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Belkin Media Reader for iPod with Dock Connector

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• Reviewed by: dhishi

  Updated: 11-07-05

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

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  Strengths: Convenient for downloading pictures from cards. Saves Ipod batteries. Do not need camera to be attached. Saves money by reusing the same card.

  Weaknesses: Not compatible to all media. Uses independent batteries

  Overall Evaluation: Good device to free up the cards when on vacation. I use Compact flash and SD cards and this device does it for me. Convenient and easy to use ( plug and play ). Transfer speeds can be slow but it does the job decently. When visiting my family, I took their cards and slot it in directly and I could download straight to my Ipod. This is excellent for these holidays.

• Reviewed by: WaltR

  Updated: 10-10-05

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:8 Days

  Strengths: Smoothly transfers photos into iPod from supported media, saves the camera battery, you can keep shooting while files transfer, doesn't use the iPod's battery, works with most iPods with Dock

  Weaknesses: Limited media support, could be smaller and file transfers could be faster

  Overall Evaluation: I definitely consider this is the best solution for transferring photos to your iPod from your digital camera if your camera's media is supported. I prefer the idea of a card reader for the iPod to the camera docks available, since if frees up the camera for additional shooting and you don't drain the camera battery during file transfers. Since it has its own batteries and doesn't run off the iPod battery, you can transfer more photos between recharges. I was able to use it without the instructions and in less than a minute, photos were downloading to my iPod Photo, with progress displayed including postage stamps as the files downloaded. File transfer could be faster, but doesn't seem any slower than the X-Drive I bought 3 years and based on the complaints I've read of slow transfer rates for all the photo importing devices for the iPod, I believe the bottleneck is the iPod itself. In any event, it's fast enough to suit my needs.

• Reviewed by: zhouwq

  Updated: 09-15-05

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:3 Days

  Strengths: easy for storage the pics without larger amount cf or other media card

  Weaknesses: eat most of power of ipod

  Overall Evaluation: I buy it for 4 days. Before I get it , I am very afraid because I hear it is a high compatible kit that only some digital camera can use it. My digital is canon s5o, my ipod is 60g photo. So I want to try to test it if it can be used for me. When I connect it with ipod, it is ok to transfer pic from cf card to ipod. But it need much more power that can eat a full capacity power of ipod per transfer 200 pics. It is the largest problem.

• Reviewed by: aquabatsrdumb

  Updated: 09-21-04

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

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  Strengths: portable, able to transfer pictures and movie files, doesn't drain too much power on AAA batteries

  Weaknesses: needs 4 AAA batteries, slow, the lid that covers the batter casing breaks easy, only reads certain media cards

  Overall Evaluation: this is a pretty good product..i took this product on vacation with me and did what it was suppost to do....i took over 1500 pics and video files as well..iwas happy with this product...the only thing i didnt really like was the fact that the batter lid broke and now is held together with a rubber band....hahahah

• Reviewed by: bmater

  Updated: 09-08-04

  Overall Rating: 1 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:30 Days

  Strengths: portable

  Weaknesses: drains ipod battery

  Overall Evaluation: I was excited about the prospect of not having to lug around a laptop for photo shoots. But the memory reader goes so slow it drains the iPod battery down after only 3-4 card transfers (and I have the new 40GB version). Typically via a firewire card reader, a 256MB flash card will transfer in 25 seconds. The iPod reader takes nearly 5 minutes, spinning the hard drive the whole time. You can watch the battery level drop as it slowly copies. Belkin's support blames the iPod's firmware. But the the iPod is firewire fast. Whatever the deal, Belkin should know better and not advertise getting "thousands of photos"; I could barely transfer 300 6MP photos before the battery was dead. You'd be far better off buying more memory cards and not risk long term damage of the iPod's battery life with such heavy use.

• Reviewed by: Nukemfilm

  Updated: 07-14-04

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:3 Days

  Strengths: Belkin Quality, Design

  Weaknesses: It could be smaller.

  Overall Evaluation: This is an excellent alternative to dragging around your portable computer and/or buying more expensive media cards. Simply download your pics from your media card reader and start shooting again. However, I don't understand why it couldn't be smaller. The card reader that came with my card to connect to my computers firewire port is a third of the size of the Belkin Media card reader. Maybe it has some special hardware that the iPod needs to import the pics from the card?

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