Overall this a great player with many capabilities. The FM tuner, voice recorder, pics, and video are specs that everyone knows but it comes together nicely here. Replacable battery is always a plus.

Sound is great. If you don’t like what you have you can manually adjust the equalizer settings. There are many to choose from. You might want to invest in some higher quality headphones though. The factory set isn’t bad at all, but you could go better.

I’ve heard a lot of complaining about the scroll wheel and the buttons. The wheel is easy to use and DOES NOT JAM as some other tend to think. Yea the Ipod click wheel is nice.. but this isn’t an ipod is it..? When pushing buttons, it seems that your pushes does not register but it does. No issues there.

Battery Life is great. Running through the menu, playlists, and all the other functions obvioulsy drains the battery but not significantly. It’ll last for at least 9 hours depending on usage.

Ease of use: You can’t go wrong with this player, and it is incredibly straight forward. The installation cd gives you a user manual just in case you have any questions but you can figure it out yourself by just running through the menus.

File transfer and media converter is straight forward. To easily create playlists the cd will update your windows media player, so make sure you install it. Media player tends to be moody at times, but once you start dragging and dropping your files, its easy.

Just something to point out. An earlier review said that the boot time was around 5 minutes or so. That’s totally exaggerated. I have a little under 6GB of USED space and it takes about 10 seconds max to boot.

Obviously, you should take care of your player. Buying a case is a best bet even though it comes with a slim fabric case. Take care of the player and it’ll take care of you.