touch screen, user interface, privacy settings, support many media formats
Disadvantages:
na
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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Introduction:
This new Oppo S11 media player squeezes inside lots of features, including an FM tuner, SD expansion slot (only supports up to 2GB), voice and FM recording functions, a clock, a stopwatch, games, and USB2.0 connection. The S11I also has motion sensing gaming function where you can tilt, rock, and swing the S11I to mimic game actions. The 3-inch touchscreen (480×272)device houses 4GB internal flash memory and runs tons of multimedia formats including MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, FLAC, APE, AVI,DIVX, RM, XVID, RMVB, FLV, JPG, GIF, PNP, PSP, and BMP. Measures are 95 x 58 x 9.9mm and battery life is good for 17 hours of audio. Also part of the 'smart' player series.
Design:
Oppo, is known for their quailty and functionality. The S11I lives up to this standard, With it's sleek, slim design. It Measures 95 x 58 x 9.9mm and weighs 92g. It has precise touch-screen operation. Colors are solid black with a stripe of orange around it. The Micro SD slot, USB port and the 3.5MM headphone jack are all along the one end, making it very accessable. The Cassing is all metal in the OPPO classic style design. The only button on the S11 is the power, which is located on the top right hand side, everything else is accessed by the touch screen.
Screen:
It has a 3.0-inch 480X272 and 16 million color, WQVGA (16:9) touch-screen, a 160 degree visual perspective, near that of a LTPS. Excelent movie play back. I used AVI at 480X272 and had no pixel discolors of any kind.
User Interface:
The Touch screen is the main user interface, but also has gesture recognition functions used for opening a song simply shake it to switch songs, Picture or movie when in those modes and the S11 has built-in support for three-dimensional games intelligent operation, through rotation, swing, rock, a variety of movements can be made.
The GUI:
Being a Touch screen the Graphical User Interface is pretty easy to navagate your way around through it. It has a layout with ten different 'buttons' to choose from: Music, Video, Phot, Radio, Record, Explorer, Resume Play, Settings, and application.
Audio:
Compatible audio formats include MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, FLAC and APE audio formats. EQ with the following presets: Jazz, Classic, Pop, Rock, Natural, 3D, Bass, and Flac; and customized EQ also. Sound quality is superb using the headphones that came with the player, Sennheiser's. I have also found that the 3D is by far the best setting for movies as well as music. Does have resume for audio, and playback by artist, album, or all. Supports mutiple playlists that can be saved.
Video:
The video on the 480X272 3.0 screen is very easy to watch.The frame rate I have used is 25 and 29.97 fps, looks and plays very good. Also has support for resume for all video files, to played where you left off at a later time.
Photos:
This player can handle different photo file types, JPEG, BMP, PNG, PSP, GIF, and they can be 'flipped' - (Rotatable), zoomed in or out of, And even made to be the 'background' on the player. I tried images up to 1024 x 1024 pixels, with out any problems. Photo browsing is done with thumbnails which you can then extend to full screen size. You can view them manually or in slide show. Music can also be played during a slide show as well. Photos can also be your background if youlike.
TV-Out:
The S11I has a cord that plugs into it that has the three 'RCA' ends Yellow for Video, and white and red for left and right audio channles. When connected to a T.V. the video is resized to fit the screen of the T.V. and playback is very good as well as the audio. The controls on the player are not useable when in TV out mode, so FWD and REW take a second to work.
Other Features:
Security Lock: The S11 has the feature of being able to make a security code to turn it on, or to view certain files if you want. After seeting this up (if you use, but you do not have to use it) then when it is turned on the first screen goes to a password area that has to be entered to use the player, So dont forget it!
Radio: Radio reception is fairly good - headphones are also needed for reception. FM station search Support for manual and automatic. Freq: 89.9 Mhz - 108Mhz. Best thing I found is that it does have a pop-up that you can enter the exact freq. and it will go right to it. Has sixteen presets, for your favorite stations.
Games & Tools: The S11I comes with three pre-installed games: roller totem, limit water-skiing, and maze bowls all of them can be played with the touch screen or through the built-in support for three-dimensional games intelligent operation, through rotation, swing, rock, played the role of a variety of movements. Though the games are interesting, they are all in Chinese, but are pretty easy to figure out what to do. Also has a Stop Watch, A Calander, and a World clock.
Voice Recording: Voice recording worked just as expected. Also supports FM recording of the current station playing. Has low and High settings, and is in the .wav format.
Text Viewing: TXT files / E-books can be viewed with the S11I as well, it does have a resume fution for these also.
Accessories:
Inside thebox you will find the player, a carrying pouch, a strap, a cleaning cloth, a pair of headphones, a USB cable, a manual.
Conclusion:
I Expected a lot from this player, being an Oppo, and with all of the previous versions and the reviews for them. I was NOT disappointed. I also thought that it being a 'touch' screen that the video playback would be less then that of my Ainol V2000Se's LTPS screen - I was amazed to find that the quality of the two are very close. The only difference I can really see is the V2000SE has better 'angle' veiwing - but then again it is a three inch screen, It's going to be right in front of you for the most part. The ID3 tag editing and File Explorer make using the S11 very easy to use and playback all of your music and video files simple with no hassles.
Overall, I am very happy with the Oppo S11I, and I would recomend it to anyone that likes a touch screen and any of the many features that this has packed into such a slim player. The only things I found to be lacking was the Micro SD memory card reader only supports up to a 2GB memory card - I have a 4GB and an 8Gb SDHC memory cards, and it would just stop at the 'Starting' screen if they were used - the 2GB loaded without any hesatation from the player. The Second being that there is no option to delete or move any files on the S11 without the add of a PC. *This product is ordered from allPMP.com. I cannot guarantee that this review can reflect the quality of the player sold anywhere else.*
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Digital player / radio - 2.3 oz - WAV, WMA, AAC, Audible, MP3, ADPCM - Radio, Voice recorder, Photo playback, Video playback - Display: Color - 320 x 240 - 2.5" - TFT
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