Centon 1GB USB 2.0 Digital MP3 WMA Player Voice Recorder Flash Drive

by Centon

Product Details

• Item Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• ASIN: B000EM1AT4
• Item model number: 1GBMP-001
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77,513 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 2, 2004

Product Description

CENTON MOVEX MP3 PMP 1GB (GREY) : 1GBMP3-001

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars LOTS OF FEATURES, CRAPPY DOCUMENTATION, May 12, 2006

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Computer Guy "Duh" (Cyberspace, Nerdville) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Centon 1GB USB 2.0 Digital MP3 WMA Player Voice Recorder Flash Drive (Electronics)

This thing is awesomely loaded ... fm radio, voice recorder, mp3 playback, lyric display with .lrc files, multilanguage menus (including Trad and Simp Chinese, which is not on some of the other models? or was added to this model later?), multispeed playback (e.g. stretch an 1 min mp3 to 2 minutes or speed through in 30 secs) **BUT** operating it is not very intuitive and the documentation that comes with it is terrible. Centon has an on-line forum to ask questions, but I was not able to register in 3 attempts. Battery life is okay, at least 5 hrs on a rechargable AAA, I usually recharge before the indicator gets half empty. There is an annoying pause with a 'Please wait' message when you first start it up. Not sure how/if you can get the unit to play items in sorted by filename. There is a menu item for a Playlist, which uses A3L format files. I have no idea what that is but it is not plain text like .m3u.

If they would have thrown me a bone with the documentation (fix the forum or include a decent manual) or if it had an SD slot (it doesn't) I would have given it a 5 despite the boondongle operating procedures.

Oh yeah, the thing has a USB connector built-in (like a thumb drive), the cover comes off complete and is easily misplaced. You need to remove the USB cover and another cover to replace the battery, but meh no big deal.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, January 3, 2007

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Luis Bermudez - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Centon 1GB USB 2.0 Digital MP3 WMA Player Voice Recorder Flash Drive (Electronics)

Very good product for the price. The sound is not the best, but compense the price... Very Easy to use!!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loaded with cool features that are hard to use., July 11, 2007

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John Mcguire (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Centon 1GB USB 2.0 Digital MP3 WMA Player Voice Recorder Flash Drive (Electronics)

If you're looking for a low cost MP3 player/ digital recorder you found it. I wouldn't recommend this product for its advanced features because they are difficult to use.
My Favorite feature: The Headset is built-in to the lanyard. This means the ear buds aren't yanked out of your ears.
Coolest Feature: You can record songs off the FM tuner and play them back later. ROCK ON!
Worse Feature: Play/Pause button, if pressed for a millisecond too long, will pop you out of whatever you are doing and start recording.