iAUDIO CW200 256 MB MP3 Player with FM Radio and Voice Recorder

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Product Details

Product Manual [4.82mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 1.4 x 0.6 x 3.3 inches ; 1.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00007KE6V
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (85 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #142,828 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Ultra-compact, lightweight and stylish design
iAUDIO's unique compact, sleek design provides skip-free music, maximum portability and durability. The aluminum cover on the front and back of the body gives an elegant and contemporary look.

Rich and superb sound quality
World-class JetAudio's MP3 technology produces rich and superb sounds through a variety of effects by adjusting Equalizer settings (Bass, Treble, Loudness & Dynamic Bass). Especially, Dynamic Bass produces deeper and tighter bass sound than any other MP3 players.

High-quality voice recording capability
In addition to the MP3 playback, the professional voice-recording facility provides you with the function of recording important notes, meetings or lectures. You can also save them to your PC for playback later on. The high fidelity recording mode will ensure your recordings are perfectly clear. User can choose HQ or UHQ mode for recording. UHQ mode provides higher recording quality than HQ mode.

Listen to the FM stereo radio and record it at the same time!
With its superb FM stereo radio receiver, you can listen to the FM radio and record it at the same time. It supports 24 preset channels and a variety of sound settings enabled by the equalizer.

Supports multi-languages
Supports all international characters such as English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, etc.

Graphic LCD window, 2 jog levers
Graphic LCD with Indigo Blue EL backlit gives you an eye-soothing effect. Display of track title, elapsed time and play mode on the LCD screen and two jog levers which control various features and options are the ultimate in user convenience.

Ultra power-saving circuit
Ultra power-saving circuit enables up to 12 hours of continuous playback with one AAA battery.

MP3 conversion (encoding) software
JetShell included in iAUDIO package is software that quickly converts music tracks in CDs into MP3 files and downloads the MP3 files onto iAUDIO. Thus, you can listen to CD music through iAUDIO.

JetAudio
With JetAudio, a world-class integrated multimedia player software, you can either listen to music or watch videos on your PC.

Firmware upgrade
iAUDIO can be upgraded easily by using the firmware download function. The logo of iAUDIO can also be changed.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome player, December 21, 2002

By 

kev (Brooklyn, New York United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: iAUDIO CW200 256 MB MP3 Player with FM Radio and Voice Recorder (Electronics)

This is an excellent mp3 player -- the sound is incredible with a 95db SNR and a very customizable eq setting (bass,treble,dynamic bass,loudness, etc). The included earbuds are of avg. quality and does not do the sound quality justice - personally I'm using Sony's EX70s, the white imported kinds and looks great with the stylish white clip/case included with the player -- great for the gym by the way. I'm also getting very good FM reception with the radio function in NYC. The voice recorder I've only played with a little to test and its clear and sensitive, but I wouldn't know how well it would do in say a classroom lecture. The software is very easy to use and also allows you to convert WAVs/CD tracks to mp3 files easily. Highly recommended!
If you're doing some comparing - the riosport series have a very unimpressive sound fidelity and terrible radio reception, the creative muvo sounds good but doesn't have FM radio, voice rec. EQ settings, or a display and the cw200 has all these things plus its practically the same size and the cw200 offers a 256MB model vs 128. The only other option I'd think about would be the iriver ifp series - but if you're an audiophile, compare these two and you'll know the cw200 sounds better (90 snr vs. 95 snr)

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the one!, December 20, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: iAUDIO CW200 256 MB MP3 Player with FM Radio and Voice Recorder (Electronics)

This is an incredible product and company! Absolutely the best portable MP3 player in its class. It is very small (smaller than a credit card) but has plenty of storage (choose 64, 128 or 256MB version when you buy). Also has a great FM radio, voice recorder, good sound quality and an excellent display & controls. The product is well made and comes with a case, belt clip, decent ear buds, cables & software. It's easy to drop the player into a shirt or pants pocket.

The software is VERY easy to use -- just drag and drop MP3s or files from your CD (it will automatically convert them to MP3). Click a button and it will look up your CD song titles from an Internet database. If you're interested, it also has a utility program that will convert any animated GIF or image file into a logo you can download to the player. Your custom animated logo displays on the LCD when you turn the unit on. Very nice.

When you download an MP3 file to the player, you can choose any Windows font and size for the song title display. I like the hand script fonts -- they make the display look friendly. The LCD has a blue backlight and you can adjust how long the backlight stays on after a button press.

The MP3 player includes a full equalizer. Separate +/- control of bass, treble, loudness & dynamic bass. You can save your settings under a "User" selection, or choose from several preset equalizations (rock, classical, etc.). There are also lots of other options to allow you to customize how the player works (if you want to).

Read the instructions to understand what the buttons do. Other than that, everything else about the player and the software is simple. The player has a lot of nice options to play with, but it's easy to use right out of the box if you're not a techie.

Jet Audio customer service is unbelievably good. I placed my order at the busiest time (one week before Christmas) and they still shipped the same day. The players were ordered through Amazon.com from the "New & used" option -- that means Jet-Audio fills the order directly. When you place the order, there's no option to choose a shipping method and Amazon.com says it could take up to 21 days (yikes!). I placed the order & emailed Jet-Audio to see if they could ship faster. They replied immediately and said the product would ship that day -- I received it two days later (in California). I purchased three players and had a problem with one. I sent them an email and they handled the problem that same day. You just can't ask for better customer service.

Great product, great company, great price ---

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very satisfied with CW200 256MB MP3 Player, March 29, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: iAUDIO CW200 256 MB MP3 Player with FM Radio and Voice Recorder (Electronics)

I bought this device for Christmas 2002 after doing a lot of research on the internet, and I have been very satisfied so far. It had all the features I was looking for, including enough built-in storage so that removable media is not necessary. I also wanted something with a beltclip that I could use when exercising (the main use for this device). It can also receive FM radio and the reception is very good. And it can record voice memos. I have had no trouble with the software for managing audio files in the unit. The included Jet Audio MP3 player is OK, but I prefer using Windows Media Player because the update of album info is easier. The only thing sort of missing is the ability to play WMA files, but MP3 appears to be a more widespread standard. I got an MP3 plug-in for Windows Media Player. The sound quality of the unit is great. Output is plenty loud for me. I highly recommend this unit as a player to use for exercising. The iPOD has much greater capacity and may be the best unit to take all your music with you, but its movable parts (hard disk) makes it unsuitable to me for use while jogging or engaging in other vigorous exercise.