer to the manual when I was trying to figure out how to do some things, in other words degrade my manhood, The iRiver 20GB is well worth your money.

To sum things up:

Pros
Screen andthe interface
20GB
Sleek and Slick
Just overall seems super solid and impervious to all drops
Compact
Price
FM Radio Player/ Recorder


Cons
Battery life
Start up and downloading songs, I had to refer to the manual

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IRiver H10 20gb, great player/picture viewer

Strengths: Excellent battery life, fairly easy to navigate, user interface. Nice screen. Good aftermarket accessories

Weakness: No video, stock headphones leave a little to be desired.

Overall I would say this is a very high quality mp3 player. For the price (only 180) it is a great deal, and I could justify paying up to 220-230 for it.

It may not be as "cool" as the ipod, but the only thing that color ipods (not video) have that this doesn't is itunes integration, and it's not even that big of a deal.

Iriver produces very high quality mp3 players, and the H10 is no exception.

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Good alternative to my Ipod

Strengths: Lots of extra features

Weakness: None

I bought it because my Ipod does not have FM tuner and I desperately needed it. Before buying I made exrensive research and decided to buy this player. The FM tuner is nice if you don't want to go through your own songs anymore.

Additional features that the player has are an FM recoding, voice recording, line-in recording, and the clock on the screen is a brilliant idea.

If you're buying it for video and pictures, it may not be the best choice. If you're buying for music and like to have the other features then it's a great player.

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iRiver H10 20 GB

Strengths: cute, colourful, great sound! better than iPod and many more features!

Weakness: ages to navigate through songs, NEEDS better firmware. Small but bigger than iPod. The 'shuffle & Repeat' function sometimes repeats the same song immediately after playing! grrrr...

I love it, and i bought this in place of an iPod because it does not need iTunes, instead communicates through Windows Explorer and Media Player.
Other features are the radio, voice recording, line in recording (only with docking station, which is NOT available for the 20GB but only for the 5GB! :-( text viewer (for what though...) Picture viewer, and also uses SRS'WOW' for great sound. The battery's great, and the unit is quite solid. Again; it NEEDS BETTER FIRMWARE to make us any happier! The shuffle and repeat setting will repeat the same song over and over, and doesn't have any memory of songs already played, therefore repeating a song before going through the playlist.

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Good choice, but...........

Strengths: Great sound, well made, nice protective case, easy-to-read-screen.

Weakness: Not able to delete sound tracks "on the fly", few accessories, hard to get a hold of customer service at iriveramerica.com, battery is not replacable by owner.

I am a techno challenged consummer, but I have a different perspective that may give you some help in evaluating this product. I bought from B&H Photo not the cheapest, but close to it. It has an excellent rating as a merchant, they did not disappoint me.
The sound is great. I bought a cable with RC As on one end and headphone connection on the other (to the H 10) and listened to my tunes through home stereo. It was as good as CD player. I bought light weight headphones and the sound was great here too. If you want a great sound and lots of memory this is a good choice......But if you want an even better deal, do this. After you buy your H 10, go to Rhapsody-to-go and sign up for the 1 year service. At $15 per month you can "rent music for about the cost of one CD!! Here's the best part, they will give you a rebate for $100.00 This means you can listen to about a million tracks for a year for $80.00 or a little more than $6.50/ month!! I think any H 10 qualifies for this offer.

Now the other side. The biggest gripe I have with the H 10 comes from the iriveramerica website. In it they claimed that the unit has a replacable battery. Well the 1,5 and 6 GB do. But the 20 does not. Eventually these batteries wear out. I'm not rich, so I had to think twice about keeping this thing. It sounds so great, I can't send it back.
Also, you can't delete a song from the H 10 unless it is through the WPM, that's nuts. I called customer support, good luck getting through, and they told me that a firmware update will take care of that. How soon? they don't know. To his credit , support helped set up a playlist on WPM. Again I'm techno challenged so the need to connect just to delete a track is a pain...but this thing sounds so good, I just can't send it back.

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iriver slow, unreponsive

Strengths: Napster-to-go compatibility makes this a strong choice for audiophiles without massive budgets. Audio quality with SRS WOW is UN-Believeable, it truly is.

Weakness: Measured 10 second delay between some song switches, bad response from the center nav strip, sync'ing is fragile and finnicky, and the on-board track management I need is non-existent.

This is a great device with a solid sound quality and a large appeal to buyers who cannot spend .99 per track that they w
ant to listen to.

I have, however, found that in side by side comparisons with my unit and my fathers unit, that they both exhibit ridiculous delay be
tween songs. Some, to it's credit, will switch fine, but I have done a stop watch test to approximately 350 tracks on each unit, an
d the average track switch time is 9-11 seconds, respectively, provided the device actually switches to the next track and does not
just go to stop mode, forcing you to restart your shuffle or playlist.

Photo image viewer is noticably grainy, but I bought the device for music, so I could quite frankly care less.

There is very little comparison however where sound is concerned. The iriver, when you enable the SRS equalizer settings, has head a
nd shoulders better sound than any iPod I've ever owned.

The navigation strip is functional, but it really does not do very well scrolling up or down using the actual scroll. It works much better if you just put your finger on the arrow and apply pressure to move up or down. The two buttons are responsive, unless the device is switching songs, and the location of the play/pause and forward/reverse buttons is a little strange compared to what I'm used to.

The screen is flawless, the menus are well done and easy to get through.

I am however dissapointed at the lack of on-board track mamangement, such as deleting, moving to new folders, etc, and the fact that most track management has to be done through windows media player...ugh. Granted, the iPod's do none of that either, so it's a moot point for comparison.

The Napster-to-go concept is great, but the service is not so hot. Transfers sometimes slow down to a crawl, which I'm guessing is because of the link to WMP that Napster has to use.

There is no limit to the amount of tracks you can get however, as I downloaded darn near 2000 songs the first night I had the player. Napsters selection is not bad, all things considered.

There are a few bugs in the Napster software, sometimes causing the device to stop responding, which requires you to reconnect it.
Overall, I would say the iriver h10 20g clocks in right where you would expect it to.

It's about a 75% replica of what works the best, the iPod. It has some nicer features, and some horribly worse features (defects? software/hardware lacking?). I have to admit that sometimes it seems like the iPod is working with a Pentium 4 while the iriver is stuck with a 386.

It has numerous bugs in the system and the software that I have just never found with my Ipods. The battery life is amazing, but I always keep my devices on cradles at work or at home anyways, so battery life has never even been a concern for me.

It just seems like to me that the product was an attempt to undercut the iPod using Napster-to-go and a different price point, although that price point has been matched now by the color iPod 20g.

In the end, I will be returning my iriver h10 20g to get the newer 20g color iPod, the 10 second track switch delay and the bugs in the track switching are just too much for me, I'm very picky about functionality, and I cannot ignore the fact that my iPod, on a bad day, takes less than a second to switch tracks.

So, back to .99 a track for me, which sucks, but I cannot bring myself to use what seems in many ways to be inferior technology. (Processor, HD access speed, reliability.) I bought this as a replacement to my aging 40g Ipod with the 4 buttons and the wheel, which worked fine still, and I did not expect to go backwards. The iPod still remains as the pinnacle of fast, efficient and easy to use players, even with the battery problems. I wanted a technology upgrade, not processor lag in between songs.

The iriver is a great device if you want sound quality, but those who enjoy music on demand and seamless track switching need to look elsewhere.

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Good Player

Strengths: Beautiful; high-capacity.

Weakness: None

I got an incredible deal on this player, so that may color my opinion, but this is the iPod killer! The FM tuner just truly seals the deal. Go for it.

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didn`t go with the flow this time

Strengths: good sound quality, easy to use, compability with windows media player (no itunes), good battery life,fm radio, voice recording

Weakness: not many accesorries available, remote sold separetly, smaller display than ipod, thicker than ipod, no prewiev when searching pctures......no video?

i bought this mp3 player because i didn`t want to use apple i tunes and it was much cheaper.my friend has an ipod and he almost returned it because of itunes. this fight between microsoft and apple company is sick. you can buy only ipod accesorries in stores like best buy or circuit city. and once again history repeats and when too giants fight ordinary people will "suffer"(i like ipod tough i had one but it froze and i cannot use it again). this product is perfect if you don`t have to be "in".I haven`t had no problems with it so far
and it works well.

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iRiver H10 20GB MP3 Player - Remix Blue

Strengths: None

Weakness: This mp3 player is a piece of junk. The user interface is very poorly designed. The player randomly lost its drivers which caused a loss of all information on the player. Customer services was SLOW

I really have nothing good to say about this product. The player would randomly loose some operating system files that would require reformatting the entire unit to restore the files. This also meant that you have to reinstall all the files onto the unit. Even though it is a USB 2.0, it still takes considerable time to reload the 1000 songs I had on the player. I then had problems with my computer recognizing the player, and attempted to call iriver for technical support. I first tried to resolve the problem using their self-help web page. After trying everything suggested on the page I decided to call. I waited on the phone for 4 hours, only to be hung up on after talking to a rep for only five minutes resolving nothing. I decided to try sending an email. I sent the email request for support on Aug 31, 2005, and finally got a response on Sept 29, 2005. In their response, all I got was the information from the self-help web page pasted into an email. Fortunately, instead of waiting to resolve this problem I returned the product three weeks ago and got a similar player from another manufacturer.

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good sound, slow and difficult to use

Strengths: Good sound, holds a lot of music

Weakness: EXTREMELY slow to access music, pause button in an awkward spot. Poor instruction booklet. Two have frozen up on me.

I bought this mp3 player at the recommendation of the salesperson. Never having had one before I had a difficult time figuring out how to transfer music the first time. The pause button is located on the side of the player. Frequently when I was exercising and pulled it out of my pocket I would accidentally hit the pause button. It is slow to start again. 10-15 second lag time to start playing a song. First one froze up 1 month after I had it. The second one froze up within 2 weeks.With both of them I was unable to turn it off, or access anything on it. I am returning it today to get an IPOD. Maybe the sound isn't as good, but hopefully I will get some sound.

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Excellent player for the money

Strengths: Good sound, picture capability, excellent value

Weakness: Can't delete directly from the player

I've had it for a few weeks and am very happy with it. I've seen one or two reviews that say you have to use WMP 10 to manage files on it. This is not true, if you install the firmware upgrade to 2.51 or whatever it is. After doing that, I found I was able to just drag folders to it from Windows explorer - music and pictures. I couldn't do playlists that way, nor was I able to figure out how to do them using WMP. This led me to scout around, and I found out that you can work the player with Napster, with Rhapsody, and with the Yahoo Music Engine. I now mainly use it with the Yahoo Music Engine, because you can easily select what you're going to put in your Yahoo music library, and can keep your subscription files separate until you're ready to bring them over. If you get the player, upgrade the firmware right away, and I wouldn't even fool with using it with WMP.

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By member: deanhatescoffee - Apr 27, 2006

Best on the market

Strengths: Great battery life, excellent sound quality

Weakness: Firmware upgrading, backlight resets

I love this MP3 player. It does everything I want it to and more. The sound quality is superb. With the SRS WOW setting enabled, listening to music with headphones is a whole new experience; it really feels like the music is all around me. Combined with my iriver FM Transmitter, I can take my music anywhere I want to go.

The firmware upgrade didn't go quite as smoothly as one would hope; I had to do it twice. Other reviews for this player talk about a lag between songs when on Random - my player is 75% full and I haven't noticed any lag whatsoever, so maybe that issue was fixed on the firmware upgrade. Twice, when I turned my player on, the screen's backlight doesn't work. I can just barely see that the screen is on, but I can't make out anything it says without the backlight. The only way to fix this is by resetting the player which, thankfully, is really easy to do as long as you have a pointy pen. (Don't worry, resetting the H10 doesn't erase your music or other files.) The only other beef I have with the H10 is the scroll speed - I wish it would go faster. Despite the speed, at least scrolling's easy - just slide your thumb down the touch strip and hold it down.

Like I said, the sound is superb - even with the earbuds that come with the H10 (which, by the way, are Sennheiser which produce awesome quality sound). The menus are easy to navigate as well. Because of extra features like the FM tuner, built in recorder, SRS WOW, and compatibility with Yahoo! Music Unlimited, the iriver H10 is the best MP3 player on the market in my opinion.

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Good player if you are willing to do some...

Strengths: Small, affordable ($160AR) on Woot, great sound, nice fm tuner, nice color screen.

Weakness: WM Player interface is awful, strange playlist format (can only create playlists through WM Player (see comments for workaround), slow to access playlist directory, cradle required for line-out.

I upgraded from a Dell first generation 15GB Digital Jukebox to this player. I looked around at various large capacity MP3 players and chose this one because it got pretty good reviews and was very affordable.
My biggest complaint about this player is that you have to use WM player to create playlists. I have since found that sourceforge developed a shareware program, Easy H10, to get around this. I have .M3U format playlists for all of my MP3s and was very disappointed when I realized that this player only accepted .PLS files. Easy H10 will convert your .M3U playlists to the H10 required format, and will populate the artist, playlist, and album folders on your player. The ONLY way to live with this player is to connect it to your computer like an external hard drive (press reset, hold down circle button and power button until emergency connect shows...should then show up as another drive on your computer). This is also the mode you use to upgrade the firmware. In this mode, you NEVER have to use Windows Media Player and you can drag any file directly to your player. Even if you don't use Easy H10 to populate the folders on your drive, you can access any file you added to your player through the player's browser. This also makes it much easier to delete unwanted files from the player, since you can't delete files from it directly (another small complaint).
Overall, it’s not a bad player for the money if you don't mind a few extra steps.

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iRiver H10 20 GB

Strengths: looks great, fairly small, great sound

Weakness: terrible delay between switching songs

The first thing you should do when you get this player is update the firmware immediately. Most of the issues people have had with this player have been resolved in the newer firmware releases.

The player has great sound quality and has good battery life. Definately the best bang for your buck mp3 player on the market. The one issue that I have is that it takes a few seconds to change tracks. Hopefully iriver will put in hard drives with faster access times in the future. All in all I think this is a great player especially for those on a tight budget.

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Very Nice, Attractive Design

Strengths: Plenty of storage for most, FM tuner, can view photos while listening to music, simple, understandable controls

Weakness: Not many accessories yet, currently can't use for mass storage, uses Windows Media Player 10 for transfers, battery not apparently user replaceable.

I like this player very much, it has all I want but for the lack of a user replaceable battery and not being able to use for mass storage - I have sent an email to Tech Support asking about future firmware updates and possible added capabilities, but have not heard back yet. Wondering if I should have waited for the Cowon iAudio X5 for more features at the same price.

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Hot player!

Strengths: Beautiful; high-capacity.

Weakness: Controls not intuitive.

I got an incredible deal on this player, so that may color my opinion, but this is the iPod killer! The FM tuner just truly seals the deal. Go for it.

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Very happy with it

Strengths: Nice Screen, High capacity,

Weakness: None

This is my first hard drive based mp3 player, and I did a lot of research into it ahead of time. I needed a high capacity device with FM tuner and voice recording. It definately exceeds my expectations. The battery life has been amazing, the large number features are mind blowing. The controls are intuitive and easy to learn, transfer rate and charge time are both fast. All in all, it's a perfect player.

I have had mine for nearly 1 month and am very pleased.

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Iriver H10 20GB MP3 Player - Remix Blue (20 Internal...

Strengths: A Little Cheaper Than The New Ipod Video & fm radio

Weakness: Wish They Have A Bigger Hard Drive

I Brought this drive from best buy $249.00 but, using coupons I paid $180.00 plus tax so came to to $202.00 using this drive for about 3 days and I love it and has a fm radio cheaper than the new ipod video but wish they made one with a bigger hard drive

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ReviewGist for iRiver H10 (5 GB, 1200 Songs) MP3 Player

Audio is Good according to 7 MP3 Player experts. -- "excellent audio recording"-pcmag.com -- "Audio performance with or without equalization is clean, with no sign of harmonic distortion until you push the volume control beyond 35 (out of 40 steps)."-pcmag.com -- "It doesnt get overly loud, but its 18mW output is good enough to drive big phones."-reviews.cnet.com Read more to find expert opinions...

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iRiver H10

Testseek.com has collected 26 expert reviews for iRiver H10 and the average expert rating is 76 of 100. The average score reflects the expert community’s view on this product. Click below and use Testseek.com to see all ratings, product awards and conclusions.

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iRiver H10 20GB

IRiver H10 20GB receives an overall TopTenREVIEWS score of 2.24 out of 4.00. It is ranked the #53 hard drive MP3 player of all time. The overall rating represents an intelligent balance of features, value as a function of price to features, and a summary of reviews from a variety of sources. The TopTen REVIEWS' formula gives a picture of important consumer features, market value, and a product's...

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