5000 songs, so little time! (Archos Gmini 220 20 GB)

Member Name: E126268

Product:	Archos Gmini 220 20 GB
Date:	08/02/05 (242 review reads)
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Advantages: A great gadget

Disadvantages: Can only listen to one track

This gadget is really just like a mini computer. There are icons featured on the LCD screen for you to easily navigate your way around the gadget.

The G-Mini is not really that small though. Even though it says it is portable, this is still bigger than a phone and bigger than most MP3 players you will find these days that come in little sticks.

The memory space avaiable is 20GB which means you can hold up to 5000 songs , but that all depends on the length, size and quality of the tracks you want on it. Apart from MP3's you are able to store photos but only able to view them in greyscale which can put people off since there are now coloured camera phones.

I managed to pay £199.00 for this phone after shopping around. I would highly advise you do this because I have seen it for prices up to £249!!

Surprisingly, this little thing is very light - I would say it is even lighter than my phone!

Of course with an MP3 player, you need the software for your computer and this one comes with the best - MusicMatch Jukebox Plus. I did own another MP3 player when I was younger which only had 64KB of space (enough for 8 songs!!) and it came with the original MusicMatch Jukebox. I'm very glad I have this again because it is easy to navigate your way around, easy to install and more importantly, easy to Uninstall! The Jukebox easily converts your Wav. etc. tracks into MP3 format so it is easy to listen to the songs.

Compared to my old MP3 player (which was unbranded) this has the ultra-fast USB 2 interface meaning I can upload songs to it in seconds! If you think about it, you can store 500 albums on to this little baby whcih can seem a little pointless at times since you are only able to listen to one song at a time!

System requirements: You do need Windows 98 or above with 64 MB RAM - recmmended. With that you obviously need to have a CD-ROM drive to install the software and this player uses a USB port rather than my old one which needed a LPPT (Printer port).

In the packaging you will receive the player, a USB cable, adapter, rechargable battery, audio cable, headphones, the MM Jukebox software and a manual which is very easy to understand so you should have no problems.

The battery normally lasts 100 songs depending on how much you play with the LCD screen icons, etc. Not bad!

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