Rio Forge 512 MB Sport MP3 Player

Rio Forge 512 MB Sport MP3 Player

Product Description
From the Manufacturer
The Rio Forge is designed for people that like to play hard and use music to play even harder. Rugged and compact, the Rio Forge Sport player uses no moving parts and stays solid even when your body is moving fast.

The Rio Forge series is our latest generation of flash-based sports players. The Rio Forge is designed for people that like to play hard and use music to play even harder. The new design integrates the protective rubber grip from previous models with a stainless steel face plate for added durability. Up to 20 hours of battery life allows you hours of non-stop work out time. Comfortable Sport Clip earphones and a newly designed case with armband keep your player and music secure and accessible. Simple menus and intuitive controls make for easy one-handed operation. Stopwatch and Lap Timer make the Forge the ultimate gym or running companion.

Features

512 MB of memory stores up to 4 hours of music

Sport Clip Earphones

Sports Case with Armband

USB 2.0 for Fast Transfers

Stopwatch & Lap Timer

FM Radio

Audible Support

Up to 20 hours Battery Life

MSC Compatible for easy drag and drop of music and data files.

Rugged Design Provides Skip Free Music

Expansion Memory Slot Lets You Add up to 1 GB of Additional Memory

Includes Rio Music Manager -- the most intuitive way to create and manage your digital music library

Box Contents: Rio Forge 512, Carrying Case with Armband, Sport Clip Earphones, 1 Energizer AAA Alkaline Battery, USB 2.0 Cable, Installation Disk, Quick Start Poster, Warranty Card

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Product Description:
The ultimate gym or running companion, the Rio Forge Sport combines rugged design and practical flash-based technology. With 512MB of memory, you can store up to 16 hours of music and a 24-hour battery life ensures a nonstop workout. The Rio Forge features grippy, protective rubber and a shiny stainless steel faceplate; simple menus and intuitive controls; stopwatch; lap timer; USB 2.0; FM tuner and FM record; USB port; CD-ROM drive; 5-band adjustable equalizer with presets; 64MB RAM; 35MB available hard drive space; upgradeable memory up to 1GB and compatibility with Windows and Mac platforms. Includes comfortable sport clip earphones, carrying case with armband, installation disk and Quick Start guide. Available storage capacity may vary. Made in USA.

Rio Forge 512 MB Sport MP3 Player

Average customer rating:

Perfect Player for Almost Two Years

Finally, a great player for Audiobooks!

Nice Product, Good Service.

Great MP3 Player

My Rio Forge 512 MB Sport works great

Rio Forge 512 MB Sport MP3 Player

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ProductGroup: CE
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Product Features:

16 hours of Music

Upgrade up to 1 GB

Stainless Steel Face

512 MB

Stopwatch

ASIN: B0002UB2Q4

Product Description

Rio Forge 512MB Sport MP3 Player 90260577 - The Rio Forge series is our latest generation of flash based sport players. The Forge was designed for people that like to play hard and use music to play even harder. The new design integrates the grippy, protective rubber from previous models with a new shiny stainless steel face plate for added durability. Up to 20 hours of battery life allow you hours of non-stop work out time. Comfortable Sport Clip earphones and a newly designed case with armband keep your player and music secure and accessible. Simple menus and intuitive controls make for easy one-handed operation. Stopwatch and Lap Timer make the Forge the ultimate gym or running companion.

Customer Reviews:

Perfect Player for Almost Two Years.......2007-02-20

An excellent player with no problems for almost two years now. The only problem is the FM tuner, it is not working well but this doesn't bother me at all. It is very good player and comes with arm band for fixing while doing sports.

Finally, a great player for Audiobooks!.......2007-01-14

I was really nervous about purchasing the Rio. It's gotten such mixed reviews on this site and others. But, it was the only player I could find on the market that did everything I needed. And, after a few months, I have to say, I am very pleased with my purchase. I now believe that most of the unfavorable reviews are from older models and Rio has recently gotten the kinks out.

I used this player for audiobook/podcast exclusively. I have never loaded music on it.

I needed a player that was:
1. Expandable (I have a separate device that allows me to schedule recordings and save them to an SD card, I needed a player to put the cards into)
2. FM Radio with record feature
3. Autoresume (I bought this player to replace my RCA Lyra which lacks the autoresume feature; a player is useless for audiobooks without this feature).
4. Audible.com compatable
5. PlaysforSure/WMA compatable (I download audiobooks from my local libraries onto the player).

I am very pleased with my purchase. This player is one of very few that was made with the audiobook lover in mind. Not only does it do autoresume, you can save your place on up to 9 different tracks! I have only found 1 other MP3 player manufacturer that offers this feature. My only complaint is that the SD card slot in a bad place (behind the battery). So, I don't switch cards as much as I expected to. However, I was pleased to find that the player accepts my 2gb SD card. The 4gb card didn't work, but I think that may be a problem with the card.

Nice Product, Good Service........2007-01-12

Not as fully functional as Creative, but better than Ipods. Also, uses SD cards for extra memory, nice.

Great MP3 Player.......2006-12-29

I have had this unit for quite a while now. I actually bought two of them. I don't use it often but when I do it works great. Very easy to use interface, good sound. I like the fact that you can add memory to it. Be advised: it takes Secure Digital cards but per Rio, only up to a 1 GB card. That is what I use and it works great. The software is awesome. Extremely easy to use for anyone, even if you are not much of a computer user.

My Rio Forge 512 MB Sport works great.......2006-11-27

After several months with this Rio, I haven't had any problems with it and I've been extremely pleased with my purchase. I bought this right before the iPod Nano came out, and I've thought several times about replacing the Rio... but the Rio's performance hasn't given me any reason to replace it. And the interface is much easier than the iPod products -- plugs right into my computer as a USB storage device. I can copy music files right over, without having to rely on iTunes or similar program.

I especially like the expandability option -- additional SD card increased the storage capacity.

Although I had my doubts when I first purchased the Rio Forge, I haven't had any problems whatsoever and I'm completely satisfied with this product.

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