Customer Reviews

Coby MP-C351 Portable MP3 Boom Box with 512 MB Flash Memory and SD Card Slot

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Have owned for about 2 months now and am pleased with purchase. Use nightly for 10 to 12 hours to play white noise recorded on SD card, daily to play TV audio with my small projector, and ocasionally during day to play music from SD card or listen to NPR. Will take 2 GB SD card without problems. Does a very good job for such a small unit. Works well on FM, internal and external (SD card) memory, and line in. Volume as expected is lower than a larger unit. Only complaint is the lack of AM radio and a remote would be nice.

Ok, so I saw the bad reviews here, but we bought one of these on closeout. My 5 year old daughter has one she carries around always and just LOVES IT. How they packed so much into this box! Amazing sound from the little box, easy USB connectivity (shows up as flash drive), built in memory to start, radio, line in, records in 44khz 128 bit mp3 beautifully, alarm, decent interface, cool looking perfect sized with cool integrated antenna. I don't usually gush over stuff, but I am an engineer, and I am not usually impressed. There is always some missing feature I wish gadgets had. This is different. It is perfect, although slightly buggy.

The battery life is fine, but the full meter shows it's out waaay before it is. We are using AA rechargeables in C spacers which seem to work great (I wish it just took AAs anyway). I haven't tried it, but apparently the SD interface is buggy. My daughter is fine with 512meg. My daughter is not real nice too it, but it has held up so far. It sounds like I am lucky on this one, but we haven't had problems.

I would buy these for all the kids in my life. Hopefully Coby comes up with a follow up that fixes some of the minor issues. I would for sure buy even this one again though!

This thing was about what I expected, but I had hoped for more. The button functions are fairly unclear, couldn't figure out how to turn it off for a while. It eats batteries like fat kids eat cake. FM radio is virtually useless due to poor reception. This is old technology by now, so do yourself a favor and buy something else unless they are giving these away.

After all the bad reviews I see for coby products, I thought _maybe_ they should have learned from their mistakes and finally make something that works. It's not a far fetched hope since this is their 2nd gen of this mp3+speaker system. But no, the unit froze on me by inserting an SD card. Turning the unit off and on again is of no help. It has a reset procedure, but only accessable from the menu, which of course is of no use since the unit is frozen. If they make crappy products, they should at least make the reset a hardware reset..

It's been a long time since I've had a brand new electronic product that died within the first half hour of use. I've always stayed away from low-end brands like Coby like the plague, but I started noticing nicer-looking products from Coby while cruising through stores like Walgreens and Target, so I decided finally to give Coby a chance when my wife needed a simple MP3 boombox (no CD) that has a flash card slot, to play tunes for our baby. And it just so turns out that Coby is one of very few brands that makes such a device (strange but true, as of Dec 2007). When it arrived, things were looking good. My wife liked its appearance, and it generally felt like a semi-quality piece. So I dropped several dozen songs onto an SD card and slipped it into the Coby's CD slot. I browsed through some of the settings in the menu, which were straightforward and effective, and setup the radio with my preferred presets. All of this took 10 minutes or so. Then...after playing 3 or 4 songs, it froze. None of the buttons worked. I unplugged the device from the power socket, replugged it in, the LCD came back on, but none of the buttons were responsive. I unplugged and replugged it in several more times. No luck. It won't turn on. None of the buttons work. I'm RMA'ing back to Amazon the very same day I got it. Thank goodness for Amazon's return policy. And...I will not touch Coby again.