UK: AMP3: iRiver P7 is one nice bit of kit!

One site I do like to frequent for tech-goodness is AMP3 – or Advanced MP3 Players, to you and me! AMP3 have some great kit on board, and it’s very music-centric – just my cup of tea!

I happened across the iRiver P7 just browsing on the site, and it is NICE – check out the pic above. Sometimes I think we might forget that certain gadgets can excel at one thing to such an extent that they deserve to be standalone devices – case in point: the P7!

AMP3 have a nice summary:

The bare facts are that this is a 4.3” touchscreen media player, with great video support and Flash based memory (up to 16GB).  It features the important flexibility of additional memory expansion, via microSD.  iRiver fulfil expectations with a wide range of functionality and features, but this isn’t the main talking point of the player.

The really unique feature is the User Interface – iRiver call this Magazine UI.  It makes the process of navigating and using the player much more familiar to more people, by arranging items in a Magazine layout – big panel icons and thumbnail images with useful information arranged around the screen in a really simple and attractive way.

This obviously makes full use of the fact that the 4.3” screen is all touch enabled, allowing infinite variation in the control layout – making each function of the player as straightforward to use as possible.

And on the specs front:

• Video formats: AVI, MP4, DAT, MPG, WMV, RM/RMVB, 3GP,K3G, FLV
• Great Resolution at 480×272 pixels
• Simple movie transfer – just drag and drop
• Audio formats: MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, FLAC
• FM Radio
• Picture Viewer, including a slideshow function
• FM Radio Recorder (in WMV)
• Voice Recording (in WMV)
• Text Viewer
• Built-in Speaker
• Memory Expansion

Overall then, a REALLY nice bit of kit – and coming in at £179.00, it’s (I think) a very reasonable price too!

If you want to purchase one of these bad boys, check out AMP3 here.