MP4 Player Reviews

Sony NWZ-E443K Ultra Portable 4GB Walkman Video MP3 Player With Design-matched Stereo Speakers

Sony NWZ-E443K Ultra Portable 4GB Walkman Video MP3/MP4 Player is a good accessory to have when on the move. Stylish in appearance with a mammoth memory and user friendly features this music player is definitely a front runner. A closer look into its features will throw more light on its utility value.

The user friendly features of the player:

• The gadget has an open format that enables the user to listen to music irrespective to the format it is in. The music files that are playable in this system are WMA (DRM), MP3, AAC-LC and L-PCM. For the videos H264/AVC, MPEG-4 and WMV are the video files that are well supported.
• The transferring system follows the drag-drop-relax system making it all the more effortless in use and operation. The user has to simply drag the files from either Windows Media Player II, i Tunes or from Windows Explorer and drop it into the player.
• 30 hours of non stop music or 6 hours of uninterrupted video play makes sure that one need not hasten to recharge the unit or miss out on any entertainment on the move. The player needs to be charged fully for 2 hours only to enable it with the longest battery life. The user can either makes use of the E-series batteries provided making it portable or the AC adaptor when at home.
• The menus are easy to use and have shortcut menus in the home screen similar to the mobile phones making it effortless to operate and use.
• For UK users, the player supports the downloads of the BBC i Player. That is 400 hundred hours of television and radio week after week making it more enjoyable and variable in choice.
• The walkman can play the role of a personal secretary or personal diary too with its ability to record notes. The gadget effortlessly handles dictation which can be replayed at a later period. Even one’s favourite FM programme can be recorded. The radio is equipped with 30 preset programmes that allow one to enjoy at large a variety of programmes.
• With 4 GB as its memory capacity the gadget ensures that the user is able to enjoy a wide variety of his favourite music and videos. This capacity easily handles about 1000 MP3 files or can store 15 hours of video.

The sound output of the player:

• The player has 3 built-in sound technologies that ensure spectacular sound quality. Clear Stereo prevents audio signal leaks. The Clear Bass ensures that there are no distortions. These three elements make sure that there is no compromise on the sound quality and ensure that it sounds close to a live performance. Furthermore, the Virtual Bass balances the low frequency sounds and the volume between the songs is poised well with the Dynamic Normaliser. In result, these technologies guarantee natural sound making it come close to a live orchestra in one’s own space.
• The player comes with two designed matched stereo speakers. They are equipped with digital linear phase system which ensures that the sound output is corrected and redefines the clarity of the sound.
• The band equaliser menu has heavy, pop, jazz, unique and custom. These help greatly in the way the music can be adjusted for listening according to the song or user.

The Basics:

Attractive and stunning in shiny black colour this player fits into a dimension of 44.6 millimetres in width, 86.8 in height and 9.8 in depth. And with a weight of just about 54 grams the walkman snugly fits into one’s palm or pocket. Sony NWZ-E443K Ultra Portable 4GB Walkman Video MP3/MP4 Player boasts of a two inch bright QVGA colour LCD screen. With 30 frames per second it ensures excellent clarity that result in superior display of album art, photos and sharp videos. The display can switch to wide screen as well and is equipped with back lit display. The photo display mode allows for slide shows. The music play mode has shuffle, repeat and the normal play too. Along with video orientation there are zoom settings that certify enjoyable viewing. The player is well supported for WM-Port, USB and high speed data transfer. It is managed by touch keys that assist in hassle free operation and guidance.

The Accessories:

The player comes with an Ac adaptor and E-series rechargeable batteries. In spite of the presence of the speakers, a pair of Y style cord HDR-E804Y earphones too is provided. A quick start guide is offered for easy initiation to the gadget. Thus this Sony NWZ-E443K 2” LCD Screen MP4 Player definitely is of great utility value and has its shares of striking features that makes it more attractive and alluring.

Sony NWZ-E443K MP4 Player – Technical Specification Table

Creative the global brand was established during 1981 in Singapore. It has created revolution in multimedia and they are famous for the sound blasters. They are successfully innovating technological products that improve and support the life style of the present day. Their range of products includes electronic appliance and the players. The MP3 and MP4 segment offers quite a many model with different features and design. The unique designs like the mosaic, stone has seen a great welcome among its customers. The following is the review of Creative Zen Style 300 MP3/MP4 Player.

Features Overview:

This hands on model is sleek and stylish. The bold design, easy to access button and the high quality screen makes it an enriched model. The distinctive and vibrant features of Creative Zen Style 300 4GB/8GB MP3/MP4 Player are as follows.

• Impressive design with the curved edges, stylish panel, compact and sleek is a striking model to go with.
• It comes with the built-in speaker and hence it can be shared with more people and the powerful speaker makes it an impressive one.
• It functions to give a playback of audio and video, let you to enjoy the photos in the preferred slide show even with the music background.
• This model allows simply dragging and dropping the files from the computer to the player in just the move of the fingers.
• The light weight construction makes it easy to carry around and along with the long battery power it makes it easy to use in travel.
• The functions of the FM radio and the voice recording make it convenience for the user to have it multi functional.
• The functions like the personal organiser, alarm clock and the calendar gives you to option to have it more personal. The storage of contacts makes the device a multi use product.

Display and size:

This model takes the dimension of 79.5 x 40 x 13.6 mm to be called a sleek model and it weighs mere 44 grams that can be just added in the pockets without the feel of the weight. The display screen belongs to the type 64k colour TFT LCD, 128 x 160 pixels and it measures in size 1.8”. This model is available in the capacity of about 4GB and 8GB. It means that the device can store about 1000 MP3 files in case of 4 GB and with the 8GB it doubles.

Power and supported formats:

This Creative Zen Style 300 MP3 Video Player model comes with the built-in Li-ion battery. The battery gets charged either by the mains or through the USB. On its full charge it gives a continuous audio playback for 32 hours and the video playback goes for about 4 hours. This is a qualifying feature for travel purpose. The various supported file formats are MP3, WMA, WAV, Audible 4, JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG and TIFF for the audio and the image playback.

Miscellaneous:

With the 8 preset equalizer and the 5 band custom the combination are plenty to choose. It suits the preference of the user and a particular file can be enjoyed with different effects each time. Creative Zen Style 300 1.8″ TFT LCD Screen MP3 and MP4 Player has a high speed connectivity of USB2.0 which transfers the files in a great speed and easy manner.

Package contents and Warranty:

Offered by Creative is Player, USB cable, Earphones as the package contents and about the warranty it is available for 1 year.

Creative Zen Style 300 MP4 Player – Technical Specification Table

Samsung allows you to have the mobile entertainment at your fingertips in this model. Samsung YP-R1JCS MP3/MP4 Player is a slim and stylish looking model with loaded features that gives you endless entertainment in the go. Letting you maintaining your own library with its variable memory capacity for the user to choose from and downloading is a mere friendly task. A further look at its detailed features is in the further read of this review.

Features:

Samsung YP-R1JCS TouchscreenMP4 Player takes pride to be called as one of the fastest download available as simple as the drag and play feature that converts and gives the apt code.

• All is amazing with its touch screen functions that give the real feel of control at the finger tips.
• Just does not stop with letting you listen your favourite music but it goes with the adding of voices, can get a round of applause with different tempo and the pitch. Mixing the way you like it is a great boon of this model.
• Gives you the freedom to expand the main screen with the given choice of five start screens and lets you rearrange the icons and even rotate the screen to the angle of either 90 degrees or 180 degrees.
• When moods change you may wish to feel better with the bigger where it allows you to connect to the TV and lets you watch the same in the big screen.
• The Bluetooth technology keeps you going in a wireless environment for the transfer of files which is even faster and easier.

Physical Characteristics:

If you are conscious of the size and design then get ready to be amazed. This model is graceful with its thick skin that is sturdy but the size as compact as the credit card size. It lets an easy carry and it is razor thin that can slide even in the jean pockets. Sophistication can be experienced with its metal casing body and the tempered glass screen that stands against the scratches and bumps. In the dimension of height 85.2 mm, width of 45.5 and depth of 8.9 mm it offers a display screen that measures 2.6”. The screen belongs to the TFT LED WQVGA type that is impressive with 16 million brilliant colours. The sharp display sometimes makes you forget that you are watching in a portable screen. The 50 grams weight of this product is a feel of just carrying an additional pen. The controls go amazing as this model is been equipped with the touch wiz interface that lets you touch and drag the icons. The touch of the screen gives you an instant feel of the activation with its touch back technology.

Memory and Power:

This model is been integrated with the built-in battery that is rechargeable and a built-in memory of 8GB. The memory that is built-in gives the audio storage of 145 hours, video storage of 137 hours and the battery that is in full charge gives an audio playback time for 25 hours and the video playback of 5 hours. It can be charged either through the PC or the adapter and will get the full charge in 3 hours time.

Supported File Formats:

This model supports the various file formats of JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, SWF, and TXT. Its compatible Operating systems are Windows XP, Vista, Media player 11, Windows 2000. Given is the wide support for its various functional abilities that is been discussed as follows.

Functions:

This Samsung YP-R1JCS Portable Media Player is lavish to offers wide functions that go the way you like it along with its prime functions of Image display, text, FM radio, Voice recording, Video playback, game, blue tooth, data casting, you could experience few more functions like

• adjustable play speed -  This allows you to set the play speed of your favourite music and gives an nice experience to listen to it as fast or slow you could imagine.
• Album art – The right planning of those files is possible and the quick access of the same is the one enjoyed with this feature.
• Lyric display – To make it more professional is the display of the lyric and enjoy having a nice sing along experience.
• Wall paper and clock – Setting the required picture in the wall paper and the clock functions serves as additional.
• Sound effect – Present are 11 different preset EQ to choose from.

Miscellaneous:

Along with these are the multi language support, resume function and the book mark functions adds up value to its utility. The included accessories on purchase of Samsung YP-R1JCS 8GB MP3/MP4 Player are the earphones, USB cable and the quick start guide.

Samsung YP-R1JCS 8GB MP3 & MP4 Player – Technical Specification Table

Most of the people today choose such devices as the medium for listening to audio, watching videos and browsing photos. They are compact and serves high mobility. Being highly personal one can store all his favorites for anytime use. The upgraded models are high in performance and great by looks. This model is new to the series and has taken a place in the best selling category. The following is the review of Sony NWZ-A845 Walkman MP3/MP4 Player to describe the features and abilities of this smart device.

Overview:

This model wins the heart of many with it’s thinnest-ever walkman video player that has a super wide OLED display. It gives an astonishing playback with its block external sound with the digital noise cancelling technology. It allows watching on the big screen with its TV out feature. Compact in design and the elegant control dial makes it an alluring model starring in black colour. This is a perfect company for those spending more time on roads and a friendly companion for the college goers.

The display:

The Sony NWZ-A845 MP3 Video player comes with a 2.8″ display. With the latest technology in screens this gadget too has a super wide OLED screen for the presentation. It is equipped with back light. The player is tilt sensor so that the display can be either presented horizontally or vertically. The quality of the illustration is fairly good as they have a picture quality of 400 x 240 pixels. The information regarding the music tracks and album are all well displayed with the presence of ID3 Tag. With the help of this facility, the player keeps a track on the songs played and displays the information for the user. This is truly a multinational gadget as it has about many languages that can be chosen for menu display.

The audio and video:

Sony NWZ-A845 16GB MP3/MP4 Player comes with specifications to completely fulfill its promise of good sound music for the ears. It is well within its limits of 20 to 20,000 Hz which is the normal range for any standard audio system. The device has an audio system sampling rate of 48 Hz. This ensures that the user gets absolutely lossless audio quality when converting or synchronising the music. The rate is the maximum given for a standard audio output device. Dynamic normaliser, clear bass, clear stereo, DSEE are incorporated in this model.

The volume can be controlled in the device and ensures the user can adjust it accordingly. The music output can be adjusted by the bass and sound enhancement feature. With the help of these two functions the music will be at its very best. The equaliser too helps to a great extent in providing the platform for the music output. Choice of bass, rock, pop, classical or normal enhances the quality of the audio.

The latest ones like the OGG and FLAC are present enabling the user to be up to date with the most recent formats. The MP3 bit rates during conversion is up to 320 Kbps which ensures that during compression the music quality remains as clear as listening to the compact disc effect. The outside noise is reduced with its noise cancelling technology. On the whole the various supported file formats are MP3, AAC, WMA, DRM, AVC, MPEG4 and JPEG. The music searching options are wide and the user can choose the option with his friendly field among all songs, album, artist, genre, release year, play lists, folder. Like wise the video and photo play back can be done in the normal mode as continuous playback and the slide show functions are not supported by this model. In case of the music playback the options are many like the normal, repeat, shuffle, shuffle and repeat, repeat 1 song and even the language learning mode.

The energy management:

The Sony NWZ-A845 MP4 Media player is energised by a li-polymer battery which is rechargeable and has high performance level. It needs to be charged for about 3 hours after which one can enjoy music for 29 hours without any interruption. It can be charged with the help of the USB port too.

Miscellaneous:

Sony NWZ-A845 Walkman 2.8” OLED full colour MP3/MP4 Player does not perform to offer voice recording and FM recording. The standard accessories offered by the manufacturer are Headphones; ear buds for headphones, operation guide CD, quick start guide, USB cable, audio input cable, plug adaptor for in-flight use and rechargeable battery.

Sony NWZ-A845 MP4 Player – Technical Specification Table

A perfect companion for a pretty girl or an ideal gift for a loved one is how one can describe the Sweex MP474 Vidi Pink 4GB MP4 Player. The player is sleek and slim with dimensions of 61mm in height, 41mm in width and 11mm in depth. Weighing only 36grams, it is feather light and easy to carry around in one’s pocket while jogging or pop it into a clutch bag. With pink exteriors this MP4 player is delicate and dainty in appearance and has some very dedicated features making this gadget appealing to both the eye and the heart.

The main features of this player is that one can play audio, watch videos and have photos in the player that add a personal touch.

• MP3, OGG, FLAC, AIFF, WMA, MP2, MP1 and ASF are the audio file formats that are well supported by this system. Most of these formats are popularly utilised thus enabling the user hassle free application of the system. OGG and FLAC are the more recent file formats keeping the player up to date with technology so that the one can make use of the latest too. With 48 kHz as the maximum sampling rate of the audio system and 320 kbps bit rate of MP3 the audio system is enabled to give good quality audio output. These features help to reduce the loss of quality on compression and avoid the outside noise that tends to increase while synchronising or transferring the music files. The audio frequency is 20 to 20,000 Hz which is the standard that has to be maintained for a good audio system. The volume can be controlled manually by the user. With the help of the equaliser the music quality can be enhanced as the environment like pop, jazz, classical or natural can be set. This actually gets accentuated further with the presence of bass and sound enhancement.
• The MP4 player is equipped with the added facility of watching videos too in the same gadget. AMV is the format file that is ably supported for video compression. So any video clippings in this file format can be viewed through the MP4.
• Photos can be viewed in this player. BMP and JPEG are the two still image file formats that can be used. This feature helps in personalising the gadget and making it closer to the heart.

Display:

True to its dimension the screen is diagonally about one and a half inches. The LCD screen has a picture quality of 128 by 128 pixels which is quite adequate for a media player. They are accompanied by the back light that makes the presentation more clear and bright. With the help of ID3 Tag display the user is able to see all the information regarding the music track that is being played and the progress of it. The display menu is truly multinational in nature with a large number of languages. The various languages that are supported are English, French, Italian, German, Thai, Russian, Danish, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Portuguese and Czech.

Energy capacity:

A single battery of Li-polymer attributes to the power engine of this gadget. This is a rechargeable battery that needs to be charged for about 4 hours. This will enable the MP4 player to continuously play for about eight and a half hours of pure music or for about four hours of video clippings. The capacity of the battery is pretty powerful which enables the user to be free of the hassle of charging it quite often. Being a rechargeable battery it helps in the green movement making it all the more eco friendly. The sleep timer is yet another feature that contributes to the green movement as it switches off or goes into the stand-by mode after a certain period of time. Through the USB port the gadget could be charged additionally too. These extra functions make it all the more flexible and straightforward.

Memory capacity:

Sweex Vidi MP474 MP4 Player is equipped with a 4 GB storage capacity. This is substantial to assist the various functions and features of the gadget. The capacity enables the storage of most of the favourite tracks in one device itself. It is compliant to flash memory and mass storage memory thus increasing the storage ability.

Additional Add ons:

• The player comes with voice recording. Though the recording may not be of superior quality compared to the high end micro phones, this is useful for memo dictation or as an oral notepad. The audio recording format files that are supported are WAV 32 Kbps and 8 Kbps or ACT 32 Kbps and 8 Kbps.
• There are useful indicators that display whether the battery is charging or the battery is full. These indicators make it more user friendly.

Connectivity management:

The player comes with a USB port of 2.0 enabling speedy transfer of files. The technology used in here is wired. Blue tooth and Wi-Fi is not enabled though in the gadget. Internet card or audio card is not required for the system. FAT32 system file is well supported and the bundle software AMV converter is provided. With the help of this converter videos can be transformed into the AMV files. The operating systems that are compatible with the gadget are Windows XP and Vista.

Contents in the box:

Vidi Pink 4GB TFT LCD MP4 Player comes with the headphones as an accessory. USB cable is provided too. To get familiar with the MP4, a user guide in the form of a CD-ROM is provided. Software for system requirements too is supplied in a CD-ROM.

It can be concluded that the player is very compact and handy. Pretty in appearance and adequate in features it proves to a standard gadget. Other than the fact it does not have a radio equipped in the player it is endowed with most of the latest features.

Sweex Vidi Pink 4GB MP4 Player – Technical Specification Table