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Practical sleek-looking cool player that is slim & light.

Dec 14, 2006

Rating: 8 out of 10 (Excellent)
Pros: OLED screen, lyrics-displaying, direct USB interface, FM, recordings, slim & light-weight.
Cons: Relatively shorter battery life-span of 8hrs and slightly weaker Bass output.
Opinion:
This is a practical full-feature sleek-looking MP3 player that is both light and slim. It comes with an impressive full-band FM tuner that offers 3 sensitvitiy levels and is able to record voice/FM radio clearly in 7 different frequencies.
The 3-color OLED screen, which glitters in darkness, displays lyrics in many different languages. One could easily learn to sing favorite songs (like a Karaoke machine) or learn a foreign language with the vivid lyrics display.
The sound output is good and clear although the Bass output could be stronger. Battery life of 8 hrs (which I presume is a trade-off for its compact-size) is relatively short but is not a problem for people who use computers often as it charges up to 80% in 2 hrs when connected to the USB port.
The ez-Tangent functions very well as a flash-memory data storage drive with its direct-USB interface (unlike most other models which requires a cable), slim-built and large-memory size (mine is a 1GB model) facilitating data transfer between work-place/school's computer and home computer.
This is a wonderful machine to have on any outdoor trips as the 29g machine slids nicely into the jeans pocket and leaves you really hands-free without having to carry pouch, strap or even skin/casing. In fact, most of the time, I forgot I was carrying it in my pocket because it is so light, slim and compact.
At less than US$100, this classy-looking machine and practical machine is certainly a good buy.