iriver H10 6 GB Digital MP3 Player Blue

by iRiver

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009MCINQ
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The iRiver 6 GB model H10 is the perfect portable digital player/recorder for true music and audio enthusiasts. Hardly bigger than a deck of cards, its internal microdrive has space for over 1,500 songs (128 kbps MP3, 4 minutes per song) or more than 100 hours of music. Yet the whole player measures just 2.2 x 3.8 inches (W x H) and little more than half an inch deep. Sensibly arranged controls--including an intuitive central touchpad--make it child's play to setup and use, and an internal battery delivers up to 12 hours of non-stop music between charges.

But the H10 is about more than just music. It comes complete with a brilliant, full-color 1.5-inch TFT LCD that supports up to 260,000 colors, rendering your favorite JPEG digital photos with breathtaking clarity. (Yep, it does slide shows, too.) What's more, an integrated text viewer lets you lose yourself in paperless novels, news, essays, short stories--you name it.

A built-in microphone facilitates use as a voice recorder, with 3 quality settings to choose from. The unit also features a built-in FM tuner with a choice of automatic and manual channel-search functions, including 20 station presets for one-touch tuning to your favorites, especially handy for traffic and news updates when you're out and about. An antenna built into the supplied headset ensures crystal-clear sound quality, and a timer lets you set the H10 to record radio programs with real-time MP3 encoding at specific times of your choosing.

The H10 is PlaysForSure compatible and fully integrated with Microsoft Windows Media Player 10, which makes it even easier to enjoy your digital media. In addition to a range of options for managing digital content, you'll enjoy fast access to the H10's "digital media hall," where you can scavenge the virtual shelves of numerous online shops (including Napster To Go) in search of cool songs old and new. With the player/recorder connected to your PC, you'll be able to purchase and download songs straight into the H10. An auto-sync function synchronizes music and image files on the H10 with those stored on your PC, just like a PDA.

An optional docking cradle (the H10 5GB/6GB Cradle) charges your H10 player plus an additional battery, connects your H10 to your home stereo system, and lets you record from external analog sources via an integrated line-in port.

Icing on the cake, the H10 also a guaranteed head turner with a high-grade aluminum casing whose purist elegance is as pleasing to the eye as the touch.

What's in the Box
Digital music player/recorder, stereo earphones, a carrying case with belt clip, a USB 2.0 interface cable, an installation CD, an AC adapter, a user's manual, and warranty information.

Product Description

iRiver (H10BLUE6GB) - H10 6GB MP3 Player Blue

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ^_^ Great MP3 Player, October 2, 2005

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Joann Hardison - See all my reviews
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This review is from: iriver H10 6 GB Digital MP3 Player Blue (Electronics)

I saved up my summer paychecks and decided to get this mp3 player, Over-all it is a great great mp3 player, I love it, the Sound quality is Great, however there are a few things in particular that are excellent. getting music is pretty easy as with all music these days. There is a brief delay in switching tracks where you hear a clicking-like sound, but i expect to forget about that in due time.

In terms of software its Easy easy easy to use in conjunction with Windows Media players, it took me a few days to adjust of course though, but i expect thats natural for these things. Its pretty easy to get music these days whichever way you get it. In terms of transferring music, such as an individual album its pretty fast taking proportional time to the amount of music. Im really satisfied with it, the battery life is great! Its a Great Mp3 player I reccommend it over an I-pod as well! It has alot of features that just beat-out the ipod, if your using an 80 GB i-pod you are crazy!! No, Insane. if you have that much music you are pretty XD anyways I love this mp3 player and ty Nv for reccomending it to me, i'd reccomend it to my friends and everyone

Nice mp3 player totally outclasses my other two mp3 players.

Awesome.

Im looking forward to filling it, creating playlists, and downloading albums on to my iRiver.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This player has a few bugs, August 17, 2006

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L. Randall (Rock Island, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: iriver H10 6 GB Digital MP3 Player Blue (Electronics)

I've had my iRiver H10 for about a year. I haven't had any problems with sound quality.

I plug it into the charger every night, which keeps the battery charged. I've only had one time where the battery went dead between charges.

Negatives:

I had to send it back to be repaired under warranty because the touchpad stopped working. The tech support people were very fast and helpful in handling my request. It took about three weeks turn-around time before my repaired player was returned to me.

The player freezes up and becomes unresponsive way too often. I don't mind reformatting it once in awhile, but you shouldn't have to do it once or twice a month, which seems to be the rate that I've been having it freeze up on me. Tech support was NOT helpful with this issue. After talking to them a couple of times, I came to realize that it's just one of the quirks with this product, and there isn't really anything that the tech support people can do about it. If you buy one of these, make sure that you download the Firmware Updater program from the iRiver website, because you're going to need it whenever you have to reformat the player.

I found that you won't have to reformat it as often if you treat it with kid gloves. While it's syncing, don't use Windows Media Player to do anything else. Don't play any songs; don't browse your library. Let it have complete focus on syncing. Don't unplug the USB cable until the player tells you to do so. If it appears to get stuck while it's syncing, don't push any buttons or click anything in WMP. Just leave it alone, and it usually becomes un-stuck after a few minutes.

The instruction book incorrectly shows that Windows will assign a drive letter to the player when you plug it in with the USB cable. This is not true. You cannot use it like a drive. You can only add/remove files through Windows Media Player.

I don't think the shuffle feature works very well. When you have a large amount of files on the player, it has a tendency to pick tracks that have titles close to the beginning of the alphabet. For example, if you have 800 tracks on the player and play it on shuffle for an hour, 75% of the songs that you hear will start with the letters A-I, and there might not be any songs that start with letters P-Z. According to the iRiver website, the latest firmware is supposed to fix this problem, but it doesn't.

In short, it has some problems that I've learned to live with, but I don't think I'd recommend this product to anyone else, and I wouldn't buy another one for myself.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cool player, but it's not an unalloyed pleasure, August 5, 2006

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Miwii (BROOKLYN, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: iriver H10 6 GB Digital MP3 Player Blue (Electronics)

I wanted 6 GB of storage and a color screen.

And really I don't care for iPods.

So I got what I wanted in this unit, which is lovely to behold.

The sound is excellent, and the included headphones are pretty good. The screen in beautiful. It's got a radio and a voice recorder. And it makes me happy every time I look at it.

Now the downside: You have to enjoy fiddling with electronics.

A lot. It is just not simple to load or use, and I think this is because of the juncture of the tricky-to-use Windows Media Player and the unit's own interface. You -will- scratch your head.

Out loud.

Then you get it loaded ... and so where is my music?

In the browser only. Yah! The pix look terrific though.

Anyway, I solved my problems ... using the Mystic River boards,

the UMS trick and Easy H10. Don't know what those are?

Um, you will ...

So, it's good, but be prepared to play with it before you play it.