http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/ Engadget Comments for iriver E100 hands-on http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/Apr 4th 2008 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/]]>Apr 4th 2008 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/Apr 4th 2008 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/Apr 4th 2008 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/Apr 4th 2008 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/you think they could fit it in that big box.]]>Apr 4th 2008 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/Apr 5th 2008 6:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/
You have to wonder what the hell companies are thinking to come out with a device with such a backward interface in 2008. After the iPod, the iPod Touch, even the P2, going to a device with an ancient four way arrow pad as the sole interface is just not going to cut it in the modern marketplace in America. I can't imagine it doing well abroad, where there are even more choices.]]>Apr 4th 2008 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/
Outside of a supposed need to do away with physical controls because some other companies did so on certain models, why would you assume this?]]>Apr 4th 2008 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/Apr 4th 2008 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/Apr 4th 2008 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/Apr 5th 2008 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/Apr 5th 2008 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/Pictures > Texts > FM Radio > Recordings > File Manager > Settings > Music > > Pictures

initial menu is the type of menu that would drive me nuts.

Here we have a big enough screen that can show multiple items at once which you can get to with a few QUICK clicks, but instead we have one item and huge icon showing at a time, and you only know what you get once you go through them all rather than a quick glance and getting to it far more quickly with rapid clicks.

As far as I'm concerned, on paper at least, FLAC http://flac.sourceforge.net and Ogg Vorbis support http://www.vorbis.com are the real unique-ish aspects of the E100, along with the removable flash card for more storage.]]>Apr 5th 2008 1:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/click click click
CLICK CLICK CLICK
That is unforgivable, especially from such an ugly device.]]>Apr 16th 2008 1:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/
I actually have the device and it's great. Firmware 1.04 removes all the nags you'll initially have with the device, like unresponsive menus, random crashes and overall crapiness.
There are still some things to iron out, like the inability to change music track while viewing pictures or reading e-books. They SHOULD make it so if you hold down the +/- volume keys for a while, it changes track back/forward. Holding down this key is useless normally, since rapidly tapping the +/- buttons is much quicker than holding down the button to adjust the volume.
Also, there's no way to stop the device's screen turning off. And when the screen goes off, you have to press a key to turn the screen back on... Then you have to press the same button to make the normal functionality of the key work. It should continue to do the action instead of turning every key into a 'wake up' button.

Not a perfect device, I'll admit. It's maybe a bit bigger than it should have been, the speakers aren't quite as loud as you'd want, the SD Micro memory expansion isn't integrateable... Which is a bad saddening but hopefully something iriver will fix in a future firmware. But I like the device, it has fairly good battery mileage, easy to use and overall a solid device. Make of it what you will, but use it before you start knocking it, it's a nice device.]]>Apr 5th 2008 6:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/Apr 5th 2008 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/Apr 5th 2008 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/04/iriver-e100-hands-on/Apr 5th 2008 3:48PM