I took my iRiver H10 back to Best Buy at lunch today before the warranty ran out.
I really liked it for the first couple of weeks; it really helped with my time on the elliptical at the gym, listening to music and lectures. Good stuff.
But last week, it started to act… peculiar. It would only play maybe 3 songs before going silent, and I’d have to manually start the next song. That’s a hassle when you’re on an eliptical. Then Saturday, it came on all by itself and froze. I couldn’t turn it off; the off switch wasn’t working. I let the battery run down, then plugged it back in. Seemed to be working again, but with 3 days left on the waranty, I didn’t want to take any chances.
I turned it back in and bought an Apple 30g Picture iPod. I’ll charge it tonight and see how I like it at the gym tomorrow.
Chasing the Wind 
I sleep with mine. I hope this won’t make it act peculiar later on.
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Yah mine froze, but ipods freeze too…. you just run down the battery and it will work. 😆
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The iRiver H10 is Candly Floss, it looks real tempting, tastes wonderfully sweet, but is done in 2 minutes; in other words, it’s all eye candy. Unfortunately eye candy is about all it is. IMHO the H10 isn’t even good enough to serve as a door stop, and iRiver’s customer service is even worse than the microscopic bugs that hide under the carpet.
The H10 sucks for a lot of reasons: button layout, dollar-store condom case, MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) default, and ridiculously overblown battery life claims. Unless you love Windows XP SP2 and Windows Media Player 10 this isn’t the player to buy. Microsoft’s specification for MTP shows that it can work with other versions of Windows, but iRiver seems to have chosen to skimp on support, strange coming from a company that has in the past put out players that have been compatible with most systems.
I swear at this damn player every time I try to put it in the condom case. Almost every time I slide it in I unconsciously interrupt a podcast I’m listening to. The buttons on the side are poorly placed, a top placement would have been much more strategic.
The condom case is ugly, and it feels as if I’m about to rip it apart. The clip part of the case is very strong, but the case itself is so flimsy that it’s difficult to slide the player in single-handed. The other day I was checked out my local dollar store, and spotted the exact case used by iRiver. Obviously they spent a lot of money on the finishing details of the H10 package. *g*
There is a way of getting the player to work with other applications and other operating systems, a way of getting it to switch to UMS mode, but it involves pulling the battery every time you want to sync, and that HAS to be really hard on overall battery life!
Numerous support requests to iRiver have gone unanswered, and from a number of forums, it seems like there are a whole lot of unhappy H10 owners who’ve simply been ignored by iRiver, so they could put out their next hunk of junk and repeat the process.
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I suspect you’ve written that before. 😛
I would have preferred to use Windows Media Player 10, and in fact, that’s what I’m currently using with the Palm Lifedrive / pTunes combination I’m using now. I couldn’t get iTunes to recognize an iPod and eventually gave up there.
I don’t think moving the buttons to the top of the H10 would work. How would you push the player into the case?
I liked the little player until it locked up, but I’m glad I got my money back.
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i have an iriver h10 and i love it, idk wat ur talking about. i use yahoo usic unlimited and i can download unlimited songs are $5 a month. I rly like it. I only go thte iriver because the ipod doesn’t work with yahoo! IRIVERS ARE SO SEXII!!
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“Sexii” is a term I’ve never seen before.
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