Cowon iAudio 7

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83% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

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86% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Small, lightweight design Records voice and FM radio

Screen is too small for watching video Average audio quality

Despite its middling audio quality, the Cowon iAudio 7 works well for listening to songs and the radio, and for making occasional audio recordings, but it's too small for video, and you should see if you can master its peculiar controls at a local...

FM radio. Radio, voice, and line-in recording. Decent file support. Excellent battery life.

Tiny screen, terrible for photos, video. Graphics look out of date. User interface confusing to navigate. Buttons easy to activate accidentally.

it turns out that these are all the files on the player, including photos from my test suite that loaded onto the player but can't be displayed because they are incompatible. this is actually a useful feature—a visual reference if you want to use your...

Broad file-format support; great sound; innovative features

Display is much too small; no support for WMA Lossless; odd touch-sensitive controls

Cowon dedicated more surface area to the iAudio 7’s touch-sensitive control surface than they did for its display. The screen is surprisingly legible for its size, but our eyes tired quickly while browsing folders displayed at a resolution of just...

Sound Quality, Powerful Amp, Very Customizable sound settings, Battery Life, BBE, Full of features, Lots of Audio file support

Unintuitive interface, Overly sensitive touch interface, Awkward Size - Too Thick, WMA recording only, On-the-Go playlists and bookmarks don't work in ID3 Browsing Mode, Weak FM reception

The iAudio 7 has a solid audio codec and feature set that will keep the casual and hardcore users happy. Added to this is a firm build quality. The sound quality is crisp with an even across-the-spectrum response that has the power to drive larger...

The iAudio 7 is Cowon's latest flash based MP3 player. Some people might be surprised about the fact that the iAudio 7 is the company's newest player, simply because the design is not new. Externally the i7 is a near perfect copy of the iAudio 6....

It's not helped by the fact that what you do with them isn't always obvious either – the context sensitive button, for instance, is used to go up a folder level, but not when you're in the Now Playing screen. You have to hit the menu button on the top...