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My first encouter with iRiver was when my brother bought the iFP180T or whatever, the Toblerone bar one was. I thought it was very nice for a flash player, intuitive navigation was the bright spot.
Soon, I found myself buying my first MP3 player which was the iFP790 and I enjoyed it. It's been really handy and did what it needed to do for the last 2 years. Except its 256mb capacity was starting to become a stretch. I needed a new DAP.
So I remember seeing the U10 and thinking how massive the thing was from the few shots I saw online. Didn't think much of it, but knew I was going to get an iriver. A few months passed, and I hear iriver is releasing the Clix. I was sceptical at first, but after finding Mistic River, and finding various reviews, I was impressed. Fortunately those U10 pictures were just optical illusions, with no objects of reference, so when I did see the pictures of the Clix held in a hand, I was very impressed at the small size.
So last night the package arrived and I love the clix. So far I have all my favorite "Recent Music" added in there, with album art. Except I cannot get Muse's album, Absolution, to get art.
The videos are great, I had everything from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Top Gear, to The Office. I then added some videos from Gametrailers.com for the morning commute to work. It was great, I didn't get a seat on the train, and usually don't. So luckily the night before, and this morning I got up to load some txt files of some news articles I wanted to read.
I was standing there, with one hand on portrait view reading the news. It was great, and people were looking. I was overjoyed. iriver rules, and there is just no other competition. The price is the equivalent to a 2gig Nano, and with the features it comes with, there's no doubt this is a steal.
The best aspects are the D-Click control scheme, it's very intuitive. I have large hands (or long fingers) so 1 hand control on portrait isn't too bad. It does everything I want. Although it'd be nice if there was UMS.
One thing I did find annoying was that I have mine on Custom EQ, and after upgrading to 1.11US, for a few songs, when I skip track, or the song is next on the list, you get the Flat EQ, then suddenly it changes to the Custom EQ, and you notice it. Very annoying and i'll have to bring that up with iriver. All things considered, I'm a very proud Clix owner.
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