Measuring a monstrous 102 x 66 x 20mm this 20GB festering mess has a bigger footprint than a 20GB colour iPod and is fatter than the already portly 60GB edition. At eight hours, the battery life is hysterically and equates with where the industry was four years ago. Format support is rubbish, playing only MP3 and DRM protected WMA files, while Jpegs, bitmaps and gifs can be shown on the 2in screen, but why someone would want to frame their holiday snaps with something so horribly brick-like is solely a question for their councillor to guess.
Naturally, the control panel is a complete afterthought with the play/pause, fast forward/backward, up/down and menu buttons squashed down one side. Just what good are teeny scroll buttons when trying to slide your way around 5,000 tracks?
Given that only Apple can get away without supplying an FM tuner in its players, Ministry of Sound has decided to omit one from its stink pile, but you do get a docking station (word is it’s a vomit bag).
Ministry of Sound’s ‘Pathetic’ MP3 Player
Popularity: 1% [?]
I take it you don’t like this one too much Patrick!!
It looks like the biggest waste of technology I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t agree more with the conclusions of the review. It’s more expensive than the iPod, has fewer features, and is more bulky. It’s sold by only one retailer: the dreaded Argos, so you can assume from that what you will!