Coby MP828-8G 8 GB 2.8-Inch Video MP3 Player (Black) (Discontinued by manufacturer)

First off, I gave this item five starts because, for the price, it's worth eveyr one. Here's my take.1. Don't expect an iPod. People give this item two stars because they have unrealistic expectations. It's costing you less than $40.00. Don't expect an iPod or Zune in quality. That being said, there great qualities and some duds in this gizmo. Positives first.2. The camera has three resolutions, and all of them are what they say: 640, 1280, and 1600 dpi. The camera is only .3 (point three) megapixels, so the higher resolutions are interpolted, but the camera is actually not bad for the price. Colors are a bit dull, but so what. I don't think anyone is going to be recording family memories with it. There is also a 5, 10, or 20 second delay timer.3. Video. Great for the price. Resoluitons are 176, 352, and 640dpi. As the resolution goes up, the frame rate goes down. At 640, the device delivers about 10 frames pers second. I didn't even know this HAD video. I knew it had a camera, but the video was a surprise. Again, not bad for 40 bucks.4. Radio is mono, but you still have one. You have to adjust the stations by hand one tenth at a time, but then you can save them as favorites.5. Music is itemized by Artist, Albums, Genres, and favorites, but you have to load the songs with the meta-informat0in in the files or else it will just alphabetize the songs for you.6. It reads text (and possibly pdf) files. Load up your .txt files and you can read them on the screen, though the text size is somewhat unclear and I found no way to adjust the font size. The device says "ebook" but I don't know if it will open and read actual efiles such as from Amazon or Borders, etc.7. Photos are slow. ALl of the photos you have in the device have to become icons before you can look at any of them, so keep the file numbers low or use only low resolutions. The higher resolution photos in the device by default when it's delivered slow things down, so, if you don't absolutely need them to trick you friends and family that you took them, delete them. Each one can be deleted, or else you can only delete them ALL, not in individually selected batches. Mount the device in your computer via USB to delete the photos in batches more quickly.8. The explorer funtion, for deleting (and moving by copying) files.9. There is a calendar, but you have to actually set it so that it displays the correct day and month. Strangely, setting the date is in Day/Month/Year format, but the actaul DISPLAYED date is in month/day/year format on the screen.10. Setting the clock is easy and dislays correctly.11. Ditch the crumby headphones. Your professional headphones will deliver the music from a device that does a pretty good job of converting to digital to analog for your happy ears D to A converters are pretty cheap these days, and you often cannot tell the difference between a cheap one and an expensive one, and most people don't know the difference anyway. The music sounds great.Don't listen to hardily to the naysayers here who give this device low reviews. For your 40 bucks, you get a gizmo that delivers what you would think 40 bucks should deliver, AND MORE. Don't bang on the screen. The touchscreen is slow, so you doh't have to press twice (usually), but you have to be DELIBERATE about it. Light touches sometimes won't work, but if you "mean it" when you touch it, you'll get a response. Again, just don't, you know, PRESSSSSSSSS on the screen. You just have to be deliberate and wait a half second for it to respond.Happy buying.

I purchased this unit because it was one of the cheapest models available which supports the FLAC audio format. I couldn't justify buying anything expensive since it would be used at work with greasy hands.Overall it really is not such a bad unit at all, but if you are interested in using the FLAC file support you should be aware that the player cannot read the tags on the files. This is significant for a couple of reasons. First off you lose all sorting ability. Choosing to look for music by album or by artist becomes meaningless because every file gets clumped under a single heading called UNKNOWN. If you have hundreds of files and are looking for a specific one to play, your only option is to scroll through the list until you hit upon it. This wouldn't be a deal-breaker if the scrolling weren't so cumbersome. Each press of the down arrow button srolls one page, or about a half a dozen entries. If what you are seeking lies at the bottom of this list punching the sluggish touchscreen 50 times for about 3 minutes gets old.A few other gotchas: 1) Of the 40 volume adjustment steps exactly 3 of them are functional. You get normal, normal for a noisy environment, loud, and 37 more steps after that which are exactly the same as the third. If you need to listen to this quietly then you're out of luck. 2) The battery life when playing FLAC files is, at best, 3 hours audio time. Even for a budget player that's pretty sad. 3) The player will not turn itself off after a period of inactivity and it seems to consume the same amount of battery whether it is playing music or not. So, if you forget to turn it off during a lunch break it most likely is not turning back on for you when you come back. 4) The unit takes longer to charge it's battery than it does to discharge it, generally 4 hours or more.The player is very light and cheap/flimsy feeling but I haven't had any issue with anything breaking, nor does it feel as if it will break in my pocket. The touchscreen is typical of a product in this pricerange, a simple resistive type unit with very washed out color and a TN type LCD matrix. Honesty for the price it sells for the touchscreen works just fine, anybody expecting the responsiveness of a capacitive touch panel in a $30 player, well, deserves to get this one I suppose.Interestingly enough the bright spot of the player is the sound quality, which all in all is pretty good. There is some sort of spatial processing being done by whatever chipset they used, similar to a BBE effect only more subtle. It is not user controllable or adjustable, I'm guessing it is something offered at the hardware level that the Coby guys decided they wanted to have on all the time. It adds an expanded sense of space and separation between notes, but is rather subtle and doesn't sound as overtly artificial as most audio signal processing does. Beyond that the core values of the player's audio quality is commendable. It has good frequency extension in both directions, not sounding rolled off. There is surprisingly good bass drive too, and nothing sounds overtly colored or non-linear either.So the player is flawed almost to the point of being useless, but when it is actually playing music it does a pretty good job of it. I did not try the included earbuds since I have a large variety of other headphones to use. Nor did I try any of the other features such as the camera. I did attempt to look at the built-in photos thinking I could set one as a wallpaper for the home screen. It takes about 30 seconds for each thumbnail to load, and after 5 minutes I gave up and turned it off.Maybe the batter life is better with mp3 files as opposed to FLAC, and assuming it can read standard tags on mp3 files the navigation would be vastly better. So if you fit that scenario this might not be a bad el-cheapo player to pick up, but if you are looking at this because it supports FLAC then I suggest you look elsewhere.

Der Coby-Player wurde vorrangig wegen seinem Preis-Leistungsangaben-Verhältnis gekauft.Der erste Eindruck vom Äußeren ist gar gar nicht mal so schlecht. Das Plastikgehäuse knirscht zwar etwas, aber ansonsten scheint alles relativ stabil.Doch dann kommt das erste Problem: Er lässt sich nicht einschalten.Ist das Gerät defekt? Denn auch nach mehreren Minuten Ladezeit lässt sich der Coby sich nicht anschalten...Nach einiger Ladezeit gelingt das Einschalten doch, da der Akku nicht (mehr) vorgeladen ist, wie man es bei vielen Geräten gewohnt ist. Das Laden funktioniert dabei ausschließlich über USB, ein Adapter für die Steckdose liegt nicht bei. Damit dauert eine volle Ladung ca. 8 Stunden (geschätzt) und ist aus meiner Sicht unangemessen lange.Nun kann man das Display begutachten. Dieses ist sehr grob auflösend und die Farbabstufungen sind störend, weshalb ein sehr pixeliger Eindruck entsteht.Der Touchscreen fühlt sich an, als wäre er von einer Folie bedeckt und es passiert öfters, dass Berührungen nicht registriert werden.Wenn man dann mit etwas Nachdruck den gewünschten Punkt auswählt, kann es trotzdem sein, dass man zuerst keine Veränderung bemerkt, da der Prozessor sehr langsam zu sein scheint und Eingaben teilweise im Schneckentempo abarbeitet. Wenn man beispielsweise die systemeigenen Bilder im Ordnersystem betrachten möchte, benötigt er über 45 Sekunden, um die Vorschaubilder der ersten 14 Bilder aufzubauen. Und während dieser Zeit nimmt er auch keine neuen Befehle an. -> Absolut nervigZudem ist die Menüführung und die Belegung der Tasten nicht wirklich selbsterklärend.Die eigentliche Aufgabe - das Abspielen von Musik - geht etwas flotter vonstatten, aber auch hier trüben ruckelnde Menü-Animationen den Spaß.Der Klang (getestet an meinen 2.1 Logitech Z-2300 Lautsprechern über Klinke) ist zwar ein Tick blechern aber für geringere Ansprüche ausreichend.Sonstige Funktionen wie die Kamera sind unnötige Gadgets, da Bilder mit 0,3 Megapixel eher wie Handyfotos von vor 8 Jahren aussehen.Ob die vom Hersteller angegebenen 25 Stunden Akkulaufzeit realistisch sind habe ich nicht getestet, da ich das Produkt aus Enttäuschung zu wenig verwende.Zwar kann man einwenden, dass man für den Preis nicht zu viel erwarten darf und das Abspielen der Musik funktioniert, aber viel mehr gibt es zur Verteidigung nicht zu sagen.Das Produkt ist erst seit Mitte 2011 auf dem Markt, entspricht aber dem Stand der Technik von 2005. Dabei wurden kaum brauchbare Funktionen wie Video bzw. Foto-aufnahme und Wiedergabe integriert, nur damit es sich auf dem Datenblatt besser liest.Fazit:Der Coby MP 828 lässt sich nur extrem eingeschränkt empfehlen. Aus heutiger Sicht würde ich eher etwas mehr investieren und dafür ein höherwertiges Produkt erwerben.

You get what you pay for, it is a very cheaply built product, the menu is hard to navigate, and one of my PC's won't even recognize the drive on it. You don't even wanna know how bad the camera is....jeez. But it was purchased to load up with language lessons and leave in my work truck, without much worry if I forget it there. I'm going to put a self adhesive velcro pad on the back of it and on my dashboard, something I wouldn't do with my phone. Plus, there are times when I want an FM radio with me while walking, which works fine. It comes with a cheap pair of ear buds. Overall, it's what I wanted for the price I wanted and it works, so I'm happy enough with it.

Je me suis procurer ce lecteur pour principalement écouter de la musique, je l'ai reçu comme promis, un fois branché on nous dit de télécharger Cobymediamanager ce que j'ai tenter de faire et quand on demande le CMM tout ce que l'on a comme résultat c'est un accès pour télécharger des mises à jour de pilotes. J'ai déjà eu un lecteur Coby par le passé mais je ne rappelle pas avoir eu un problème pour télécharger ma musique. on dit avant de retourner l'appareil de communiquer avec 2 numéros de téléphone où on n'obtient pas de réponse ou une adresse de courriel ¨[email protected]¨, mais là aussi on nous dit que l'adresse n'est pas valide. Je ne sais plus trop quoi faire. Ce que je peux dire actuellement c'est que je ne suis pas satisfait de cet achat.

usage personnelle

enough storage play and all my music at the touch of a button - works well