Need to buy MP3 player

[Emil]

Here are the requirements:

1. to use as a pen drive of about 1 GB to carry data.

2. Voice recording very important. Will be mostly used with a cord around the speakers neck.

3. Low cost.

4. MP3 music playback quality not overly important. Should be decent enough.

5. FM radio desirable.

I saw the transcend tsonic 610 on offer at 2200 with ITdepot and the creative MuVo N200 1 GB at 2327 with Sifymall.

The creative advantages are the smaller size, line-in recording. The Transcend has a Li-ion rechargeable built-in while the creative uses AAA.

For me the cost of replacing batterires would be a consideration and therefore the transcend wins out. On the other hand, if someone on TE can tell me first hand if they have used the creative with AAA NiMH or NiCD rechargeables please do let me know your experience. If that is satisfactory then I'll go for the creative.

Please don't take the simplistic view that AAA is AAA and if alkalines work then rechargeables must too. This logic is faulty because rechageables have a 1.2V terminal voltage as against 1.5V for Alkys.

I have not considered the no-name chinese ones because a) I am not sure of their reliability and b) Don't trust the memory capacity rating.

I am willing to change my mind if someone can convince me with personal evidence.

 

[greenhorn]

I've used an MSI Mega player with rechargeable batteries, and it gave about 7~9 hours with an Ni-MH cell. the transcend gives at least 10. but then again, i was on a train once for 3 days, when the transcend ran out of juice, but the MSI was up and running after a battery change ( i usually carry around 3 extra fully charged AAA's

but the LCD display was a power hog though ( i mean the backlighting.. every time the light turned on, the battery would decrease by one block, and recovered only after the light went off )

 

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My friend has a digicam which needs 4 AAA batteries..

He said the rechargeable batteries on AAA were next to Waste...

He charged them for a day and it ran out of juice in half a day.. and not much shooting was done too!

He also tried Sony Rechargeable AAA batteries (which are priced steeply), compared them with cheap Chinese rechargeables, but frankly, he didn't find much of a difference in their performance although there was a vast difference in their pricing!

I'd advice you to go for the Transcend .. Happy Transcend user myself..

This thread might help you decide..

http://www.techenclave.com/forums/transcend-t-sonic-610-mp3-player-71019.html

 

[Emil]

My friend has a digicam which needs 4 AAA batteries..

He said the rechargeable batteries on AAA were next to Waste...

He charged them for a day and it ran out of juice in half a day.. and not much shooting was done too!

He also tried Sony Rechargeable AAA batteries (which are priced steeply), compared them with cheap Chinese rechargeables, but frankly, he didn't find much of a difference in their performance although there was a vast difference in their pricing!

I'd advice you to go for the Transcend .. Happy Transcend user myself..

This thread might help you decide..

http://www.techenclave.com/forums/transcend-t-sonic-610-mp3-player-71019.html

You miss my point. I use a Canon digicam and I happily use AA rechargeables. That's because Canon specification includes NiMH even though the bundle only has Alkys.

In the case of the creative MuVo, their spec only mentions a single AAA cell. This is a possible pitfall because a single NiMH cell has a 1.2V terminal voltage while the Alkaline chemistry delivers 1.5V.

The problem in your friend's case is quite different. I believe he has a cheap (read bad) charger.

BTW thanks for the transcend vote. Is it small enough to hang unobtrusively from the neck?

 

[Emil]

I've used an MSI Mega player with rechargeable batteries, and it gave about 7~9 hours with an Ni-MH cell. the transcend gives at least 10. but then again, i was on a train once for 3 days, when the transcend ran out of juice, but the MSI was up and running after a battery change ( i usually carry around 3 extra fully charged AAA's

but the LCD display was a power hog though ( i mean the backlighting.. every time the light turned on, the battery would decrease by one block, and recovered only after the light went off )

Thanks. Have you any idea how much this player (MSI) costs now? Does it look decent enough for a guy to hang around his neck while giving a speech? Can it be suspended with the microphone upwards while the person is speaking? Does it do decent voice recording? What about line-in?