IRiver MP3 Player Review

By. Fibriany

Since 2004, when the IRiver H320 was born with its nicely colored screen and good photo support, several IRiver products have come out on the MP3 players' market with slightly different design and improved features.

Those who have tried the IRiver H10 model with a slim case, colour screen and touch stroller must have noticed it is quite a pleasure to operate. Besides, the FM receiver and the high quality audio recording make it competitive. This model includes SRS surround effects as well. The FM is easy to program and operate both in cities and rural areas.

The IRiver T10 running on a single AA battery (which is said to deliver up to 45 hours of playback) offers up to 1 GB of storage. It looks quite attractive and offers good sound quality as well as some extra features such as a voice recorder and an FM tuner.

The IRiver Clix gen 2 offers a lot of features in a great design. The AMOLED screen draws less power from the battery which is a plus. 

The IRiver L Player looks like the IRiver clix but smaller.It is easy to navigate the interface if you get used to its options. Again, the bundles ear buds are rather poor but the player sounds great.

Iriver introduced their first product, the iMP-100, a portable CD player capable of decoding MP3 data files on CDs, on November, 2000. In the number one global market, iriver was quickly displaced by the introduction of Apple's iPod. Founded in Seoul, capital of South Korea, iriver makes portable digital audio players, including USB mass storage, multiple codecs, FM tuners, recording capabilities, and upgradeable firmware. Irivers initially dropped UMS support for several of their flash memory based players, in favor of Microsofts's MTP.

Iriver has developed four models for the portable multimedia player, the audio and video market. They are capable of playing several digital video formats, in addition to playing audio and displaying still images, with two models.

There are several MP3 companies that are interested in designing and developing MP3 players, and are capable of supporting a user's entire music library, while others look to create a player that rivals the number one positioned MP3 player - the iPod. The iriver has three basic systems for people looking for a basic digital music player. The iriver T30 series comes in 512MB (120 songs) and 1GB (250 songs) formats with a 24 hour battery life.

In an even more dedicated effort to appeal to the athletic, "sporty" type, iRiver designed a MP3 player that the user can take to the pool! An MP3 player with a water-proof cover that retails at $99.99 that is just as compact and easy to use as the regular version.