Matsui MAT102 256MB MP3 Player Reviews

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Score: 4.9/10

320 Real Customer Reviews - In Summary

This MP3 player has no outstanding positive points. It scored very poorly on sound quality. “Price, but you get what you pay for” Jamie, Scarborough View all 320 real customer reviews

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320 verified purchasers have reviewed this product.
42% of people recommend it.

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All purchasers (316)
Ease of use6.4
Sound quality6.3
Value for money (at time of purchase)6.7
Overall rating4.9
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*not all purchasers provided a score or review

Score 1.0/10

Jamie, Scarborough

+ price, but you get what you pay for

- pip noise on any low sound, really annoyed me when listening to music. And looking on forums i was not unlucky alot of other people got the same issues. After the second one was the same, i ordered a different manufacturer.

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 21 Aug 2007

Score 9.0/10

Russell, Trowbridge

+ Easy to use, rugged, softgrip feel so you don't keep dropping it.

- bigger than some others I've seen but NOT at this price!

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 22 Oct 2008

Score 2.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Compact design and memory size.

- Powwer capacity, using fresh Duracell batteries I am lucky if it lasts a day. I also have issues with the system freezing intermittently

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 08 Oct 2007

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- Battery lasts about an hour!

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 27 Aug 2007

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- Once it was opened out of the box it worked fine.......but when the batteries needed replacing its never worked again.......as tho all its memory has vanished

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Oct 2007

Score 4.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ In principle this mp3 was great value especially because it had the voice recorder. Problems arose
when I downloaded music unto it. It played for a while then started to freeze. The same happened to the
voice recordings after a few days it would not play. Maybe it was something I didn't do or read in the instructions. The sound was excellent and fairly straightforward to use without looking a the manual, as said in principle it was good, but these problems made me decide it was a bad purchase I bought 9 of these players and returned 4. They all did the same thing.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 09 Sep 2007

Score 1.0/10

Tibor, Bristol

+ Cheap,no more

- Last year i bolt 3item of matsui mp3 playert.After 2 days 1 of them did not work.1 month later an other,2month later the last one of them did break down.I will never buy any matsui product.Thanks

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 23 Nov 2007

Score 5.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ works

- poor quality photocopy instructions

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 14 Mar 2008

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- unreliable, poor quality

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 02 Dec 2007

Score 1.0/10

andy , edinburgh

+ none

- many.wont fast forward/rewind.cant skip tracks.cant turn volume up

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 01 Dec 2007

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ price

- Went wrong after 1 week

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 24 Nov 2007

Score 1.0/10

Jackie, Bembridge

+ Reviewer left no comment

- it did not work!

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 28 Nov 2007

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ I bought 3. Each failed after a couple of months.

- I bought 3. Each failed after a couple of months.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Nov 2007

Score 1.0/10

Chris, Bristol

+ Reviewer left no comment

- turned up broken, was then replaced with a incomplete unit. (the USB extension cable was missing). this unit also turned out to be broken.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 22 Mar 2008

Score 1.0/10

Morwenna , London , “28 year old female”

+ It was cheap and simple to use

- In total my husband and I brought 4 of these, 2 where for gifts.All of them broke and stoped working in the first month of ownership. I was refunded my money however would not be recomending them to any body.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 15 Nov 2007

Score 10.0/10

debbie, kent

+ excellent value for what i needed it for, it works, its fully functional, its a reconditioned unit, but that hasn't affected its performance.

- no bad points

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 24 Sep 2008

Score 2.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Excelent value

- Stopped working after a few uses

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 26 Oct 2008

Score 9.0/10

Sean, Newcastle

+ considering space for music, the size is brilliant, with reasonable quality batteries it lasts a decent amount of time, and unlike what some reviewers have said, sound quality is pretty good, good enough for an mp3 player used basicly for walking to and from uni in my case

- Reviewer left no comment

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 30 Oct 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Cheap, easy to operate, long battery life,

- none so far

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purchased 12 Jun 2007

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Cheap

- Didn't work properly ...some kind of wierd software error. Had to return for refund.

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purchased 03 Jul 2007

Score 1.0/10

Rachel, London

+ Reviewer left no comment

- it doesn't work!!! and using up too much battery power

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purchased 20 Jul 2007

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Good sound, good amount of storage

- Takes a long time to load and get started

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purchased 07 Sep 2007

Score 1.0/10

johnson, woking

+ look handy

- none of the button is funtion

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purchased 06 Oct 2007

Score 3.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- Takes 3 to 4 minutes before you can listen to music and then it always starts at track 1. Other similar devices I have are ready in less than 30 seconds and continue from where they were.

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purchased 24 Jul 2007

Score 5.0/10

Terry, Croydon

+ When it worked it was brilliant.

- i had it for about a month and now it just does not boot up on starting. can not listen to anything now.

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purchased 29 Aug 2007

Score 2.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ cheap

- slow to access tracks

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purchased 23 Jun 2007

Score 10.0/10

DAMIEN, CHESTER

+ GOOD MEMORY AND PRICE

- HORRID HEADPHONES

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purchased 31 Jul 2007

Score 8.0/10

Les, Chesterfield

+ Basic but does everything i want it to do.
Great value for money

- None

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purchased 13 Aug 2007

Score 7.0/10

Adrian, Bridge of Weir

+ Uncomplicated

- looks uncool

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purchased 08 Oct 2007

Score 6.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Good spec

- Had to upgarde the firmware from a non- Matsui site to get the functionality advertised on the packaging of the product and in the product manual !

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purchased 23 Jul 2007

Score 1.0/10

shameela, devons road, london

+ price

- everything is bad...coz i purchased 6 of them in single transaction and 5 of them doesnt work at all.im totally dis satisfied.

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purchased 23 Aug 2007

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- The product lasted for a very short time and then wouldn't work any more

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purchased 13 Sep 2007

Score 10.0/10

christine, birkenhead

+ good memory an good quality

- installation was a bit difficult but worked well afta that

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purchased 13 Dec 2007

Score 4.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Very Cheap

- Very unreliable. They keep breaking

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purchased 20 Oct 2007

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Compact and easy to use. Good value. I

- Instructions could be more detailed.

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purchased 01 Nov 2007

Score 8.0/10

Philip, Farnham

+ Excellent value for money and this mp3 player is as good as anything else and better than many other more expensive products

- Buttons are not clearly marked and takes a while to figure it out or read the instructions but men like to struggle first.

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purchased 05 Oct 2007

Score 5.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ not the latest bit of kit but quite good

- track selection fiddlely

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purchased 12 Nov 2007

Score 3.0/10

Paul, York

+ Easy to use and put music on.

- Doesn't last more than a month. Bought 2 of these both did the same thing, after a month the memory goes, and you are unable to switch it on. Went for a more expensive player the 3rd time. You get what you pay for in the end.

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purchased 05 Nov 2007

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ memory, quality, performance, sound

- style

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purchased 07 Nov 2007

Score 1.0/10

martin, birmingham

+ Reviewer left no comment

- after purchasing 2 of these they both failed within several weeks and therefore i would not recomend these items

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purchased 09 Sep 2007

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- It was a waste of money as it didn't work

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purchased 03 Dec 2007

Score 3.0/10

Andrew, Wolverhampton

+ It was cheap

- Every time I connect it to the pc it dumps all the files and I lose them.

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purchased 31 Oct 2007

Score 10.0/10

Sandy, Dundee

+ The fact that it has a 2GB memory at it's extremely low price. Ease of transferring files from PC. I would say that these are it's main points

- So far I haven't found any.

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purchased 23 Nov 2007

Score 9.0/10

Mukesh, Newbury

+ Its cheave and good one.

- Sound quality is not too good. may be price is very less hence quality is like this.

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purchased 27 Aug 2007

Score 1.0/10

Ishfaq, bradford

+ no good points about this product

- it doesn't work

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purchased 12 Dec 2007

Score 1.0/10

Alan , Bathgate

+ It was cheap.

- It stopped working less than 3 months later reporting an error "check internal disk". The build quality is rubbish, but I guess that is why it is so cheap.

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purchased 26 Oct 2007

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Extremely cheap for a 2GB player.

- Not the greatest sound quality, not v.good battery life and really slow and tedious to scroll through all your songs.

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purchased 22 Oct 2007

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ cheap

- usb doesn't work with my sound system usb port..and it works slowly, and sometimes it seem to be suspended and doesn't play the music, slow transfer of data between computer and the device...not even value for money

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purchased 11 Oct 2007

Score 3.0/10

Andy, Livingston

+ The initial buying was great, being able to give the kids a stocking filler like this and then things went wrong when the kids could not get them to work properly, initial thought batteries but alas it seems to be more terminal than that!!

- buying re-conditioned!!

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purchased 18 Oct 2007

Score 1.0/10

sophie, darlington

+ it was cheap

- it broke after a couple of months and ive never been able to use it since.

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purchased 08 Aug 2007

Score 6.0/10

Dursun, London

+ Was a refurbished product when I bought it.
Price was good.

- Slow and sometimes shuts down.

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purchased 18 Aug 2007

Score 10.0/10

Chriustopher, Wirral

+ you can play by artist, album or by song. Has good sound and not to big to carry.

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 19 Nov 2007

Score 10.0/10

David, Cockfosters

+ great inexpensive MP3 player with voice recorder that also works and a memory stick.

- the sound level of recordings is not very high.

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purchased 20 Sep 2007

Score 1.0/10

Jonathan, Bromsgrove

+ worked for a week

- broke once, replaced, broke again, couldnt be bothered with the hastle.

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purchased 20 Sep 2007

Score 8.0/10

roma, oldham

+ Small, cheap

- Runs on battery, Have to hold down buttons for a while

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purchased 26 Oct 2007

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- Software froze- wouldn't work after a few days

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purchased 22 Aug 2007

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ it work for 1 day

- broke down after 1 day

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purchased 23 Nov 2007

Score 10.0/10

Daniel , Bargoed

+ Very simple interface and good sound quality and easy accessible menus.

- Battery life is average.

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purchased 06 Dec 2007

Score 3.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ good price

- needed to scour the internet to find files to fix it after it refused to accept more music. bad battery life

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purchased 05 Nov 2007

Score 1.0/10

corey, belfast

+ it was cheap and lasted me a month until my birthday so i could afford something good

- it was woeful. batttery life was crap and no real form of organizing the files

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purchased 14 Sep 2007

Score 5.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Cheap. Simple to use.

- Looks cheap. Non-rechargeable battery.

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purchased 15 Sep 2007

Score 8.0/10

Paula, Wolverhampton

+ Great price - My unit was reconditioned and excellent value. I did recommend to friends who also purchased

- Voice recording could have been better

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purchased 23 Sep 2007

Score 3.0/10

Ted, Liverpool , “Aging Techie”

+ Looks Good

- Awkward to use. No control over play order. No directory control.

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purchased 06 Nov 2007

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Price

- Difficult to use
Would recommend to others to spend a little more money and buy an easier to use product

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purchased 17 Nov 2007

Score 2.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ its cheap

- i doesnt work properly

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purchased 26 Oct 2007

Score 1.0/10

Siji, London , “Open minded”

+ Worst product I ever bought in my life.........

- As above

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purchased 11 Nov 2007

Score 7.0/10

Carol, Montrose

+ its easy to use, no complicated instructions

- Could have better headphones

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purchased 01 Nov 2007

Score 6.0/10

ronald , chatham , “it is unreliable”

+ The product plays well once it is loaded

- I found it difficult to load and after loading, for some reason it lost music. I amm stll having problems with it.

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purchased 17 Nov 2007

Score 9.0/10

Graham, Truro

+ Value for money, easy to use(on the whole) long battery life

- None really, once you get to know how to work it. But like all MP3 players it's a little different from others, so you need the instructions and to be focused to understand it.

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purchased 12 Oct 2007

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- rubbish did not work

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purchased 14 Nov 2007

Score 10.0/10

Helen, Plymouth , “likes walking to music”

+ small and light

- lack of download instructions, which if I hadn't had an MP3 previously, would have caused a problem.

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purchased 11 Jan 2008

Score 3.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “student”

+ cheap

- lots of technical problems and poor battery life.

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purchased 13 Nov 2007

Score 2.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- Cannot down load music after the initial download. Not user friendly to find songs.
Bought 2 and niether of them communicate with the 2 differnt computers.

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purchased 04 Nov 2007

Score 10.0/10

Terry, Plymouth

+ ideal for my requirements

- none

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purchased 09 Oct 2007

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “music lover”

+ None

- Doesn't work, returned twice. 3rd one dosn't work

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purchased 19 Oct 2007

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- it breaks down very very easily

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purchased 02 Nov 2007

Score 10.0/10

mark, ton pentre rhondda , “totaly addicted to music”

+ could,nt live with out it so much so i own two of these

- battery life at 8 hours is ok but more would be nice

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purchased 02 Dec 2007

Score 10.0/10

paul, bradford , “happening”

+ small

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 16 Nov 2007

Score 5.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ plays music it promised to play! You can select the track you want to play.

- uses battery in no time at all

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purchased 04 Dec 2007

Score 5.0/10

graham, manchester

+ the price

- you get what you pay for

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purchased 13 Dec 2007

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ none

- eveything

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purchased 30 Oct 2007

Score 2.0/10

william, tottenham-london , “music fun”

+ i bought about 14 pieces and initailly they were working alright.

- within a period of 3 - 5 days, all the people i gave the player to as gifts, reported to me that the player's display was steady but was blinking. it did stopped working and i still have them with me now

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purchased 04 Nov 2007

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ very cheap

- ear phones

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purchased 24 Nov 2007

Score 1.0/10

lyndsey, hemel hempstead

+ none

- it came with bits missing, and it was broken and never been used

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purchased 23 Nov 2007

Score 1.0/10

Mike, Bristol

+ NONE

- Really bad menu system, wouldn't create folders, kept re-starting itself, probably the worst piece of equipment I've ever bought

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purchased 15 Nov 2007

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ cheap, easy to use

- to simple

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purchased 27 Nov 2007

Score 1.0/10

Chris, gateshead

+ Reviewer left no comment

- It didn't work

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purchased 31 Oct 2007

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- It stopped working after using it about 10 times.

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purchased 11 Dec 2007

Score 4.0/10

Mick, Newport Gwent , “I love music”

+ Cheap, easy to operate. Good sound reproduction

- Broke down after only a few weeks

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purchased 15 Oct 2007

Score 1.0/10

Mark, Exeter

+ price

- it did not work!

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purchased 14 Dec 2007

Score 1.0/10

paul, chorley

+ no good points

- at xmas i got 2 for my daughters only 1 worked ... im mad as hell

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purchased 31 Oct 2007

Score 1.0/10

Ollfat , Sheffield , “student, female, middle eastern”

+ Absolutely nothing

- i bought 3 of the same products and they all never worked, they kept crashing whenever you wanted to play music on them, all work of mine was lost because one of them developed a fault, they were unrepairable, a nightmare to have, frustrating, annoying.

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purchased 02 Dec 2007

Score 1.0/10

jayne, liverpool

+ the price of the item was very good worked well at first

- after first putting songs on both mp3 worked well then tryed to change sone listings totaly reformatted & wouldn't save any more songs this happened to both within a few weeks of each other tryed email & taking back to shop no help at all still have broken mp3's hear some help would be greatfull

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purchased 22 Nov 2007

Score 1.0/10

Sri, Reading

+ priced reasonably

- failed almost imeadiatly

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purchased 29 Oct 2007

Score 1.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- They never worked. Unfortunately for I had send them as xmas gifts to my family, overseas. They could not send them back so I bought useless non working things. Please stop selling them ever.

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purchased 22 Nov 2007

Score 3.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ It's very cheap

- Can't organise it

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purchased 27 Nov 2007

Score 8.0/10

oli, Sedgley

+ Plenty of space for tracks, good value for money, easy to use.

- None that i can think of.

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purchased 12 Nov 2007

Score 1.0/10

John, Bedford , “I like quality”

+ There are none

- Its rubbish, very very very bad sound. hard to use

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purchased 31 Oct 2007

Score 5.0/10

ALAN, ST AUSTELL

+ GOOD VALUE FOR MONEY

- INSTRUCTIONS NOT VERY CLEAR

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purchased 26 Nov 2007

Score 1.0/10

argyrios , guildford

+ cheap

- stop working....
and the time to replace takes more time that it deserves (for that price), as i did not have the time i do not try to replace it...

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purchased 05 Nov 2007

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Product Features

Hard Disk Capacity in GB 0.25
MP4 Playback No
Built-In Radio No
Colour Black
Music Playtime (hours) 8
Colour Screen No
Photo Viewer No
USB Port Yes
Built-In Microphone Yes
Release Date 24 Mar 2006

Also known as: Matsui MAT102

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