Typical price: £169
What is it: Flash-based MP3 and video player with DAB radio
What we think: Terrific player with great sound quality, but hard navigation for beginners
Average user rating
4.7
mediocre
Average user rating from 3 users
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Cowon iAudio D2 DMB (DAB) user reviews
November 16, 2007
Posted by: jerryt
"Fundamentally flawed"
What I like:
Sound quality
What I don't like:
DAB and FM radio functions useless
Review:
When I set up the DAB fromm scan it found 51 radio stations. None of them would play for more than a milisecond. The reason being that the firmware did not support more than 40 stations. They then brought out an update which was time consuming and fiddly to load. This only supported up to 50 stations so still useless. If it were possible to delete a couple of stations from the can result then it would not matter so much, but it would not. A further upgrade was promised for the end of October. The suppliers told me that one was produced but that it did not work. No promise of any proper update to enable the DAB to be used in areas where there are more than 50 stations.
The FM scan just produces a list of frequencies and does not identify the radio station. Chanign from one (once you have found it) to another is therefore very haphazzard.
Don't buy it. It has not been field tested or properly thought through. If you want good mp3 then buy a cheaper produced without the claimed radion performance.
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