MP3 Player “Be Smarter”

There are various functions of MP3 Player. As the memory capacity of 128MB is recently generalized and many functions are added, it can be used as a portable cassette record. The main products have the small size, pretty design and a portable (hanging on a neck).

▽Large Capacity 〓 MP3 Player which was consumed most until the last first half of the year was 32MB. The users used the memory extended card because it had the insufficient memory when recording the several songs. However, there is recently 128MB. MP3 Player (SMP-20) of Sharp Electronics, YP-30SB of Samsung Electronics, MF-PD365T2M of LG Electronics, MP-F60 of MPMAN and DA-500 of Hyunwon are all 128MB.

▽ Recording Function 〓 It mainly read the music file at the first, but it can record the music. The MPMAN product, Sharp product and Yep Series of Samsung Electronics can record the maximum 36 hours, 9 hours and 8 hours & 40 minutes respectively.

It provides the English contents positively to use as the language-learning tool. MF-PE500N6 of LG Electronics has the English studying file. Samsung Electronics gives the CD of YBM Sisa.com with the everyday English contents. Cowon System provides the contents free of charge when buying ‘I-Audio’ through partnership with ‘Wingish.com’. Especially, when using ‘Jet Speech’ produced by the company, it can store converting the character data of the books or newspapers into the audio file.

▽FM Radio 〓The user can record the good music while listening to the radio. It also can select the 20 channels. There are YP-700H of Samsung, MP-M700 of MPMAN, and CW200 of KOWON.

There is the variety of storing methods. The certain products can store the Window Media Audio (WMA) mode of MicroSoft, not MP3 mode. There are YP-700HB of Samsung and SMP-20 of Sharp.

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