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iriver SPINN 8 GB Video MP3 Player (Silver)

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iriver SPINN 8 GB Video MP3 Player (Silver)

(14 customer reviews)

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Features

8 GB capacity for about 2,000 songs
25 hours of audio or 5 hours of video on a single charge
3.3-inch, 262,000-color AMOLED display with 480 x 272 (QVGA) resolution
Supports MP3, ASF, WMA, APE, OGG, and FLAC audio formats; Xvid SP, MPEG-4 SP, and WMV9 SP video formats
1-year limited warranty

Description

SPINN offers a unique, innovative design with a high-quality magnesium-shelled body. The interface is customizable, and the player is packed with features such as built-in Bluetooth, photo and video playback, voice recording, flash games and an FM tuner with recording. SPINN maintains iriver’s signature innovative design incorporating the new SPINN System Technology, a unique spinning cylinder scroll wheel on the side. The user has multiple options in navigating the device and can control the player using either the unique spinning spindle interface, or the large 3.3-inch touch screen. SPINN offers untouchably utmost and clearest picture quality on large 3.3-inch screeen with 480x272 resolution, backed by the technology of AMOLED. Haptic response, a reactive vibration feedback, has been added to touch screen as well as SPINN wheel. SPINN comes with Bluetooth connection for wireless audio listening and supports Bluetooth 2.0 wireless headset. SPINN introduces metallic silver Magnesium body for a lighter and stronger build as well as a premium looks. Music files SPINN supports most popular audio formats MP3, ASF, WMA, APE, OGG and FLAC – both lossless file formats providing abundant base and three-dimensional sounds with a 7-band custom EQ, SRS WOW HD. Video files SPINN with 3.3-inch QVGA AMOLED (480x272) resolution supports Xvid SP, MPEG-4 SP and WMV9 SP of 30 frames per second. FM radio with 20 presets with FM radio recording. The radio features 20 programmable presets and is easy to tune using the SPINN interface. Photo Viewer supports JPG, BMP, PNG, and GIF photo files and can display it individually or in a slideshow. Text Viewer. Voice Recording. Flash Games

Product Details

Product Length:	3.9 inches
Product Width:	0.4 inches
Product Height:	2.0 inches
Product Weight:	0.45 pounds
Package Length:	9.6 inches
Package Width:	4.1 inches
Package Height:	1.2 inches
Package Weight:	0.5 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 14 reviews

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 3.5

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15 of 17 found the following review helpful:

Not quite ready for Prime Time Dec 16, 2008 By D. Brown "4D"
I've got the 8gb SPINN, and have had it long enough to write a long review on my blog (www.4dthinker.blogspot.com). I've also got an iPod Touch and a Samsung P2 for comparison. The SPINN's firmware is still buggy. Using Bluetooth (limited to headphone pairing only) the sound drops out, slows down, or gets choppy after 10 minutes of use or if trying to use any other function (photo or text) on the SPINN. It's as if bluetooth steals all the SPINN's processor cycles. The interface is limited to one font, and that font is hard to see on many backgrounds. There is a Fonts folder, so hopefully there are more fonts available. While playing music the album art only shows up as a tiny image on the big screen. Very poor utilization of the screen. In photos there is no rotate options, and trying to zoom any photo gives me an error message.

The SPINN is firmware upgradeable, and hopefully there will be an upgrade soon. There are a few THEMES available, but none work well with the single font supplied.

15 of 18 found the following review helpful:

The best kept secret in Video/Audio Players Dec 27, 2008 By A. Octavio
I just can't believe how many reviews of this product jump over the obvious facts. And I mean professional reviews, not the ones here on Amazon. The screen is simply amazing to look at! Forget the technical details like it is an OLED screen and it only has thousands of colors, just look at it! Watch a video on it! It plays normal .avi files without any conversion. On top of that it works acceptably as a podcast player.

The only negative thing is the lack of knowledge about this product. Even the company seems clueless about it, it says in irs site that it requires Windows, but, by changing a setting, you can use it with Linux or Mac OS X without a problem. The software is for Windows, but the player works. It isn't perfect, the interface could use some improvement and I have lost any hope of finding fonts, themes, and games for the SPINN, as no one seems to be paying attention to it. Which is a pity, a world where there are only iPods as Mp3 players is as sad as a world where there is only Windows as an OS.

If you do not like the iPod, give the SPINN a try.

5 of 5 found the following review helpful:

Worthy premium rival to iPod Nano Dec 01, 2008 By The Folded Space
I haven't made long term use of this elegant little player, but I'm pleased so far. The design itself owes much to those created by Dieter Rams for Braun (and promoted on the iriver worldwide site). The AMOLED screen has very excellent black levels, but it can only display 262k colors.

The interface is simple to use, though I hardly bothered with the touch screen. You can avoid finger prints on the screen.

I wish that the entire case was magnesium alloy. Most of it is except for the plastic back. Also, the port cover is a little flimsy. This wouldn't be a problem, but there is no alternate port to connect it for charging.

3 of 3 found the following review helpful:

Poor customer support Sep 01, 2009 By R. Kohout
This is a nice product with decent features, good sound, etc. However, ours is defective and iriver has refused to fix it.

When the battery on the SPINN runs dow, the date resets to sometime in 2005. Not a huge problem in and of itself, but it has the side effect of confusing Rhapsody, so that none of the licensed content will play. It was very difficult to figure out how to fix this problem: relicensing certainly didnt help. nor did formatting from windows or Rhapsody. iriver support happily blamed Rhapsody for this problem and was no help. Eventually I figured out how to use the SPINN reformat capability (which I found is a VERY unintuitive place) to format the drive. A couple hours later, after all the songs were reloaded, we were good to go - for a few days, when it happened again.

I contacted iriver, who admitted that this was not normal operation, but explained that if I charged it enough I could live with it. I asked to have the SPINN repaired, and after verifying that I was under warrantee, they sent me an RMA. I mailed the SPINN in, waited two weeks, and got it back with a note that they had changed the settings to change the discharge rate! When the battery dies - and it has - I still need to reformat the SPINN.

Two weeks later, iriver has yet to answer any of three emails I have sent them asking them to honor their warrantee.

Stay away!!!

3 of 3 found the following review helpful:

Problem... Jun 14, 2009 By Dong Hyun Won "Dong"
Ok. So my mom has one and we always have a problem with this. Every time the battery dies out or is completely drained it will not turn back on. Like we tried charging it and everything, but it doesn't even recognize the charger or whatsoever. It just will not work once the battery is completely drained. This is not the first time either,we've sent it twice to the manufacturer because of this problem and today it happened again. Although my mom should just charge more often instead of letting it die like that. THIS SHOULD NOT HAPPEN. Plus i don't like their service either, they take forever and asked us the same question over and over again. I don't know if this has happened to others, but it has happened to us many times..

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