Ollo theKube (2GB)

By Kelvin Low, CNET Asia
Jul 1, 2009

Do you remember the first few MP3 players on the market? These would have been screen-less, with basic features that cost an arm and a leg. What you also got was a player that maxed out at 32MB capacity instead of the monstrous 32GB, touchscreen, Wi-Fi enabled, Bluetooth-capable, feature-loaded models we have today.

Then we heard news of theKube. Manufactured by Singapore-based Ollo Technologies, it is essentially a screen-less, microSD card-based music player that goes for only S$34.90 (US$25.07). With much pain, we put aside our modern players aside and took a look at what theKube has to offer.

Design

There are five colors to choose from and only three buttons to control all the player's functions. At the top of the unit is an On/Off slider switch. The bottom contains the microSD/SDHC card slot, a mini-USB port and headphone port.

The play/pause button switches the playback mode between sequence or shuffle if the user holds it down when the music is paused. The forward button increases the volume when held down, and the back button does the opposite.

Features

The USB port is only for charging the player. The card slot only reads the files off the microSD card for playback and does not act as a card reader. To put music on the player, Ollo has included a USB microSD/SDHC card reader. Battery life is rated at 6 hours and takes about an hour to fully recharge.

Quite interestingly, we found MIDI file support on top of the more usual MP3, WMA, WAV and PCM formats. What's even more interesting is that this wee player accepts up to 32GB microSDHC cards.

Tags: Player, MP3 Player, mini-USB, microSD Card, MP3

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