iRiver has carved itself quite a name in the digital media player market, with a range of feature-rich devices.
One of its latest offerings, the S10, is a small player designed to go head-to-head with Apple's popular iPod Shuffle.

Want something with more oomph than an iPod Shuffle? iRiver has a high-feature alternative.
10 May 2007
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Overall A little more expensive than most players of its ilk but a great little device nonetheless.
iRiver has carved itself quite a name in the digital media player market, with a range of feature-rich devices.
One of its latest offerings, the S10, is a small player designed to go head-to-head with Apple's popular iPod Shuffle.
In its favour, the S10 has a number of features that the Shuffle doesn't. The most obvious of these is the screen, which displays text and images.
Here, you can view what’s playing, a built-in graphic equaliser, photos or and videos. However, the screen's low resolution limits their usefulness.
In addition to music playback – which can be of any mp3, WMA, ASF or OGG track – the iRiver S10 also has an FM radio, an audio recorder, clock and a photo slideshow feature.
Because of the player's small size, iRiver has designed a novel control system. Menus are navigated by pressing the top, bottom and sides of the screen, which gives a satisfying click when selected.
Both 1GB and 2GB versions of the player comes with iRiver’s Plus 3 music application, which searches through your computer and catalogues all the music and photos it finds. Transferring it to the S10 is a simple case of plugging it in to a USB port and selecting the media files tracks you want.
The S10 is supplied with a decent pair of headphones and outputs good, balanced sound. The headphones are combined into a necklace, which allows the player to hang like a pendant around the neck. Although this design may proffer stret cred, it actually makes it quite difficult to and operate; a longer or elasticated cord would be more useful.
Although more expensive than the iPod Shuffle, the S10 is around the same size and comes with handier features.
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