iriver E10 (6GB)

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Performance
Despite the claimed 32-hour playback, our tests using 240MB of MP3 files playing on a loop had the E10 hitting 23 hours 40 minutes instead. But this is a showing that places the E10 on the upper strata of MP3 players when it comes down to battery life.

	Video looks okay here

While we have misgivings over the use of a proprietary data cable, the swooping transfer speeds of the E10 make for fair compensation. At 7.27MB per second using Windows Explorer drag-and-drop and 5.21MB per second using the iriver plus software, the E10 is blazingly fast.

The screen on the E10 is a rather ungenerous 1.5 inches. While it worked well for pictures and general navigation, the 128 x 128-pixel screen was not conducive for videos with a 4:3 aspect ratio. We experienced letterboxing on the top and bottom of the video which meant the video would be displayed on less than the full screen real estate. Though sharp, the E10 had slight problems displaying large expanses of the same hues, resulting in mild pixilation in rapid action scenes.

We auditioned the E10 with the new Creative Zen Aurvana earphones. Bass notes on Massive Attack's Angel were tight without overt distortion. We rather liked how Beverly Craven sounded on the E10; it was rich with adequate emphasis on the mids.

The FM autoscan function was excellent. It captured all the radio stations in our test locations. However, we experienced mild audio distortion with two of the major radio stations.

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