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Freestyle 2GB Waterproof MP3 Player - Blue (200SPT2BLU) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Freestyle
Category: CE
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $52.15
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 4010
Color: Blue
Batteries Included: No
Hard Drive Size: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 6 x 2
color OLED screen to display track details
compatible with Subscription Music Services
equalizer presets
built-in rechargeable battery
lightweight, floats
MPN: 2GB/BLUE
Model: 200SPT2BLU
UPC: 184236000093
EAN: 0184236000093
ASIN: B000VXQH6W
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new, sealed, ships fast!
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Product Description
Waterproof MP3 Player
Freestyle Audio's rugged and durable Sport MP3 Player redefines portable music. The world's only waterproof and shockproof MP3 player is designed to fuel an active lifestyle, no matter the activity, intensity, or destination. Wherever life may take you Freestyle Audio allows you to bring your favorite music along for the ride. "Take your music there," and experience your own personal soundtrack in a world without limits.
Features:
- Waterproof, completely submersible up to 10 feet
- Shockresistant, durable design allows for skip free audio
- 2gb flash memory
- Supports MP3, WMA, and Protected WMA (DRM) files
- Compatible with Subscription Music Services
- Color OLED screen to display track details
- FM radio tuner with channel presets
- Equalizer presets
- Built-in rechargeable battery
- Up to 15 hours of playtime per charge
- Lightweight, floats
- Can be used with supplied waterproof earbuds, or your favorite headphones
- Functional as a storage device for files other than music
- Compatible with both PCs and MACs
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Swimming to music is wonderful - fun product August 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this about a month ago, and have used is maybe five or six times in the pool. Swimming is great exercise, but I find it tedious; so I was looking for a way to listen to the radio and MP3s while swimming, as I do while running. Since using the Freestyle, I can say that swimming to music is addictive, especially swimming to Widespread Panic ("Light Fuse - Get Away").
The pluses:
- The MP3 player works well. The sound is good. EQ, dynamics etc. seemed optimized for underwater listening.
- Volume is all you can want without damaging your hearing.
- Battery life is great (I'm still on my first charge, after maybe 6 or 7 hours).
- It is truly waterproof, so far.
- Drag and drop of music files (MP3 ripped in iTunes) and folders, through the USB hookup, works fine.
- Customer service has been way above and beyond my expectations: after using it about five times, one earbud stopped playing. I emailed Freestyle Customer Support, and they promptly sent me replacements (!) They even sent them Priority Mail, which probably wasn't necessary, as they are only a two hour drive away. It's pretty clear to me that they want to earn customer loyalty; and they have earned mine.
The negatives:
- The user interface is counterintuitive, with a steep learning curve, and buttons with many different functions depending on length of press. I mistakenly deleted a song (easily replaced) in a way that should not have occurred. There are some menu items, like "License Info", "Delete Song", "Delete All", and others, that probably shouldn't be on the menu at all. This could have been done much more simply. A menu-tree flowchart in the manual (or on the website) would have been extremely helpful. Luckily the Freestyle powers up right where you left off in the music, so if you are just listening to music while swimming, you don't have to navigate the menu system very often.
- I wish I could say the radio works well, as this was something important to me, but it is extremely subject to RF interference, more than any radio I have ever heard. I daily use several different types of Walkman radios, and a Philips MP3/FM radio, and they sound fine in my locale. The Freestyle picks up so much interference noise that I find it useless, unfortunately. Your locale may have less interference than mine, so it may work better for you.
This problem seems to be caused by both the earbud-cord antennae and the radio itself, as combining the earbuds with a Walkman degrades the Walkman's reception, but combining Sony headphones with the Freestyle still doesn't bring reception to the quality of a Walkman or Philips.
Conclusion:
On the whole, I love swimming to music so much that the Freestyle works great for me. It's much more fun than swimming without the Freestyle. It seems to be truly waterproof, it sounds good, battery life seems good, and customer service has been great.
Also, the earbuds, because they are made to keep water out of your ears, have an extremely high noise-isolation capability. I am going to try them on my next airline flight, so I can lower the music volume in my ears by not having to boost the earbuds above the aircraft noise. That would be an unexpected bonus value.
 Defective Device August 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
BOTH original device AND subsequent, replacement device were defective. Tech. support was difficult to get in touch with in the first place. (They never returned my calls. I just happened to catch someone in the office) Several messages left after second device failed were not returned. More than a week later, I still have yet to hear from them. I finally returned the device to the third party vender from whom I purchased the device. Very frustrating experience! I recommend taking a pass on this one.--the quality of the craftsmanship seems lacking and the quality of the technical support is equally suspect.
 Works well except for quality issues August 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Got this from Target and was diappointed after 2 uses. Problems encountered were: (1) instead of 2GB, capacity stopped at 500MG. (2) charging took a long time and had to be recharged after only 2 hours of use. (3) user interface taking abit getting use to. Pros: (1) small, light weight. (2) when it worked, it worked OK, sound was acceptable. Verdict: Need to improve quality. Instead, spend the extra $50 to buy the H2O housing and headset for your ipod, which is much better made than this product.
total rip off July 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This product is a total rip off. Be carefull, on the selling screen it doesn't show how little waranty they have. You must try it within the first month since purchased and when I did (I day after a month after receiving it) I was on vacations in Brazil, and it short circuited on me on my goggles in the swimming pool. So they proposed to refund it but I should send it immediately and it'd cost me about $40 to have it sent and I'd have to have the invoice with it. So guess what: GOT RIPPED OFF, wasted dollars and time on it. Yet in Brazil I bought one (MORMAII)that cost me less and it's got 2 year waranty and PLUSSSS : it works IN the water!!!
FREESTYLE told me simply: your equipment is likely to have had a WATER FAILLURE"... ow, really, what the #$%.. wasn't it supposed to be waterproof???
Waterproof - but only for 1 week July 1, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I purchased this item a week ago thinking that it would make me want to swim laps longer - and it did. The sound quality was great and I even overlooked the confusing interface because - hey - its allowing me to listen to my music while I swim laps.
It worked great for a week - or 4 days of swimming laps, and then I went to turn it on and I got "loading..." and thats as far as the screen would go. Now the screen is blue and orange and there's condensation inside the display. Now - I know what you're thinking "Hey - are you deep sea diving with this thing or swimming laps 50 ft. below the surface of your pool?" No. No I am not. I'm fairly close to the surface while I'm swimming and keep the player in its own zip compartment in my gym bag which is free from water.
So now I'm looking for another mp3 player while I try to get my money back on this piece of crap. I'm sure its great if you're going canoeing and not touching water much, but for lap swimming, it failed me.
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