Memorex finally goes color with MMP8640 4GB DAP

Apple, Creative, Microsoft, SanDisk, and Sony would like to officially welcome Memorex into the 21st Century, as the jack-of-all trades manufacturer has finally discovered that monochrome displays are totally played, introducing its first digital audio player to feature a color screen. The MMP8640, as it's known, joins the 2GB MMP8575, 1GB MMP8565, and 512MB MMP3774, but trumps all of these models with its 4GB capacity and 1.8-inch QCIF+ screen capable of displaying JPEGs and playing back MPEG-4 content in either landscape or portrait mode. Also on board are LED lighting to give the device six different themes, one-touch recording for dictation or capturing content from the FM tuner, and 100 pre-loaded songs that you'll have to delete. The claimed 20-hours of battery life for tunes sounds pretty decent, but you'd better plug in for watching movies, because that number plunges to a mere two hours when playing video content. Although Memorex states that these are stocked at Target, we couldn't find it on the retail monster's site, and no other pricing or release information has been given.

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[Firebird @ May 14th 2007 6:21AM]

I have to say, for some reason, I'm really loving the giant play button.

[junc @ May 14th 2007 9:37AM]

The 4GB one was around $120.00 at Target yesterday.

[Gadgetguy @ May 14th 2007 9:26PM]

IF ITS FREE THAN I AM INTERESTED

[jude bach @ May 14th 2007 9:40PM]

disney.memorexelectronics.com

[Katarzyna @ May 18th 2007 6:41AM]

Hi Sir,
Am very much interested in purchasing this item.Kindly,Mail the total cost of the item.Mail me [e-mail]
Katarzyna.

[cory @ Jun 15th 2007 12:46PM]

O.k i need little help.. so i just bought one of these, plugged it in to computer (worked fine) put some music on it.. still played and worked fine then put "lock" on and fel asleep now it was like froze and it now wont turn on or repond if i plug it into my computer :( is this common does any one know how to fix? thanks

[zeroblast X @ Jun 27th 2007 2:28PM]

I bought the 4G Memorex MMP8640. At first i was excited because of the 4gigs of space and its size. But it soon went all downhill.

1) When i would download either a video or record my voice, a funky error would come up in the playlist and if you accidentally selected it to play, the player would freeze up. I couldnt delete the error to save my life. I had to do an entire system wipe which erased ALL OF MY MUSIC. I did that 3 times.
2) If you breathed on this player wrong it would freeze up. In all seriousness i had to press the reset button on this player at least 8 times in the 2 weeks that i owned it.
3) The buttons feel loose and the control panel looks crooked. I realized it looks crooked because the factory design was painted on crooked. Very tacky.
4) The kicker!! At exactly 2 weeks the HOLD button on top of the player got stuck in the hold position. The plastic external switch came loose from the internal switch and i was no longer able to power the player on. Now I know you may ask how rough I was with this gadget but trust me, it lived better than I did. Thank goodness for purchase returns.

This player has a couple of good features. I like being able to change the color, change the panorama, its f/w functionality, and the price. This Mp3 player will sell fast because of the price. I mean 4gigs for 119.99……. do the math. In fact I havent seen it stocked on Targets shelves for about 2 months because its selling out quick. So kudos to Memorex. I have to say though, unless i bought the one MP3 player that fell into the .001% product failure window, you should invest in another player. I know this was long but hey……im passionate about electronics.

Peace

[Sirocco @ Jun 28th 2007 11:20PM]

Resist the urge to buy this. It's very plasticky and the fonts are too small to read.

[Raziel @ Jul 15th 2007 9:24PM]

WTF is a boot error it wont turn on i reseted an still fucking boot error wtf! this unit sucks bad ass i just bought it an hour ago

[Adam @ Jul 16th 2007 3:00PM]

Firmware has a bug where tracks are played in reverse track order. IE: an album with 8 tracks will get track 8 played first, 7 next, then 6, etc. There's no way to fix the reversed playback order. I verified that I have the latest and greatest firmware flashed.