Olympus m:robe MR-500i Digital Music Player with Digital Camera by Olympus
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Digital camera reviews of Olympus m:robe MR-500i Digital Music Player with Digital Camera
Digital camera Review: Great Player!
Summary: 5 Stars
The m:robe 500 is a great looking player with very cool functionality. Everyone that sees me with my m:robe wants to get one. Highly recommended!Digital camera Review: Great concept but has its flaws!
Summary: 4 Stars
The m:robe 500 is a great toy. I got it as a birthday present and think its very useful and fun. I mostly use it to listen to music but sometimes I take quick snapshots with it. The m:robe is great! However it has many flaws. The idea of Olympus is especially creative because I have never found a mp3 player that is combined with a camera with touchscreen! It's even 20 GB.
The pros:
-cameras really fun and handy just for snapshots
-m:trip software (comes with the m:robe) is easy to use
-touchscreens really convenient
-screens huge
-music playback has great sound quality
-remote control is convenient
-2o GB storage
-the remix cube is way fun to play with
-looks way hot
-scratches and dents don't show up well!
The cons:
-screen can only be viewed in some angles
-it takes a while to load after you turn it on
-there aren't very many accessories for it in the market
-it only comes with a pouch
-battery life is only about 5-7 hours long
-its a little heavy
-touchscreen doesn't always respond quickly
-you can't take pictures quickly because it takes a while to get to the camera
-there is only a light and no flash
-photo light drains battery life fast
Overall, the m:robe 500 is a great thing to have. Especially for the price. But if your looking for something lighter, smaller, more compact, and with more features, you might want to look at the Creative Zen Vision. However, that doesn't have a camera. So the m:robe definitely has its pros and cons. If you mainly want a music player and something that just takes quick snapshots for fun, this is a great toy.
Digital camera Review: Great picture viewer: noone till date has a better picture viewing screen ~210dpi 640X480
Summary: 5 Stars
Let me first say that I've used a lot of digital multimedia devices, so I know what I'm talking about. Most of them are 3" and 320X240 even the PDA's available are of that resolution. So getting a 640X480 on a 3.7" screen is simply amazing, the pictures are very sharp, clear and vivid. I haven't seen any PDA, jukebox, multimedia device show better pictures. So naturally I've used this as a portable album, and with 20gb of storage I transferred all the pictures I've ever taken!!
Other than using this a picture viewer, the music jukebox is great with a novelty feature of being able to make remixes (motion based picture effects). Having said all this I'd like to summarize the pros and cons, so hopefully in the future they can make this into the IDEAL product and you buy it for the right reasons:
PROS:
- best picture viewing device (colors are limited maybe ~65K)
the screen is so sweet, i've tagged this along as a portable album, and everybody was amazed by the pics
- 640X480 pixels on 3.7" which translates to ~210dpi , rendering very sharp, clear, vivid images on screen
- good music player
- awesome futuristic touchscreen, will make everyone go "wow!"
- music output quality is great, volume is great
- has equalizers, music categories, filtering etc
- headphones are better than ipod's
- included remote with LCD is very convenient especially when you've got this thing hooked up to your car
- digital camera is a bonus to all this
- can be used as portable storage without any drivers on any pc
CONS:
- although they advertise the digital camera feature a lot, it's not even better than a cell phone camera, so don't expect much from the camera, you can't take good pictures with it.
- you are bound to using their SYNC software which is a major pain. It would've been a lot easier to do file drag'n'drop
- the SYNC software is very annoying, if you remove something from you hard disk, it will be removed from the device when you SYNC again, so this can't be used to backup all your songs, if you loose it in your hard drive, you'll loose it here as well.
- the SYNC software renames all pictures and music
- If this thing could be used as a usb host for "on the go" (OTG) transfer of pictures from another usb to this device, it would've been perfect, I would've bought 2 of these. This way you could take pics with your digital camera filling up a card, then transfer them here, and view (a lot better viewing because size and res of screen) or delete the ones you don't like.
- cannot be charged using the usb cable, has to use the dock
- battery life with screen on all the time is not good, about
3 hours at most
- limited viewing angle for screen, seems like you're seeing a negative if tilted a bit.
Digital camera Review: HORRIBLE!!
Summary: 2 Stars
I would NOT reccomend this at all. The graphics are okay.
~Pros~
Touchscreen
Camera
~Cons~
Software does NOT work
Touchscreen not very responsive
Battery is horrible even with screen off
Camera is a horrible quality
Digital camera Review: Its ok for some people
Summary: 2 Stars
~pros~
camera
touch screen
huge display
you can use your fingers on the touch screen
~cons~
BATTERY LIFE (1-2 hrs.)
gets dirty easily (fingerprints)
also scratches easily
not a good volume control
the headphones make no sense at all (one headphone cord is longer then the other)
I think that this mp3 player should go to people who listen to music not very often. If you use this at home, no problems. I have to say that the software is kind of cheesy. And if you had an iPod, you have to convert all of your songs to mp3 format (kinda annoying)