Nike Sport 128 MB MP3 Player

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Manufacturer: Nike Sport
Price at amazon.com: New from $82.49

List price $199.99



Product Features:

• Designed for movement
• No-look buttons
• Skip free audio
• Smart wire management
• Wearable and splash proof

Product Description:

Athletes don't just listen to music. They use it. Introducing Portable Sport Audio by Nike and Philips, the worldwide leaders in sport and technology. This digital audio player is specifically designed for runners and riders. It's wearble, skip free, durable, simple to operate and splash proof. It features the most innovative cord management ever. Plus, it sounds great!

Average Customer Rating:

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Comment: Perfect MP3 player to use while running Rating:
The Nike-Philips psa[128 mp3 player is perfect to use while running or working out. It's sweatproof, straps comfortably onto your arm, doesn't get in the way, holds about 2 hours of near CD-quality music, and plays back music skip-free like a charm.

The headphones are a compromise between great quality sound versus letting you hear that car coming up behind you. If this compromise doesn't suit you, you can always use a different set headphones you like better.

The player uses flash memory for the firmware, which means the player is upgradeable. As with any flash-memory device, if you are not careful about how you connect or disconnect the player to your computer, you can corrupt the flash memory and the player will stop working. The Nike-Philips website ... provides detailed instructions on how to restore the flash memory if this happens.

The reason I rated this player a 4 instead of a 5 is because it doesn't have a couple of features that might surprise you. First, there is no shuffle playback option. Second, while you can change tracks before the music starts to play, you can't skip tracks once playing has begun. I understand that Nike-Philips opted to omit these features in order to keep the unit simple and reliable. In any case, neither of these limitations is a problem for me, but some people might wish that these features were available.

The MusicMatch software that comes with the player is a decent MP3 music manager. Not everyone likes it, but the upgrade available for purchase is quite a bit better than the older, limited version that comes on the installation CD.

Bottom line: This MP3 player is perfect for use at the gym or while running. I personally use it every day and absolutely love it.

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Comment: Facny design, poor performance Rating:
I have had several MP3 players. This one is perfect for exercise, but it doesn't last long. First, its software installation caused me longer than other products to install. Not to mention its driver isn't Microsoft approved. So I spent some time to make it work on Win XP.(after searching information on websites to locate problems) 2. Phillip doesn't provide enough customer support even though Phillip made it. You'll get email from Phillip saying "go to find Nike, we can't help you." -- and Nike says "We don't make electronics."
3.its parts will be lost easily even though they look durable. BE CAREFUL magnet parts. You'll lose them on the first day of use if you don't pay attention. 4. You'll have to pay more if you want to use its music software after you install it on your computer. All you get is basic functions while other MP3 player softwares provide full functions.And this software is still slow on my advanced computer, also hard to understand its functions. The only good thing I like about this MP3 player is its design, but it lasted only few months-- then it died ...

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Comment: junk, junk, junk Rating:
Got it a year and a half ago and threw it in the garbage yesterday.

Over the year and a half it froze often and required reformatting and re-downloading of songs - a real pain when you're at the gym and realize the thing ain't going to work, and will also require time at home messing with it to get it operating again. Then last week the thing just froze up and wouldn't even re-format and take new songs. Instead of calling customer support, I went a bought an I-Pod - then went running.

Posted at November 11, 2003 07:59 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)