Customer Reviews

iriver CXW-4G Clix 4 GB Digital Music and Video Player (Black)

5 star:		(19)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I am a tough reviewer and rarely give 5 stars, but this product earns it.

When I first opened the package and saw the Clix, I thought that it was too small. How can they put much into a small and light package like that?

Well, they definitely did. The interface is better than the iPod's. You push an edge of the screen to navigate and set options. It is very intuitive and I have done a lot without reading the manual.

The FM capabilities are amazing. The auto-tune to set the presets automatically picked up all the stations in my area perfectly -- no mistakes. I could then delete the ones I don't want. The high-resolution display does a great job of displaying all the presets with a verticle line and indicators where each station is. When reaching the highest setting, just push up again and it goes to the lowest, which is what one would want. ALL the stations in my area came in very clearly.

For Audible books it's great, and loading to the device doesn't require iTunes (desktop) which is inferior to Audible's [...] desktop program. With 4G of storage, I can put all of my audio books on it.

It works great as a MP3 player. The sound seems better than my 5G 80gig video iPod.

For me, I am going to use it for audio books and FM. I use the iPod for music because I can store 80gig on it.

I definitely recommend this product.

Personally, I really like it and I kind of had a hard time finding things I didn't like.

+ Great sound quality.
+ Beautiful screen, a little small but it does the job. Very high resolution.
+ Intuative interface. The controls are very easy to learn.
+ Clock is displayed at all times.
+ Many preset equalizers and one customizable.
+ Pictures can be applied as the background.
+ The screen's orientation can be portrait or landscape.
+ Smart button: It can control one command, that is cuztomizable on the fly by holding it down. (Play/pause, Main Menu, Shuffle on/off etc.)
+ Text viewer. It's just plain handy.
+ It's very small, convenient to hold, and very, very sexy.
+ Displays next track, progress in to the song and total song length.
+ Album art is displayed on the Now Playing screen.
+ The battery meter seems to be reliable.

+/- 4 gigs. For someone with a huge colleciton of music, this may not be for you. If you want access to all of your music on a whim, then go bigger. For people (like me) who have smaller collections, it's great.
+/- Rechargable. One cannot change batteries when they are dead, so it has to be plugged in, and eventually, it will be a paper weight because rechargable batteries die.

- Having to use Media Player to synch files (although that seems to be a falsehood. Opening the directory allows one to drag and drop files to the device. They seem to play normally. (So + then?)
- Movies are in AVI format only. Find a converter for other formats. : (
- The text viewer does not have word wrap, so it breaks words up.
- Text viewer does not recognize enter spaces in documents.
- Straight out of the box the only way to recharge it is by leaving it connected to the USB cord. (wall charger is available 20USD from the website)

+ It is not an Apple product.

I have an IPOD nano and this Iriver Clix 4G and I now prefer the Clix. It's simple to use, light, small, and encapsules a lot in one device. The display is crystal clear, and by my non-expert standards, has great sound quality. I absolutely love it. The accessories choices available for the Clix are also excellent. It works great in my car and has excellent battery life.

My only mild concern is that it is not a truly cross-platform product and depends on Windows Media Player.

I did a lot of research and found the perfect MP3 Player, the iRiver clix. It is everything I read about and more. Here's my comments on it's different features...

*Sound: Best I've hear from any MP3 player.
*Interface: Unique and very simple to use. Looks very cool. Displays the actual album cover. Comes with cool wallpaper that can be set to automatically change daily. Easily synch from Windows Media Player.
*Video: You can download a converter from the iRiver wesbite that easily converts any video. Very nice.
*Tuner: Has an auto preset feature. Sounds great.
*Photos: Look great.
*Extra features: Text reader is nice. You can record external sounds and input from another device. Has an alarm clock. Comes with several Flash games. You can download more free one's from iRiver.

I highly recommend the cradle device accessory. It comes with a little remote and turns your MP3 player into a very cool alarm clock. You can wake to different sounds or music. You can also play music and watch videos out loud.

Erik

I have two players. The more elaborate Creative Zen W and this one for the gym walks and I keep it in my purse when I am stuck somewhere. It is the easiest interface and ssooooo easy to use in the gym. No stopping on machines to move to another song just a click and you maneuver through the menu. Can't be more user friendly. I love that it's light and adaptable and now that they make the plastic clip holder I am in heaven.

This is my second I-River and it is making my friends think twice about the cult that is Ipod.

I got an iRiver clix right when they first came out over the summer 2006 (perhaps that was my problem). I really liked it, it was cute easy to use and I found an armband that I could get to take it to the gym with me. Within a week it stopped working. I got to the gym and went to turn it on and it wouldnt start or anything so I figured maybe I didnt charge it. I connected it to three different computers and nothing worked. I didnt understand because it had worked the day before and I never mistreated it or anything. I went back to the store and the swapped it out and gave me a new one. That one was working great and performing well until about 6 months later when it too did the exact same thing. This time I took it back to the store because I had purchased a 3 year extended warranty on it and was told that they would swap it out again. Well come to find out that store is no longer going to carry the iRiver Clix so they didnt have anymore in stock. I had to get another mp3 player of equal or lesser value, the choices were limited of course but what can you do.

The player is nice, I liked that it played video and pictures and had a built in radio, something not all mp3 players are designed with. If it hadnt done the same thing to me twice I would have given this player 4 stars. Im not sure if it is some design flaw or what but it was extremely frustrating. If you do purchase the player I would suggest getting an extended warranty, just in case you run across a problem similar (cause a 200 dollar mp3 player that dies in a matter of months and isnt covered would just be horrible, well at least on a student budget). Ok well thats my story, wanted to throw it out there since when I bought it it was new and no reviews.

After literally thousands of hours of use, my beloved Rio Carbon died - or at least you could no longer adjust the volume. It could have had something to do with my dropping it on its head on a tile floor. To my distress, I learned the company that produced this device had exited the mp3 device market. On a day we were snowed in, I spent hours researching the alternatives and in the end settled on the iRiver. I had owned an iRiver CD player for a number of years and liked both the device and the company.

All possible accessories for this toy exist from a mini docking station to an all-in-one fm transmitter. The download of audible.com books came hassle free (unlike with an iPod) and the sound quality for the spoken word is excellent. My coveting husband gets one for Christmas.

the clix is one of the best looking mp3/video player i owned. very intuitive menu system and great sound and video quality but when it comes to synching podcasts look elsewhere, ie: ipod.
It also suffers from a battery charging issue. It looses charge very quickly even if not used and will not vharge unless it is totaly discharged.
Their customer support is not responsive to be polite. Mine got broken and I tried calling them several times but other then a very annoying recording wasn't able to get anybody to answer. after 2 emails and a week i finally got an email back saying my broken clix is not covered under warranty. they didn't even offer to fix it for a cost.
In summary, i liked the clix but after my experience i will not be getting a new one.

Technology never stops moving forward, I guess. This little gadget is awesome! Slightly thicker than an iPod Nano but still tiny, it supports music AND video (not to mention FM), has a cool interface, comes with a protective case and is the price of an iPod. I am stoked!

So I did my fair share of time researching my next mp3 player. It was between a Ipod or the little marvel. Looking at overall features, right out of the box and set up and ease, was something that I did. The clix took the cake once all was said and done. I mean it doesn't get much better than this little media player. The only thing that I did find negative was the front of the screen. It smudges with finger prints just like the sony psp. I easily fixed that by putting a screen protector over it and problem solved. If you looking for a grate product and works with windows media player then you found it. I just can't see myself selling my soul to the apple ipod trend. Iriver came out with a grate product and one very satiated customer.