iRiver H10 20GB MP3 Player - Remix Blue (20GB Internal Hard Drive)

Reviewed by: qwepoi

Overall: 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.

Reviewed by: Carl_Johnson

Strengths: Good sound, picture capability, excellent value

Weaknesses: Can't delete directly from the player

Overall: 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.

Reviewed by: cukerko

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

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

Overall: 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 off2. 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 Windows7. 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.

Reviewed by: bhayashi

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

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

Overall: 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.

Reviewed by: jingdl

Strengths: Beautiful; high-capacity.

Weaknesses: None

Overall: 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.