Dispelling myths and righting wrongs
Written: Oct 16 '02 (Updated Oct 16 '02)
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Pros: Mobility of music at a high sound quality and rechargeable battery.
Cons: Slightly delicate
The Bottom Line: I believe it to be a wonderful addition to my Sony-Ericsson t68i phone. It has beautiful sound and hours of enjoyment.
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| scottyg1213's Full Review: Ericsson Hpm 10 Digital Player - 32mb |
I have been reading reviews everywhere from Esato Forum to Epinions and am finding (much to my understanding), that many people are quite confused not only by the operation of the unit but also as to its abilities. I am writing this because I feel that I should share with everyone the knowledge that I have learned in working with this unit. It would be good to read this because the manual is not very helpful in explaining, if at all these small but important details. My following opinion is based on a T68i phone.
First off the unit for all intensive purposes is great, that is once you have figured out how to make it great. Sound quality is excellent, portability is good, and depending on where you buy it the price is reasonable.
The first myth that I shall dispel is with regards to the headphone connection, which is a direct reflection of the sound quality. The headphones come in a 2.5mm or 3/32" size adaptor. This is smaller than your regular 3.5mm or 1/8" headphone jack. The headphone adaptor comes with what looks to be a strange cylindrical head that fits around the headphone jack at the base of the plug. If you touch this cylindrical part to make contact with the port at the MP3 player base it will make the music sound distorted, which is why everyone has been saying to pull it out slightly. I had experienced the same thing myself and was very frustrated because if you leave it out slightly the plug pops out and has no stability. However if you push the cylindrical part all of the way, and I mean fairly hard, the adaptor fits all the way in and the sound quality is restored to its perfect state. The outer cylindrical part is the closing of the circuit for the Microphone part of the headphone piece. Once the plug is pushed all the way in, it makes for a very sturdy connection.
2nd.) Although the 2.5mm or 3/32" connector is smaller the your average headphones, you can buy at Radioshack even, an adaptor that converts it to 3.5mm or 1/8".
3rd.) The unit does come with a 32MB MMC(MultiMedia card) it can easily be replaced with a larger capacity one. Currently 128MB is the largest capacity currently being offered as of 10/16/02. I have purchased a Kodak 128MB card from Buy.com for $80. As far as the limitation of it's storage capacity one can only assume it is limited to the storage size of the MulitMedia Cards. I asked Sony-Ericsson of it's limitations and they would only guarantee 64MB, and I am using a 128MB. So it is yet to be seen if it has any limitations.
4th.) The MultiMedia card reader/writer that is comes with is connected to your PC through a Serial Port adaptor. Given this is old technology, and that it doesn't have the speed of communication as say something like a USB reader, it still isn't that slow. It took me about 2.5 minutes to copy 120MB onto my card. Currently Sandisk (the designers of the unit) only have drivers up to Windows 2000. However I am running XP and installed the drivers and it works. Be warned though that is running the driver based on 2000 drivers and occasionally I have had it crash the system. I can only assume though that drivers are being made for XP.
The only negative aspects that I have to add about this product are that it does not allow you to use any other functions while listening to music. This includes games and such. However it will stop the music and take in coming calls. This may be changed by future operating system versions of the phones software. The other negative aspect is that at the base of the connection, that is where the MP3 player connects to the phone, it is slightly unsturdy. What I mean by this is that if you say, put the phone/player in your front pocket and go to sit down you will most likely disconnect the player from the Phone. However it does not break either of the components, I want to be very clear on this. You do not jeopardize the components functionality, you merely lose connection between the two.
Overall I love it and would recommend it to anyone.
Recommended:
Yes
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