iriver Spinn

The Pricey Iriver Spinn Suffers Lack Of Grace and Simplicity

Iriver’s Spinn (4GB, 8GB) is a slick-looking portable media player with a large, touch-sensitive screen. Although it looks better, with Spinn important in some areas. As quiet and is a touch screen, there is no reason to put one on the Spinn-not much to do except playing surface with the fingers draggle smudges. Solid support from the special file iriver products here, but the grace and control interface, found on the clix is not good. That said, it rivals the quality of the Zune 120GB and the Samsung P2. You need to select the mode you want to connect to your computer, for example. Bundled earbuds that can not be Apple-esque again: subpar-white and hard. The Spinn also supports stereo Bluetooth, which akan A2DP lets you listen wirelessly through compatible headphones. The player can handle MP3, WMA, ASF, and APE for audio, along with Ogg and FLAC, lossless codec that should please fans. Spinn which can also be used to view TXT files.

When you press the screen to select the artist or the name of the menu items, the player vibrate. Cover Flow but the pictures and album art, and the Spinn’s UI using words. In addition, although the control cylinder is an innovative, easy to exceed your target with it, and touch screen does not offer the ability to move (unlike the iPod touch’s) in all of that just tap and select. The Spinn does not rely entirely on the touch screen. A key switch, the menu-button again, and a microphone for voice recorder Spinn all located at the top of the unit, while the power button and volume rocker occupy the left. USB port (which is used for charging and loading the media) in the left bottom of the device, and the headphone jack on the bottom right. Controls that are easy once you know where they are located, and the touch screen is surprisingly smudge-resistant as well. Unfortunately, knowing which input method is used at a time can be challenging. All in all, who would benefit from the navigation a bit more intuitive; may even be improved if the spinner is the only input device.

Although the buttons and knobs, the Spinn may be the net, sleekest-looking player on the market. But if anything, the Spinn refines Apple’s celebrated design. Neatly in one song-the Spinn is a feature you can set the A and B in and outside the loop to create points quickly. Spinn also has a good selection preset EQ, and five-band equalizer can be adjusted.

So, what redeeming features?
Photo-especially taken in the 16:9 aspect ratio, looks beautiful in the Spinn’s screen. The same is true for the video-the bright colors and sharp. As usual, the real problem is the quality of the video file-excellent screen can not do much for low-quality files. Spinn the extraordinary interest is a device that looks happy, amazing screen, and high-quality audio and video playback are sure to win many admirers
FM and voice recorder are the two features that need to use touch-screen tap on the icon to start recording and the end result and the file that is stored under an icon in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen. You can set the recording quality, which is a practical option, and both work intuitively Recorder.

The Spinn is rated to play back about 25 minutes and 5 hours audio or video in one bill. Video playback and view photos circulating in large thanks to measure the quality of the Spinn’s 480-by-272-resolution display. Color seems to leap from the screen, and the smooth video playback in 30 seconds per frame. That supports the Spinn,-MP3, WMA, Ogg, ASF, FLAC, APE (decode), audio files, MPEG-4, WMV, and Xvid video formats and WMA (encode) Bit Rate – MP3, WMA 8Kbps – 320Kbps, Ogg Up to Q10 Video Bit Rate – 23 kbps – 512 kbps JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, Image File Types 480×272 (WQVGA) at 30 fps ID3 V1 Tag, ID3 V2 2.0, ID3 V2 3.0, ID3 V2 4.0 20Hz – 20kHz Audio headphone Output Frequency Range Power – 17mW (16 ohms) at Max. A volume weighted 90dB Signal to Noise Ratio Power Supply – USB / Battery 3.7V 950mA, Li-Polymer 1 EA (Internal) Dimensions – 99.3×51.0×10.7mm Weight – 2.5 ounces (70 grams) and BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG and image files, Full Touchscreen 3.3 “AMOLED Display / WMA FM Recording / Voice Recording / 20-Pin Connector. The included Spinn installation CD (which is small, so it will not work with slot-loading optical drives) comes with two programs for managing and transferring media to your device: iRiver Plus 3 and Windows Media Player 11.

Iriver has impressed in the past to the mercy of the clix, but the Spinn strikes organized as bad, with a touch screen that does not need to exist and the user interface that requires some serious work. And prices high kicker. A 4GB running Spinn, but you can get the 8GB iPod touch with double the capacity, a larger screen, Wi-Fi capability, and application specific. If one player could make fashion-conscious iPod users jump ship, then this one, which may be the one digital music device that has more aesthetic appeal of the iPod.