Evergreen's $8.50 DN-2000 MP3 player
By Thomas Ricker 
posted April 7th 2006 8:30AM
posted April 7th 2006 8:30AM
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Seems like an ideal product. People with digital camera's have the memory cards any ways. And it is a nice gimick to give away to friends and customers.
I even like the look of this mp3 player.
Yeah Engadget, to hell with those who can't afford an iPod! Muahahaha!
Seriously though, I remember when cheap cassette "walkman" players could be had on street corners for $10, it's about time mp3 players started dropping in price as well.
Sounds great. Not everyone are tech-snobs like yourselves you know. Now even _poor_ people can listen to digital music.
Whatever next? Clean drinking water for the world's population? Gawd save our souls.
This is the exact same player as the Sitecom
MP310 which I bought at the beginning of last
year. Back then I paid 35 euro's for it and
it was utter crap. Button didn't function
correctly.. next was stop etc etc..
Sounded good, but it was a waist of those 35
euro's. Here's a pic of the Sitecom.
http://www.consumax.nl/catalog/images/sitecom-mp310.jpg
This has been out in the US for months... I got one in silver from Surplus computers for $15 It dosent have a resume feature so every time you start it up it plays the first mp3 on the list. If you bump it, it'll momentarily lose contact with the sd card and will start again from the begining. It does make for a fasd reader that can play Mp3's in a pinch....
This thing has been available from ledshoppe.com for 15$ for at least 3 months, I ordered one a while back, and surprisingly it didn't have horrible sound quality, until i dropped it onto the sidewalk, and it broke completely. guess i will be moving up to a Joybee 130 now...
Shame on you Engadget. I bought one of these from Proporta at least 6 months ago and I was aware of them for 6 months before that. They are cheap and they do the job - plain and simple.
This would be interesting if you could buy it with a new album release on it.
Or, maybe not.
Nevermind.
If its for Japan, why are you reporting the price in USD? Report it in sushi, or whatever currency used there. HAhahaha
Ahhh, a cheap way to shut up my nephew who keeps asking for an iPod. Hey, the kid breaks everything!
#4-6 I demand inside shots of both sides of the pcb, stat!
Finally! The cost vs. value curve of MP3 players has been completely out of whack from the get-go. Flas players have been priced like they were major components, but their consumer value is more along
the lines of something you would pull out of a cereal box. I'm looking forward to pulling one of these out of a box of Fr00t L00ps in a year or two (battery and SD card not included).
While this thing looks like crap, I've always been interested in mp3 players that had no storage of their own and just let me use my own media. The best example I have of this is my cheap-ass Orbit portable DVD player, which is actually a USB host and will play mp3's and divx (and NES games) off of usb storage compliant devices. (Sometimes cheap is quality.)
But that's really big to be carrying around, and its battery life is appropriate for a DVD player, not an MP3 player. Anyone seen anything with a form factor like this cheap thing but with a USB port instead of an SD slot?
I want one. I don't like the idea of my bringing my HD mp3-player with me when i'm jogging. It's cheap, small and I would feel bad when I break it
I bought one a year ago off ebay from china All I had to do was pay $9 for shipping. I have been using it at the gym with an old sd card works great resume feature works until you pull the battery out. Just purchased a new 1 GB sd card for 19$ all I can say is it works I like it more than my buddy's shuffle and I paid a fraction of what he did.
Looks like a nice design, and a great price.. not bad, actually.
Diddo, #11
This is the perfect addition to the motorcycle... and if it gets lost/stolen/broken... I'll just get another. Exactly what I've been looking for!
#10: "But that's really big to be carrying around, and its battery life is appropriate for a DVD player, not an MP3 player. Anyone seen anything with a form factor like this cheap thing but with a USB port instead of an SD slot?"
sandisk had a lovely device called the mp3 companion. the problems though are it was 35 when it was available, and only worked with cruzer micro thumb drives. they no longer sell this item, and ive seen it for 75 on ebay at one time, a perk is it does have a screen ion the device, and a nice form factor.
perhaps a new UN initiative...OMP3PC
I'd rather the thing was a little bigger and the SD card was completely hidden. How are you supposed to put that in your pocket with the SD card sticking out the side?
Who cares if it doesn't work well the way it is now, for some reason I'm hearing HACKING in my left ear...
Hey seems to be the new apple product- as usefull as the ipod shuffle, black, smaller and cheaper! must have this ....
im seeing a hacked NES controller in my future. ( i know its been done before, but this one is cheap enough to give it a whirl).
i just hope it will support that 2gb sd card i got comin in the mail..
I've seen these on eBay for a long time here. I almost thought of buying one, but didn't want to have to get a memory card. I had a 1GB SD card, but that's for my digital camera and nothing else.
The iPod Nano sells for what $149 in stores for 1GB?! If I could get a bunch of these for the price stated and a 1GB SD card for $29, I know an avenue I could rebadge them and sell for a good profit. I'd probably just sell them for materials + $10 labor myself though.
Why so negative?
Looks awesome. A lot of people have SD cards from various devices these days, why not let them use them to play music?
Good battery life, no worries if you break it. Sounds great.
Re: Disposable mp3 players
Actually, I was in the airport (EWR) a few days ago and found some disposable mp3 players already. They were used for audio books. The package had some headphones and a little player not unlike the one pictured. The one I looked at had about 20 hours of content though I don't remember how long the battery lasted. Cost about $15 IIRC. They had about 20 different "books" to choose from. Not expandable (at least as far as I could tell without buying one and opening it up) and only one book per device.
Borders is already selling a device that plays just one book for about $50. It's very wasteful of a good MP3 player that could be used to play all sorts of content. I like this device from Japan - sign me up for one.
It's about usability, durability, and ultimately quality. When you can't sell those things, you sell price. And with a price this low, do you really think those sweatshop workers expended any effort at QC? C'mon guys. You get what you pay for, because the workers sure didn't.
Hmmm, might be good for the OMP3PPC (One MP3 Player Per Child) if you could add a mini hand crank and make it John Deere green.
push2flush:
That sounds like a fun mod! Post some pictures when you're done.
Does anyone know where I could buy some of these?! I'm in the USA. I'd want them all black like the one pictured, and as cheap or close to the $8.50 specified.
there's a cloud of smug building over engadget
#21/push2flush
The Akihabara story says it'll "support up to 1GB SD card"
Wouldn't hold your breath :(
"30. #21/push2flush
The Akihabara story says it'll "support up to 1GB SD card"
Wouldn't hold your breath :( "
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ill sure as abraham try it.
I have had one of these for about a year now....I bought it on Ebay, sold as a generic SD card mp3 player. I paid like $20 for it, but I thought it was a good deal, can be used as a SD reader for a computer too. I personally think if you don't need the song title displayed, go with this. The sound is loud enough, battery life is long enough, and its pretty small too.
#31: SD cards have an onboard memory controller, there's no reason it shouldn't be able to support higher than 1gb. Since the whole thing is translated from Japanese I'm going to assume something got lost there.
Thats not disposable. It's cheap and decent. Not everyone can throw 200$ for an ipod these days.
Where do you buy a 19$ 1 GB SD card these days?
It's not disposable until it comes in a Happy Meal or a cereal box.
hey, buzz off will you ? you dont like it dont look at it. why do you think you are the centre of the universe, and everything is made for you? there are 4 wheelers rather large and got tillers behind these stupid looking cars, the seating comfort isnt good, and people call them tractors - so? these arent meant for you either in case you want complain abt them! there are sections of society who wouldnt mind a cheap mp3 players. they probably will save for 2 months and buy them. college and school kids who can buy an mp3 player out of thier pocket money. so whats with crappy japanese, and crappy products diatribe ?
It looks like the SD card is hidden, the image on the picture above shows where is is inserted but I think they were trying to convey that it doesn't stick out by making the SD card transparent.
iCrap I mean iRock makes one with 128MB you can get it here:
http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__iRock_930_MP3ez_128MB_MP3_Player,__12763926
also to those who say iPods are expensive, I don't like iPods but you can get a 1GB nano for $150 at newegg. Link:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16855101448
there is also a fake iPod nano on newegg literally called "Generic" The back of it is shiny like a nano. survay says: "it's craptastic"
Link:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16855104109
well i am all outa links
why doesn't the end key work on my mac?
This is absolutely awesome! First of all, it might either be a spam, or it's a true real deal. This disposable MP3 player might just as well be a good present for friends. I wonder if that 5 hours playback is anywhere long lasting.
For $8.50, I do now have second thoughts that it is kind of a good value for disposable electronic product.
Where can I get it
There are already cheap better sd-card mp3 players. I've found several better deals already(the lowest being $0.99 after a rebate)There are almost always deals there for less than 10 bucks and have lcd screens.go 2 dealnews for some good deals.
Well priced is all I have to say.
I needed a memory stick a couple of months back, and was looking for something to read my camera card ('cause gigabyte memory sticks are a bit expensive). Eventually I found something on eBay with 128mb internal memory, MP3 player, voice recorder, FM tuner (which is crap), and a built-in USB port, with an SD card slot. So now I can put photos back onto my camera, and I have a 1GB memory stick.
But my wonder-device cost a whole 40 euros, so for the lowest price seekers, this device looks promising.
Peter B.
I've brought it for weeks, it works.
The sound quality is awful but still acceptable, roughly equivalent to a poor laptop soundcard. The background noise is high and not corresponding to the volume control, so it's bothersome when you play it in very quiet environments.
Playlist is sorted by the time you copy mp3 files to the SD card, not support files saved in sub directories.
I took a photo of the inside circuit, here it is:
(MTM809 is the controller/decoder, MS6310 is the codec)
http://www2.beareyes.com.cn/jpic/1/2006/04/20060410_174323_1.jpg
I'm intrigued, but is it possible to find one without the internal memory like the iRock model?
Don't see it on the ledshoppe (#6) or computer surplus websites (#5), the Proporta model (#7) is listed at $50, and the iRock rebrand is $25 because of the internal memory. Am I missing something here? Under what name do they appear on Ebay?
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P.S. @ 37 Mandarin
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820208042
Some of these comments are not helpful. Like the guy who says that you can buy an mp3 player on ebay for 99 cents. Hay dude, did you check out the cost of shipping? I guess that's why people post items for 99 cents with $25 shipping - because there are really sharp people like him who only look at the listed price and ignore the shipping cost.
LEDShoppe has the player for $15 shipped. Here is the link:
http://www.ledshoppe.com/Product/com/CA2019.htm
Also, a very similar (though uglier) version appears to be offered at Newegg for $9.00 with free shipping:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16800999352
I ordered one of each to compare. The comments on the Newegg site did not sound good - one guy saying it won't play high bit rate mp3s. The reviews of the evergreen said the sound was good. Some people on here say there is buzz. I don't know who is right, or whether people are even comparing the same product. Anyway, I'll find out soon enough.
it looks small but cheap.. would rather spend little more money and get a good product.
mp4 Player
The LEDshoppe mp3 player doesn't remember what the last song was playing before turning off. It starts at the 1st song all over again. It does read my play my 60x adata 2gig SD card, however.