MEIZU MP4 Portable Video & Music Player 2GB
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Absolutely the worst digital product I have ever owned. It never even turned on, only the screen would flash. I plugged it into the computer and nothing happened. I wish I would have read the forums before I got this because many are complaining of this problem and the “forum admins” are helpless: “Just try again..”
I’ve owned Apple, Sony, Sandisk and Creative players and they all worked! I will avoid all Meizu products because of this experience.
I guess in China, they have never heard of Macintosh (They only build them), because this product does not work with a Mac. I imagine after spending more money on really sophisticated video converters might help. The disc that they give you with the install/video converter is a 3Inch disc that will not work on any side loaded iMac, which is pretty much all of them, and it wouldn’t work anyway because they are exe. files, which Mac’s don’t read. When I did get a video to work, it was after trying over a dozen files. The player is very picky about what files it decides it will like.
The interface takes a bit getting used to as well, but at least it looks really good. However, not good enough to waist your time.
I just received the player in the mail today. I went to turn it on, and the clicking sound you get while scrolling just started going on its own. It would NEVER stop scrolling. I formatted/updated about 3 times, no help there. I also checked google and meizume along with all of the other forums, and they said it was a hardware defect.
This player really is a waste of time and money: the list of glitches and bugs is too long to get into, suffice it to say that it cannot even play an album’s songs in the right order (a known, unfixed bug). The interface is also shamefully crude and it lacks gapless playback.
There’s no excuse for a gadget like this in the 21st century.
Save your money.
I bought this about six months ago and had mixed feelings about until I actually read the instruction manual and learned how to overcome its slight flaws. The sound quality is great, the overall quality is fine. The video quality is great. It’s quite user-friendly and moving music files is as simple as click and drag. It’s a great size and is easy to carry in the tiniest of pockets. The video conversion software is a snap.
It does have a couple of slight flaws, though. It seems to get confused easily if I’m at all inaccurate while scrolling and accidentally touch multiple buttons it locks up. It’s easy to remedy by holding the enter button for ten seconds, which resets it. Also, if you use Windows Explorer to delete files, it doesn’t rewrite the file allocation. If you fill it up, then use Windows Explorer to delete the files, it still thinks its full, even though the files aren’t there whether you look in explorer or the Meizu’s intergral browser. Also, the accessories on the Dana-Elec website are all ‘Available Soon’. I’ve been checking since I bought this thing and ‘soon’ doesn’t seem to have come yet.
I highly recommend the Meizu, mostly because I recently purchased a Zune, which greatly annoyed me the first day I bought it. The Meizu is plug-and-play right out of the box. It even came fully charged and with a couple of sample videos and some music already installed. After buying the Zune, and paying a considerable amount, I still had to download the software, which I am unable to do because I’m in Iraq and our internet connection won’t allow the transfer of the 33mb software program. The only software you need for the Meizu is the video conversion. When I pay hundreds of dollars for a product, I ought to be able to pull it out of the box and use it right away. Not so with the Zune, which is useless for people without internet. The Meizu isn’t as capacious, but it’s still 100% better. I own the 4gb now. I’m going to return my piece of garbage Zune and upgrade to the 8gb Meizu.
ADDENDUM:
By far the best feature is the internal browser. I bought a Zune. Hated it. The Meizu doesn’t need to be plugged into anything in order to manage files. Also, although the purpose built Meizu cases have remained ‘available soon’ on the Meizu site, I found a case that fits like a glove in an unlikely place; an Orvis shop. The case is intended to hold fishing lures, but it fits the Meizu perfectly. Also, the USB cable is easy to find and replace. I do lots and lots of traveling and the standard USB cable is easy to find in even the most backwater locations. Try to find a Zune cable in, say, Durres, Albania.