http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/ Engadget Comments for iriver's E100 reviewed before it hits American soil http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/Mar 15th 2008 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/Mar 15th 2008 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/
Any sound quality woes are pretty much a non-issue, for you'll be curious to try out the SRS WOW HD equaliser. However, you wont ever want to take it off. It's such a wonderful and gorgeous equaliser. Sound quality is amazing compared to anything I've heard before.
Movie playback is nice with both headphones and speakers, the lowest backlight setting allows you to see everything. Picture playback is nice, although I wish I had some way of changing the track I'm on while viewing pictures. Same for eBooks. They include that in a new firmware update and this thing would be more or less perfect.
The iriver plus 3 program also needs a good kick up the arse and given a PROPER English translation. A lot of the help files are gibberish and some parts of it aren't helpful at all. However, since you can just bypass the ip3 with Windows Media Player or just dragging and dropping files onto the device... There's no real fault there.]]>Mar 15th 2008 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/
that is the question!111111]]>Mar 15th 2008 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/Mar 15th 2008 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/
But, being an iRiver DAP, you can be sure that the noise it makes as it blends will be a richer, warmer sound with stronger bass and clearer treble than the noise a blending iPod would make.]]>Mar 15th 2008 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/Mar 16th 2008 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/
Disappointing that the battery is non-removable, but to be expected these days, I guess. I like the fact that the device is Mass-Storage compliant and supports FLAC. No crappy software and near-universal support with no crappy transfer or computer descriptions.

I'd like to take a listen to it someday.

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Teaches me not to post when talking to others!]]>Mar 16th 2008 7:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/Clearly they didn't try very hard on this thing with the no-WiFi and no BT and poor viewing angles and for iriver slightly lower standard of soundquality.
Yeah it has FLAC but that's quickly becoming standard now and yeah it has drag&drop, but that's not enough to lift it from the crowd I think.]]>Mar 17th 2008 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/irivers-e100-reviewed-before-it-hits-american-soil/Apr 5th 2008 6:47PM