COBY MP-C7095 MP3 Player

Decent Little Player

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Sep 1, 2007 | 6 out of 7 found this COBY MP-C7095 review helpful

Pros: Small and portable

Cons: No real support / Video weak

I bought this a month ago thinking that my kids (10 and 11) may enjoy it for the long car rides (NPR is so boring to them, an actual quote). I actually got two of them. Low to mid priced I also figured I wouldn't be out of much money if they hate...d them plus the packaging said video support. Albeit I wasn't expecting an Ipod BUT if you say video support atleast make the software more intuitive and conversions better. For video playback is grainy and a bit below an "okay" standard. Music playback is fair although the equalizer is a must for almost any music and must be adjusted for invididual types of music if using the ear buds given in the packaging. The ear buds given are fair as well, they replicate highs and lows at a mid to high level of volume but if you are looking to blow your ear drums away the highest sound volume sounds distorted and crappy. You can always buy another set of ear buds which dramatically improves sound quality. It faithfully plays the file types listed on the packaging so no worries about that. The most annoying part at first is the touch based navigation. Through the years I have used everything from a Rex 6000 (50 points for those who know what this little device is) to a Palm to a IPod. The navigation is NOT intuitive. What you may think is a direct path to one function or another is not. After a couple of days this is easily learned but when trying to play with them at first its a bugger. My kids didn't like the touch based because it has no tactile feel, to me no big deal but a valid concern for those who need a felt response to know if they pushed the button or not. When trying to learn the device there was hardly any support except a small manual. Software disc didn't contain any in depth instructions that I had been accustomed to having in electronic devices. It was hard to find the website for other support as well. To me this is the worst part of the device as one may try to do video conversions but has no idea what the limits are or may want to learn more about the directory structure but again has to learn through trial and error. I will say that after three weeks the kids abandoned the devices, maybe it was because the novelty wore off (as so often happens) or their hard time with using it. My wife and I instead adopted both of them after the kids left them laying in the garage. We use them for our walking and workouts and they work just fine. Sure you can buy the little arm band ones but when you have pockets or a stand on a tredmill for water and listening devices it really doesn't matter (to us). In the car use is fair at best because after a couple of hours of sitting in the hot sun the battery drains rather fast. Sound replication in the car is fine though, as with any MP3 device hooked to a stereo system you have to adjust the two for optimum sound. The final complaint is that you have to recharge it from a computer as it comes without any wall socket to recharge and trying to work around this (by plugging into a powered USB dock station or video game system) doesn't work. No big deal for those who have computers lying around the house but when the only computer is upstairs in a cluttered office it can be a drag. Read more Less