Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6853 in Consumer Electronics
• Size: 8GB
• Color: Silver
• Brand: Latte Communications
• Model: ice PMP Player: 8GB
• Dimensions: .40" h x 2.10" w x 4.00" l, 2.00 pounds
• Display size: 2.8

Features

• Sleek, silver portable media player with built-in external speaker and built-in FM transmitter
• Crystal-clear 2.8-inch QVGA LCD with 320 x 240 resolution
• Supports AVI, MPEG, WMV, FLV, RM, RMVB video; MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC, AAC audio
• Stores up to 2,000 MP3 songs or up to 24 full-length movies
• Includes FM radio, voice recorder, FM transmitter, and memory expansion via microSD slot

Amazon.com Product Description
Indulge in your media library with the Latte Ice. This 8 GB personal media player boasts a crystal-clear 2.8-inch QVGA display with a 320 x 240 resolution, a built-in speaker, a built-in FM transmitter, an FM radio, and a microSD slot for memory expansion. Stay entertained no matter how far you stray.

Indulge in your media library with the Latte Ice. View Larger.

Take your video, music, images, and more anywhere with the sleek, stylish player. View larger.

Features microSD memory card slot for expanded memory options. View larger.

MP3 Player
The Ice supports MP3, APE, FLAC, AAC, and WMA audio files, and gives you up to 8 hours of uninterrupted playback on a single charge. Dial in a custom EQ setting or use one of the seven equalization presets (Normal, 3D, Rock, Pop, Classic, Bass, Jazz). If you want to change things up a bit, or tune into the FM TV broadcast at the gym, just call up one of the 30 FM radio presets.

Video Player
Always have access to your favorite shows, movies, and pictures. The Ice supports direct play without conversion with AVI, WMV, FLV, RM, RMVB files, and you can enjoy up to 4 hours of video on a single charge. The 2.8-inch screen is also a great way to share your photos, and makes navigating your files a breeze.

FM Transmitter
You've seen it: the clunky FM transmitter in your buddy's car, allowing him to tune into his MP3 player. Latte saw it too, and decided to make it part of the package. No need for external transmitters here--the Ice can transmit an FM signal anywhere, anytime, allowing you to tune in your car or home stereo to your favorite songs on the Ice.

Voice Recording
Keep track of random great ideas, grab lectures and meetings for later reference, or record whatever tickles your fancy with the included voice recorder. Capture audio through the built-in microphone in WAV format.

External Expandable Memory
If you fill up your 8 Gigs too quickly, the Ice includes a microSD memory card (up to 16 GB) slot. Keep media on separate cards and pop them in on the fly for endless options.

What's in the Box
Latte Communications Ice 8 GB Video MP3 Player, stereo earphones, USB cable, manual, warranty card.

Customer Reviews

LOVE IT !!!!
Super beautiful in ALL respects. Some quirks exist but easy to accept.
FM radio is amazing and recording off air easy and clear but you must use earphones or headset for FM since they utilize that for the antenna. So you can not turn on the FM and stick it in your pocket and use built in speaker to listen to FM radio.
Instructions not written by American so some interpretation necessary to understand some things. Instructions say ' mini SD' card for expansion but even this site uses ' micro' and ' mini' like they are interchangeable. Will buy expansion card when I figure out what fits.
Warning included about not forcing the USB connection all the way into the machine.. " A gentle half way ... is enough". Same with 3.5mm plug- has to be placed part way in to have stereo.
Has two ' ON ' switches. One on side with marking different ( has >>>>>> ) from what is shown in instructions. It must be on then push ' play/pause switch for several seconds to turn on. Off can be accomplished with just the play/pause switch on the front.
In the ' tech details' Amazon description says ' supports AVI'... when you get the Latte the instructions explain that you must use the software they provide to ' convert' your AVI before sending it through the mini Firewire port... So a computer is needed for the conversion as compared to being able to record directly from a DV camera using a double ended mini Firewire cable.
It arrived in two days. I have only had it a few days and have not tried to access all the features...but the ones I have used are really nice...and for the price..no competition that I know of.
Edit/Update: In addition to the internal memory a MINI SD flash card slot is at the top. This will only accept a REGULAR MINI SD card... IE, will not accept HDSD mini card. This limits your portable card to 2GB. Not a problem to me but wanted people to know this to avoid hassle. I use a Canon 830 minidv video camera to film, you can choose to capture to the minidv tape or to a 8GB ( in my case ) HCSD card. For speed I set the minidv to card, shoot, pull card and place into usb reader and upload to computer file with shortcut on desktop ( latteicebefore), start avi converter supplied with latte ice. Works FAST AND EASY. Send to file with shortcut on desktop named (latteiceafter). Download that file using same usb reader to the Mini SD card with SD adapter. Take out mini card and install in top of latte ice. First time took 20 minutes. Practice will make it very fast. If capturing to minidv tape download will be at real time.. example.. 20 minutes filming equals 20 minutes of download time. So SD card / Mini SD card combo is way faster. Not sure the battery lasts as long as they claim. Screen color and sharpness are amazing. 8gb latte comes with silicon wrap which is very nice. I bought a 2 GB latte ice also and it did not come with it. The ' holographic ' sound demo is amazing also.

Acceptable
It is acceptable and works well enough. The battery charges through plugin adapter or usb cable, so there are options. The mounts as a removable storage device so drag and drop of your music, videos, pictures, text documents is easy. The SD card slot is a nice feature that works with out any issues so far. And the sound quality is good as well. Overall it is a decent product that does the main functions well enough.

The good.
-MP3 performance is good.
-Movie playback is decent for the screen size.
-Battery is easy to charge and has long life.

The Neutral
-The buttons are ok, they don't feel cheap but they are stiff and have a clear click. Probably a trade off of being too easy to press to avoid accidents.
-The FM Radio is nice to have, but at least with the supplied headphones it only comes out of one side. This may be related to a stereo setting under the system setting for radio, but even if that is the case, a device like this should be able to put a mono signal out both sides.
-The headphone jack is tight. Make sure it is pushed in all the way or you will get the above indication of only one side working.
-As with most of these devices video must be converted to play on it. Software is included to run on windows to do this for you. The documentation didn't list the video requirements so us non-windows users would be able to recreate our videos to what it needs. I probably should have waited till I got home to evaluate the output file to write this review, but that being said if you have access to a windows system you can run the converter on you can evaluate that output file to create your own on the OS of your choice.

The Bad
-While it has several options on how to sort your music or video it does not have a playlist function. This can be worked around by setting up folders that have what you want in them and then telling the device to play in sequence the folder or randomize it as you would a playlist. I consider this a negative because it feels very mechanical design, it works but in the digital age is a playlist that hard to include?
-The "ebook" support is for text only, no PDFs. Since all of my "ebooks" are PDF or html text based seems a bit of a wasted feature.
-You can view pictures but it does not have a zoom or rotate function. Again not something that is a must have, but if you are going to let it display pictures is it that hard to let you zoom in on them?

The main reason I wanted this was for an MP3 player, with the option to play some videos. For that purpose this does do the job and I haven't ran into any great quality concerns. The headphones are suspect but I don't expect included headphones to be worth much anyway. The FM radio was a big plus for me giving this a try and besides the annoyance of 1 speaker, it is acceptable.

For the cost of this I would recommend it. There are better devices if you want to spend more, but this isn't a rip off if this is the price range you are looking at.

Great gift
Sound: Good, especially 3D sound when watching movies
Video quality: large screen size, perfect for my recorded lectures
Price: Much cheaper than the iPod and Zune
Easy to Use: no software installation
Customer Support: 1 year warranty and they replaced the units right away
Earphone: 3.5" jack allows me to use my old B&O headphones

Overall: Good gift item for non-techie users