I love my Neuros. Sure, it's big, and somewhat inconvenient. So what? I go to work with my backpack (usually empty except for wallet, umbrella, and the Neuros) so I'm not at all inconvenienced by it. The battery easily lasts a whole day of use - starting with when I leave my house to catch my bus, listening all day, and then getting home by bus. It still has a decent charge at that point, and I recharge overnight.
20 gb is a lot - my entire music collection is just shy of 11gb, so I have a nice removable drive (plug in and use) with 9gb free, great for putting movies or TV episodes or whatever else I may want to take with me. It has good recording, so if I'm jamming on my guitar and get a good tune, I can just record it and listen to it later. It has built-in FM broadcasting, so should I record something good, I can blast it over my friend's car stereo (or just listen to good music). It records from the radio (30 seconds) and then when you synchronize, it recognizes the song and tells you what it is. There are 5 convenient buttons on the side for setting favourites.
The interface is ok, being big on technology I don't find it hard to use or anything, but I could see some people having hangups over using the directional pad + play button. Originally it didn't have an Album - Artist - Album view, but that got added in pretty quickly. The community is great, and the fact that the devs are really listening and doing what people ask is awesome.
Overall it's a great-priced mp3 player for those who don't care about what's hot, fashionable, whatever, and don't need some tiny player. It fits in my pocket just fine when I don't have my backpack, but I usually do so it's irrelevant.
Slashdot Mirror
Had to register for this thread.
I love my Neuros. Sure, it's big, and somewhat inconvenient. So what? I go to work with my backpack (usually empty except for wallet, umbrella, and the Neuros) so I'm not at all inconvenienced by it. The battery easily lasts a whole day of use - starting with when I leave my house to catch my bus, listening all day, and then getting home by bus. It still has a decent charge at that point, and I recharge overnight.
20 gb is a lot - my entire music collection is just shy of 11gb, so I have a nice removable drive (plug in and use) with 9gb free, great for putting movies or TV episodes or whatever else I may want to take with me. It has good recording, so if I'm jamming on my guitar and get a good tune, I can just record it and listen to it later. It has built-in FM broadcasting, so should I record something good, I can blast it over my friend's car stereo (or just listen to good music). It records from the radio (30 seconds) and then when you synchronize, it recognizes the song and tells you what it is. There are 5 convenient buttons on the side for setting favourites.
The interface is ok, being big on technology I don't find it hard to use or anything, but I could see some people having hangups over using the directional pad + play button. Originally it didn't have an Album - Artist - Album view, but that got added in pretty quickly. The community is great, and the fact that the devs are really listening and doing what people ask is awesome.
Overall it's a great-priced mp3 player for those who don't care about what's hot, fashionable, whatever, and don't need some tiny player. It fits in my pocket just fine when I don't have my backpack, but I usually do so it's irrelevant.