iRiver H10 - The outdoor pursuit and music lovers choice! (Iriver H10 20 GB)

Member Name: Sir Mog

Product:	Iriver H10 20 GB
Date:	04/03/09 (12 review reads)
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Advantages: Highly durable, great sound quality, easy to use, can be operated with one finger whilst in pocket.

Disadvantages: Some may think it not very "Stylish" - I'm not a poser, so not a problem.

I used to own one of these back in 2005/2006 (sometime around then).

It was the most reliable, robust, user friendly mp3 player I have ever owned. And the sound quality was out of this world!

I am very much into my Music, and I am very much into my outdoor exploits, (living on the edge of the Pennine way ensures this). It went mountain climbing, rock climbing, bouldering, hiking, fell running, scree running, rafting, caving and many more adventures with me.

It got dropped countless times sometimes even in water and pools of mud, give it a quick wipe off and shake it a little and sure enough it would still be working.

It was super simple to use with 3 controls doing the main amount of the leg work - back, enter and scroll. And there is no need for anything like iTunes and messing around with silly file formats, just drag and drop and organise however the heck you want, but if you didn't fancy doing that, the free software did it for you, or even Windows Media Player if you felt so compelled, but none of this is actually required.

Transfer speed was pretty decent and only once did I have an issue with the iRiver H10 going a bit crazy on me, I ended up doing a complete reset on it (I found out after that I didn't have to do it the way I did, but it was already a little too late ^^)

Also I just have to add that the sound quality of recordings on this device are incredible, the quality of the recorded sound is next to studio quality!

This little Jukebox is the true music lovers device, in fact most iRiver players are! HP140 is very good too!, I never really used the text or image viewing features on the H10, I was never really bothered about viewing tiny pictures or eBooks. Music all the way for me.

So now here we are in 2009, and I now have a refurbished H10 20gb on order after selling my original H10 many years ago (for more than I purchased it for, even after all the adventures it went on with me), but I have always regretted selling it.

I have been through Creative Zen's, iPod's and even a Zune, none of them lasted through much and none of them were as nice to use, or as nice to listen to as the H10 was. I can't wait until I have it back in my hands!

Summary: If your like usability, reliability and quality rather than overpriced fashion go get a H10!

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