Big bang For your Buck!
Written: Sep 20 '00
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Pros: Cheap! compact.
Cons: plasticy feel, bad software.
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| Fanb0y's Full Review: Frontier NEX II (64 MB) MP3 Player |
It doesn't have all of the features, of some of the others, it's not as sleek looking as many of the new players, but it's puts out nice sound and is pretty durable. Which is a lot to say considering I bought it for $150.
Lets get right down to it, It's pretty cheesy looking, and the "plastic" feel of the case may disappoint some people, but it's right up there in durability, I've had mine for about 5 Mo. and dropped it many times during that time, it's still in one piece and playing.
Forget the neoprene case though talk about a waste of time, luckily the clip is right on the player and comes off if you want to put it in a pocket.
The player puts out nice sound and the adjustable bass and treble really help you tune the music to your taste, none of the silly presets. it has a randomize and program button, which is cool if your going to randomize less than 20 songs...whatever.
It fits in my shirt pocket, which is a big deal to me because very few headphone cords will comfortably reach down to my waist, this brings me to the headphones, talk about plain old suck. this is pretty standard of MP3 players, but these earbuds just made me want to throw up!
It has a Parallel port connection(not usb) and is much slower than I care for, the parallel causes some odd errors if you have the wrong settings in your computers bios.
My biggest gripe with the player comes from the horrible software they package with it. Talk about a totally worthless interface, you have no ability too select multiple songs from in the software, your best bet for adding songs is to open an explorer window and drag the songs you want into the program, then if it aborts while your downloading songs to your player all the songs that haven't been downloaded disappear from your list, grrr. The website is ok, but pitifully out of date they have been promising new "skins" for 4-5 months at least.
In a nutshell if you want a functional 64 meg player for under $200 dollars this is probably your best bet.
Recommended:
Yes
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