RCA TH1102 Pearl Series 2 GB MP3 Player

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.2 x 1.1 x 0.9 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000P6LA3K
• Item model number: TH1102
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #30,316 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2004

Product Description

Product Description

2 GB Digital Voice Recorder w/Earbud Headphones & 7-color Backlit Display

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great with a few exceptions...., July 19, 2007

By	K. A. Monson (Wichita KS) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Pro: This compact MP3 player with voice recording is a great and inexpensive alternative to certain I-'s! It connects to the computer and comes up as a thumb drive for easy drag and drop song insertion. No complicated software to learn (or be tied to).

Con: Doesn't come with a belt clip or a case, battery is inside a hump which give the case a bulky look. Should use rechargeable coin style batteries. The unit could be a little bigger with bigger easier to press buttons. For those of us with fat fingers!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic sound and ease of use combined, August 22, 2007

By	Daniel Haden - See all my reviews

I've tried a lot of MP3 players. This is much better than the rest.

The RCA Pearl is super easy to use. It can make 96kb MP3, or even 48kb WMA (and everything larger too), sound like CD quality. Now, that's a winner! It has a replacable AAA battery so you're never out of action to wait on a recharge. Its fully compatible with the common recharable battery kits, so you can have the best of both worlds. Internal sound technology is similar to Creative X-fi, but this RCA product is easier to use, sounds better, lower priced, and more durable. With that technology, of course it can play back highly compressed files with fantastic quality. So, you can fit one heck of a lot of songs on here. For great music, this is just the thing.
For extra fun,
There's a simple cord available at Radio Shack that hooks this up to your home stereo. Aha! No more need to mess with a bunch of CDs. I love this little thing.
Caveat? No caveat, considering its price range. The headphones that come with it are clear and reasonable; however, the Pearl is capable of pro quality sound if you use headphones of that caliber. Don't let that bother you. This is ready to use on the very minute you free it from the box, and it sounds wonderful.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Poor mans IPOD, July 20, 2008

By	G. Miller "Glenderbender" (Sacramento, Ca.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The price is right the quality is very good. I own four of them! I am still working on wearing out my first one that I have had for over a year. I am finally starting to wear the paint off of it. The most notable feature to me is the fact that it plays folders. Just pop the songs you want into a folder on your pc and then download them to your RCA Pearl MP3 player and they play in the same order as they are in the folder. Hence for albums there is no trying to figure out where each song goes to the original album. They play in order. People pay for pocket PC style mp3 players or Ipods to get this same feature. To have this feature on such a low cost player is outstanding. Give props to RCA for this well overdue feature on a low cost player. As far as not having the two gigs of space as advertised I had no problem with it. Make sure to format using fat 32 and you will be able to use the entire two gig. I have had the same problem with SD memory cards not using the whole space formated until I changed the format style. I use 15 minute rechargable batteries and I never have an issue with the battery running down. I always carry spares in my back pack just in case. Come on about the size. I have cigarette lighter that takes up about the same space and you can buy a case for jogging for about $7.00 at walmart.

I listen to multi-types of music and I alwasy make sure to create/download my MP3's with at least 160kbs (peer to Peer). When MP3's where first started 128kbs was considered near CD quality and 160kbs was CD quality. The more kbs the larger the file but you get a much better quality. 128kbs to 160kbs is not that much more space per song (about 1mg). Most people now days have at least 120gig on there PC/Laptop and you can always back your music collection up on DVD. 128kbs tends to crackle and pop and give interferance. In order to transfer mp3's quicker the industry simply decided to call 128kbs cd quality. The industry lied to be able to transfer and sale more music to customers(same time frame as DSL startups so Dial up was predominate). Money drives everything. In truth I believe if you get less then 160kbs then you are not getting what you deserve. The point is if you have poor music quality on this player it is probably not the players fault.