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iRiver Spinn
It's not often that manufacturers move away from the tried and tested. They can't be blamed for that - if it works, why change it? Well, gladly iRiver are not a manufacturer that applies this sort of logic - as you'll see with their brand new Spinn.
Spinn - a new concept
What makes the Spinn such a different player? First off, it's easier to say what it's not. It's not a gimmick that has one outstanding feature and disappointing specs under the hood. What iRiver have done is take the best player they can physically make with today's technology and then apply a revolutionary operating system that makes everything else seem clumsy. Touch screen is a major talking point in today's market, but very few players do it well. No matter how well it is implemented, you will always lose a tactile interaction with the setting or menu function. Well, with the Spinn, this isn't an issue. It uses a large touch screen, but adds a unique analogue spin dial on the edge of the player to move through menus. Combining the best of both, with the simplicity that's made iRiver products so great in recent years. 
Technology
Component wise, it's easy to produce a player with a gimmick and rely on that gimmick to make it sell. It's far more difficult to produce something genuinely class leading with top-notch custom technology and then package it in such a way that it's attractive to the gadget freak and the fashion conscious market at the same time. The Spinn, without a doubt, comfortably straddles those markets. 
Screen
The first thing you'll notice about the stunningly slim Spinn is the huge 3.3" screen it packs into such a pocketable player. This is fully touch screen and accordingly robust, resolution is a class-leading 480 X 272 (WQVGA). Perhaps the most stunning thing about it however, is the ground-breaking AMOLED screen. This is the largest AMOLED screen to be fitted to a portable player and it's simply eye-popping. Colours are crisp and clear, brightness is amazing and the contrast surpasses anything possible with LCD. This is due to the way AMOLED works. Traditional LCDs use a mask layer of pixels that obscure a backlight. So, in action, the colours on the screen are actually cutting out light from the backlight. With AMOLED, there is no backlight - the screen pixels themselves emit the light. This makes the final display brighter that you could create with a similar LCD. It also alleviates the viewing angle issue that some LCD screens suffer - the AMOLED screen is viewable from any angle. 
Audio
iRiver built their name making the best sounding MP3 players money could buy. They haven't forgotten this legacy and continue it with the Spinn. It continues the support iRiver have traditionally had for high quality audio codecs and adds the FLAC lossless codec to the fold. Impressive, when you consider the player also supports MP3, WMA, OGG, ASF and APE. Of course, the story doesn't end there. Great codec support is nothing if the player doesn't offer a superb Digital Analogue Converter and the Spinn doesn't skimp. Effects also come from SRS WOW processing. Without doubt, one of the most crystal clear, yet effortlessly punchy sound outputs we've ever heard from an MP3 player.
Bluetooth
Becoming more and more accepted as the wireless accessory protocol of choice, the time is now right for iRiver to include it in a player. With some really top quality bluetooth headphones available from major manufacturers now, you'll be amazed what a difference it makes, not having cables to tangle and get in the way! Features: - Sleek SPINN System (Analog Toggle Wheel)
- 3.3” QVGA AMOLED(480 x 272)
- BLUETOOTH 2.0 / Touch Screen
- Plays up to 25 hours(Music), 5 hours(Video)
- Supports music file of MP3, WMA, OGG, APE, FLAC
- Supports video file of MPEG4 SP, WMV9 SP, XVID SP
- Flash Lite 2.1 & 3D acceleration chip
- Displays album information of the song currently playing
- FM radio and recording
- Voice recording / Text Viewer
- Photo album + Slide show
- Movie player / FLASH player + Game
- UCI (User Create Interface) Function
- Alarm with real-time clock
- PodCasting and Audiobook Support
- SRS WOW HD Support
- USB 2.0, Ultra fast data transfer
- Firmware Upgradeable
- MSC/MTP conversion support, PFD support
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