Median M-CODY M20 1GB review

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Review Date: 23 Oct 2006

Price when reviewed: inc VAT

Reviewed By: Simon Handby

Our Rating 1 stars out of 5

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Specs

This small, slender MP3 player is inexpensive and looks great.

It has only a play/pause button and a keylock, with all other functions controlled by touching the front panel. Red lights mark five different navigation controls, but the player's menu system is hard to master. It's also easy to brush the front panel and perform an action by mistake. The M20's earphones are extremely comfortable and sound reasonable.

Like Sony's NW-A1200 music player, M-Cody's M20 can't display photos or videos. You use Windows Explorer to copy audio files across to the device, but transfers are excruciatingly slow. Our 500MB set of test files trickled through the player's USB1.1 interface in 12 minutes.

M-Cody claims that the M20's battery lasts up to 12 hours, but its performance differed each time we tested it. The best time we recorded was a little under five hours, while the worst was just shy of an hour and 15 minutes. Suspecting a fault, we tested a second unit, which performed similarly. An MP3 player with such a random and short battery life is no use so, despite some good points, the M20 is one to avoid.

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