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Iriver U15 L-Player 8GB MP3/MP4 Player - Black | 
 enlarge | Brand: iRiver
Category: CE
Buy New: £78.90
New (4) from £78.90
Rating:  1 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Display Size: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 2.4 x 1.7 x 0.5
nv: AC Power Adapter Supplied: No
Amplifier: 17mW(R) + 17mW(L) at max volume
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Audio Output Connections: 3.5mm Jack
Audio Recording: Yes
Backlit Display: Yes
Battery Life: Standby > 200 hrs; Audio Connection : 12 hrs ; Voice Connection(Headset/Handsfree) :12 hrs
Bluetooth: No
Bookmarking Support: Yes (Text Only)
Built in Clock: No
Built in Speakers: No
Codec Support: MP3 WMA OGG ASF FLAC
Colour LCD Screen: Yes
Copyright Protection System: Yes
DAB Radio: No
MPN: U15-8GB-B
Model: U15-8GB-B
EAN: 8809055010888
Release Date: June 19, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | MPEG4 SP WMV9 SP XVID SP Video file support | | • | 30fps video playAlbum art support | | • | Supports MP3 WMA OGG ASF FLAC Audio file support | | • | Supports SRS WOW HD sound | | • | Supports jpg gif bmp png files |
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Product Description
L-Player Live Music L-Player is iRiver s new portable media player with video incredible sound quality (including new lossless FLAC support) minimalist design featuring iRivers superb user-friendly D*Click interface and is equally at home transfering files from a PC or a Mac! Upgraded LCD display The L-Player features an enhanced 50.8mm TFT LCD display with a wide viewing angle. It can be used to display album art in glorious full colour along with display of photos so lifelike you ll think you re there! Live performance audio reproduction Size is no barrier when it comes to audio quality. The L-Player enjoys SRS WOW HD Sound and the ability to play lossless audio. Of course it s compatible with the popular MP3 & WMA audio codecs as well. The Headphone output is one of the most powerful on the market giving you a live experience in a tiny player. It also supports OGG levels 1 10 the choice of the audio enthusiast for compression effectiveness with incredible audio quality. Please note: The L Player Transparent Speaker Dock shown is an optional accessory. Details of this item can be found by clicking here. The L Player Transparent Speaker Dock is available with 20% off when purchased along with the L Player. Please see the Exclusive Offers below. Express yourself anytime anywhere The L-Player is truly tiny perhaps the most compact example of the fully-featured MP3/MP4 player in existence. Its looks are minimalist and attractive you can even wear it as jewellery! Feel the control with the touch of D*Click D*Click has been developed by iRiver over several years to offer the simplicity of control of a re-configurable touch interface combined with the tactility and response of physical buttons. The screen is actually a big rocker switch which operates in four directions each direction s function is slightly different depending on which screen you re controlling. The clever part is the logical layout which means with very little use you can
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| Customer Reviews:
Impressive but slightly flawed October 29, 2008
Ivor Gotone (Cambridge, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I wanted a not-too-expensive MP3 player that played a range of file formats, had decent sound quality and looked cool. The L Player certainly meets those expectations. It's very cleverly designed so that the screen operates as a four-way rocker switch that allows you to navigate the various menus. The only other switches on the unit are tiny power and volume bumps on the lower edge (don't buy this if you have really fat fingers!) and a slide switch for "hold" on the back. The appearance is really minimalist and the construction makes the screen pretty much the same size as the housing. The screen is amazing. The resolution and refresh rate are superb. You'll be amazed by the quality of the sample video included. Also by the static pictures - the quality of the image is breathtakingly good. I haven't tried putting my own video on there yet, but I've added pictures from my library and again, the quality is outstanding. I have downloaded various music formats, mostly lossless WMA files, and the reproduction of modern music is fantastic. The earphones don't seem to have the dynamic capability to match what the unit can produce though, and I'll be buying some Sennheiser earphones, or something similar. I read somewhere that battery life was poor (12 hours apparently) but I haven't found this to be problematic. The player also includes the ability to record memos and has a built in FM radio. If you're on the move, the radio isn't of much use, but it's OK around the house.
On the down-side, the iRiver Plus 3 software supplied with the player is really cumbersome to use and very, very slow. I synched the music I wanted using WMP which was easy enough, but surprisingly, the album art didn't come across. I had to add this manually, album by album using the awful Plus 3 software. It took a long, long time and it was really difficult to determine how to do it. That was probably the worst thing about the entire experience. Another negative is finding music. There is no search facility as such, you have to browse through music files sequentially - but here's the really annoying part: you can't re-order files. They appear in the order you added them to the device. This is seriously annoying and hopefully something a future firmware update will resolve. In the meantime, I use playlists and genres to find the files I want.
All in all, for just under eighty quid, and with 8Gb of storage, I think this is a fantastic piece of kit and better in many ways than my daughter's iPod nano.
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