1GB Waterproof MP3/PEDOMETER
by Oregon Scientific
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Manufacturer: Oregon ScientificBrand: Oregon Scientific
Edition: Electronics
Model: DMA1208011613001
Publisher: Oregon Scientific
Studio: Oregon Scientific
Music Label: Oregon Scientific
Product features:
- MP3, MP121/BLRR1G RED 1G WATERPROOF
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Customer Review: Best Functional MP3 Player - Period
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the best thought out mp3 player on the market period. Just load mp3s, set it on shuffle, and go on with your day - be it walking, running, swimming. I bought it for the distance/pedometer/stopwatch functions, called "sport" mode, which works well. And, well, waterproofing helps all things electronic in Seattle.
There are three different modes (music/mp3, FM, and sport) and the monochrome display uses three different backlight colors so you know what you are looking at. The battery length is good and the sound quality is solid, including a handful of preset equalizer settings to adjust to your preference.
In sport mode, the player's design is packed with nuanced features. One of the many really neat features is that the display can electronically flip itself upside down, which lets you glance at your distance, steps and time easily on your arm or waist. Other nifty features: an alarm (useful for long timed runs/laps), goal distance/step countdowns, an electronic metronom (an adjustable rhythm beep for pace/provides distance stats), regular headphones with adjustment ringlets (helps secure the wires from flapping around), metric and imperial/US measurement adjustment (good for marathon/triatholon training, laps, etc), and as mentioned below, the break away beltclip. (There's a BMI calculator but I never use it).
In music/mp3 mode, it is straight forward. The FM mode is simple as well and a nice addition (no AM).
You don't really need any software other than the device driver, though they supply you with MusicMatch Jukebox. It appears as a USB drive so you can just drag and drop mp3s onto the player.
The area that this product seemed to lack dealt with instructions. For example, the instructions don't say anything about setting the stride other than "correctly measuring distance depends on accurately setting the average length of an individual stride". Since I was replacing a pedometer, I knew to measure ten strides and divide it by ten to come up with an average and that you need to change it for jogging/running strides versus walking strides. However, if you don't do this sort of culumative averaging or setting changes, I could see someone being disappointed or confused.
As for the complaint that it turns off, I've noticed if I somehow bump 1) the power button hard, it will shut down or 3) the sport button, it will reset the pedometer and shut down. However, there is a button hold function that locks them from being accidently pressed and solves the problem. Again, this could have been addressed in the instructions more thoroughly.
If you use common sense and look at the instructions occasionally, you'll figure it out fast and become endeared to all nuanced features it offers even faster.
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