Joybee is marvelous (Benq Joybee 120 128 MB)

Member Name: kevinsmbuk

Product:	Benq Joybee 120 128 MB
Date:	05/01/04 (684 review reads)
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Advantages: The player size smallest i seen! Has backlight display!, clear Quality sound, providing you have good headphones!, Extremely well equipped (accesories)

Disadvantages: Slight distortion at higher volumes but not much :-)

A few days ago i did not know whether to buy this little device or not, many proclaimed that it was fantastic, but if you are like me and dont always believe reviewers then this is for you. I assure you i am a genuine reviewer and i can honestly say that the joybee is fantastic. The options on it are great,

Fm radio, computer active magazine said it took 5 minutes to scan through the whole FM frequency (Quote: "The search facility is incredibly slow - it took almost five minutes to cycle through the whole FM frequency"),

Well computer active it took me less than 2 minutes so i dont know what you were doing wrong!

You do have the option of recording live radio but to be honest the quality it comes out in is not that good so not really worth it, unless you are recording speech.

The Voice recorder is pretty good as of course all you will be doing is recording voice, so the quality does not have to be perfect but it is actually ok, slightly better than radio recording, good enough.

The mp3 player itsself is of high build qualtiy Well done BenQ!, check for measurements of the device around as they pop up on almost any site when searched for. But the joybee 120 is absoulely (almost ridicously) small! it is literally smaller than a small matchbox. I have showed some of my freinds and work collegues and they cant beleive it, they are pretty computer literate aswell!

The weight of the device is superb aswell, i wouldnt say that it weighs as much as a matchbox but it is very light on the trouser pocket!.

I would like to clear that the radio is not contained within the headphones it is in the device. Unlike some other 'cheaper' devices on the market. I cant believe how they fit it all in!

There are three colours (orange, silver, green) I got the orange version iam extremely pleased with it, it does look a bit too bright on the websites but actually it is rather pretty when you are ho
lding it and i have had no comments about it. Word of advice buy new earphones though, as always with almost every MP3 player priced at £100 you do get the cheap crappy earphones and anyone in their right mind would change them, they use a cheaper method of sound distubution rather than makes like sony that use a special magnet to project quality sound.

Oh and (sorry computer active) but, they said "In playback mode, for example, you need three button presses just to alter the volume or activate the 'hold' feature" which is actually true, but it does not cause any problems at all when needing to change volume, you simply hit menu the play (to select volume) then use the next track/ previous track buttons to change it then hit play again to confirm and then menu to return to info display. Sounds hard doesnt it?, well no it is actually very easy, i got used to it on the first day of using it!

My advice is buy it from dabs.co.uk £95 inc delivery :-), i think that 18/20 people would be pleased with the device the only let down is the max size version you can get is 256mb, shame...

The only let down i can say on this device is... WE WANT A TEN GIG VERSION!, erm... i think i might be pushing it... it is small and all. :-)

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