No, it does not have a recording function. Or an FM tuner. Or a built-in
GPS. Or Voice Over. It just plays MP3 and WMA files. That's all it does.
It never ceases to amaze me how people expect so much for so little. For
$10, you're not getting an IPod clone. Just a simple, no-frills MP3 player
that happens to be blind accessible.
Gerald
----- Original Message -----
From: "slcb" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] More About Coby MP3 Player
Hey! that's quite interesting. does it have recording and saving functions
also?
Samson.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Levy" <[email protected]>
To: "blind-computing" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 8:34 PM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] More About Coby MP3 Player
Well, it turns out that the Coby MP200 MP3 player may be blind accessible
after all. I did a little research, and discovered that the Coby MP200
is similar in design to the discontinued Creative Zen Stone that caused
such a stir in the blind community when it was first introduced a couple
of years ago. Like the Zen Stone, the Coby MP200, which is about the
size of a pack of chewing gum, has a concentric ring surrounding a
Play-Stop/Power button on its front panel. Pressing and holding it for 5
seconds turns the unit on. Pressing the top of the ring increases the
volume, and pressing the bottom of the ring decreases the volume.
Pressing the right side of the ring skips to the next track, while
pressing and holding it scans rapidly forward through the current track.
Pressing the left side of the ring skips to the previous track,, while
pressing and holding it scans rapidly backward through the current track.
That's it. It has no display screen or navigation menus to dea
l with, just a LED power indicator. Unlike the Zen Stone, the Coby unit
has no shuffle play mode, so you can only listen to tracks in the order
they were downloaded, which, presumably, can be easily accomplished using
simple Copy and Pate command. With 2gb of memory, it has twice the
storage capacity of the Zen Stone, and as an added bonus, it can be used
as a flash drive for data storage. It plugs directly into a USB port,
but also includes a separate USB cable as well as a set of earbuds. It
runs on a single replaceable AAA battery (included) which is said to
provide up to 8 hours of playing time, rather than a sealed,
nonreplaceable rechargeable battery, which, for me, is a big plus. So I
went ahead and ordered one from J&R. For ten bucks with free shipping,
how can you go wrong?
http://www.jr.com/coby/pe/CBY_MP2002G/?JRSource=chemail.bfweekend.11142009
Gerald
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