Product Description

8GB MP4 PLAYER BLACK

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55428 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: Black
• Brand: Meizu
• Model: DA-M4-08-MZ2
• Native resolution: 320 x 240
• Display size: 2.4

Features

• 2.4" TFT HI DEF SCREEN
• Plays video,audio,photo,FM, Text, games
• Aluminum alloy body
• Built-in rechargeable Li-ion battery, plays up to 20 hours
• True AVI Video, MP3, MP2, WMA, WAV, OGG audio files, JPG, BMP, GIF Photos, Slide Shows

Customer Reviews

Small and Mighty
This is thing SMALL, less than the size of a business card. But the screen is big enough (2.4 inches) and sharp enough to display photos and movies quite well, and it's even useful (in short doses) for reading text files!

As for the music playing, it sounds great, however, I don't find navigation and playlist organizing very easy.

Unlike the iPod, you don't need any special software to load songs and photos onto the M6, it's just drag and drop! (Special software is included for converting videos, which works well enough for me).

Also, unlike the iPod, you don't need a proprietary cable for the USB interface, it's a generic, which is great.

This is the best MP3 player I've had, and I love having my favorite photos and a few movies along with me on the road. Battery life is good, so far about 18 to 20 hours for music, I haven't tried draining it (yet) in video mode.

Great Player
This is a really great DAP.

The sound quality is amazing, I have a set of $300 headphones which often causes problems because the last two mp3 players that I have purchased did not have enough power output to run them properly. The m6 sounds absolutely spectacular (it also has a custom 8 band equalizer which you can adjust to your preference)

The interface takes a bit of getting used to but it is relatively intuitive. It is not quite as easy as the windows pmc system in the Toshiba gigabeat or Zune, not bad though.

The new firmware supports album art and greatly improves the overall functionality.

The m6 comes bundled with video conversion software which will shrink your Divx files down to a more manageable size for the device. The screen is sharp enough to be able to read subtitles on movies.

Overall I am very happy with it

I'm in love with Meizu!
In general I was very very impressed with the quality of the Meizu -- sound, functionality, features, form, etc. But instead of repeating what other people said, I'll try to be original here. I bought this instead of an ipod & others for 5 reasons:

1) I like the mini-USB interface versus other proprietary ones (and btw USB 2 uploading/downloading is super fast). If you forget, lose or break your USB cable at least it's easy to find another one.

2) The slide pad doesn't make my fingers/thumbs sore (I especially don't like twirling my thumb in circles like you have to do on the ipod). The slide pad was a total surprise to me. I love the dual function, which I discovered by accident. It will adjust volume or go up and down the menu by sliding your thumb, toes, or whatever you use, but if you tap and hold near the top or bottom of the pad and hold it will scroll continuously until you let go! Take that ipod! Tapping the center of the pad is the same as pressing Enter. If you press the pad fully then you can go to previous/next track, go back/forward (Enter) in a menu or song. That's 8 different functions built into 1 pad!

3) Screen size is big relative to the total size of the unit. Videos are smooth, bright and clear enough to read subtitles. Color reproduction is spectacular! Same goes for viewing pictures.

4) FM radio. Scanning FM stations is easy, but you only get all the stations when you get good reception of course. As I expected, the weak stations in my area didn't list, but you can go up and down the frequencies until you find them and add them on. The frequency range also allows you to travel to other parts of the world and catch stations that are normally outside of the US spectrum. If I can't get exactly what I want I can plug into the computer and edit the text file to add the weak stations and even put their names. Sweet!

5) FM & voice recording. Very simple to use and the sound is very good. There are 3 quality level settings that were easy to configure. As for voice recording, pickup is good for distant sounds and not too sensitive. There was a little static-like sound when I used the high quality setting for voice recording, but I think it was catching interference from nearby electronics.

Aside from the above, I also like that it's upgradable. The first thing I did when I got it was go to Meizu's website and download a firmware upgrade, which allows me to view text in Japanese, Chinese, etc. since I have a lot of Japanese music. I tried out most of its features and haven't found any quirks yet, but even if I do, as even Meizu admits they exist, I don't think I'll be disappointed at all.

There's one or two negatives: The first thing you should do with the CD-Rom that comes with the miniPlayer is throw it away and download BADAK Video Conversion instead. Meizu offers 2 software online (one of them was on the CD-ROm) and neither of them worked on my Vista laptop. The other is that I wish it would display the id3 tags on the song menu list instead of the file name. So you better be sure you correctly name your audio files or organize them into folders. Also be sure to create playlists. It's probably easier to create playlists using Windows Media Player and upload them onto your Meizu or just create your own playllist text file. You can always edit playlists that are already on your Meizu using your computer. Other than that I only wish it was bluetooth capable, but maybe that's wishful thinking at this point.

In conclusion the Meizu is jam packed with features and is able to do what you want it to do and do it well, provided you know how to do it. iPod and iTunes were really made for people who don't know the basics of navigating a computer file system and edit things like playlists. If you are more computer savvy then the Meizu is for you!