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October 11, 2005

Review: JVC XA-MP101W mp3 player

Pocket-lint has a review on JVC's players:

"JVC has launched two players with the same fairly small casing. The JVC XA-MP101W and the JVC XA-MP51. The XA-MP51 is silver and comes with a 512MB Flash Memory that stores up to approximately 120 MP3 or 250 WMA files, while the XA-MP101 has a 1GB capacity can contain about 250 MP3 or 500 WMA files and is available in white.

Within the space of half a credit card that is 1cm thick, JVC has still managed to cram in a four-line dot matrix display, the memory and space for an AAA battery which JVC states you can get 17 hours of playback on.

A fixed-level audio line out lets you share the love without getting headphone feedback and you can transfer MP3, WMA and WMA-DRM files to and from the player via USB2.0. There is even an FM radio on board.

At £130 this is woefully expensive compared to the competition. It might have a radio, and four-line display, but if you are going to struggle to find the right track because there is no automatic menu system then there doesn’t see much point in having one."

Posted by mp3fan at October 11, 2005 9:58 AM