Anyone Still Using the ILO?? part 2

[Pedro Narvaez]

I'm still using it, but the "left channel goes dead problem" returned
and I have to keep twisting and turning the phone jack until it works.

Other than that, it's still working great. I like it very much!

The only down side is that 256 Mb is too little space nowadays... (Sd
Card consumes battery a lot)

Maybe it´s time to move on to another player...
(Maybe not: the cool black and white screen... so cool...)

Bye

--
Pedro Narvaez
=BRAZIL=


2008/7/16 nikola99 <niko...@gmail.com>:

I haven't used mine since i got a nano... I still think back of it
with fondness... The good ol' ILO, it was fun opening it up and
fixing
the headphone every couple of months or so. Then I wrote a
little .NET
app that would sync, and download my podcasts. Fun times... Maybe
I'll
get it out of the drawer just to see if it's still working OK.

On Apr 26 2007, 8:08 pm, Pedro Narvaez <pedronarv...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello!
> Anybody there???
>
> I got my ILO256 in July 2005 and it's still working!!
> The left channel went dead 6 months ago. But I searched for some
> Tutorial, openned the ILO and put in some piece of paper to fix
the
> contacts and it worked.
> I'm using 2500mah NI-MH batteries with it and it works fine
despite
> what is said in some posts in this group.
> I'm very happy with it, it's still a very cool player.
>
> So... Anyone here wants to share some experience??
>
> =Pedro Narvaez=
> Brazil

[Monsuco]

I still have mine, but I seldom use it. I do use it as a flash drive
some, but that isn't really worth it. It takes to long for it to
figure out what is on my SD card. 2 GB cards are slow.

On Jul 17, 9:51 am, Pedro Narvaez <pedronarv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm still using it, but the "left channel goes dead problem" returned
> and I have to keep twisting and turning the phone jack until it works.
>
> Other than that, it's still working great. I like it very much!
>
> The only down side is that 256 Mb is too little space nowadays... (Sd
> Card consumes battery a lot)
>
> Maybe it´s time to move on to another player...
> (Maybe not: the cool black and white screen... so cool...)
>
> Bye
>
> --
> Pedro Narvaez
> =BRAZIL=
>

> 2008/7/16 nikola99 <nikol...@gmail.com>:

[Erich Schroeder]

I have mine, it works, but I rarely use it. When I do use it, I tend
to listen to books rather than music because it has the "resume within
the track" feature that my usual mp3 player does not.

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eks
http://vrteach.org/banjo/
http://prairiegrapevine.org/

[coffeekittie]

I just got mine out of a drawer a few days ago, and after some
fiddling with it, am using it on my scooter with speakers. Can't do
that with a harddrive device like my Zen of course, due to the bumps
in the road, so it's really cool to have :) Love that the battery is
swappable!

On Jul 18, 7:48 am, "Erich Schroeder" <vrte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have mine, it works, but I rarely use it. When I do use it, I tend
> to listen to books rather than music because it has the "resume within
> the track" feature that my usual mp3 player does not.
>

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[David Hart]

Yes I'm the owner of the list and I don't use it anymore either. I have an iPhone and (for the most part) am very happy with it. The iPhone is a fantastic device. It is not as good a pure music or audio book player as my defunct Rio Karma (which the iLo was modeled after) but it gives you a whole lot more.

The bane of all portable music players is the headphone jack. Apple tried to address the problem by recessing the jack in the first iPhone, was roundly criticized by using a non-standard jack and has now  gone back to a standard jack. Now Apple is getting criticized because cracks are appearing near the plastic casing near the jack.

What is surprising is that few alternatives seem to come forth even though this is such a common problem. Some manufacturers have tried to solve this by introducing wireless bluetooth headsets  but bluetooth has audio fidelity issues. A lossless wireless technology was introduced a couple of years ago but no one except RCA even tried it. I think that a potential solution might be some sort of induction headphone technology. 

I'm only guessing that some electronic manufactures benefit from the planned obsolesce of their products and others just don't want to admit that they have a problem.

[Mark Florence]

I've had two ILOs, the first 256mb silver egg shaped one and the 512mb orange squarish shaped one that came out a year later. I think the first one was the best, I gave it to my 10 year old son, he uses it and it still works. The second one broke only six months later, due to being dropped if I remember right.

Currently, I use a Sansa e200 which is definitely more durable that the ILO and more stable. It also has video and pictures, HOWEVER, the sound quality of the ILO is far better.

 

Mark Florence

copa...@sbcglobal.net

http://www.flickr.com/photos/copazetic/

[Symbios]

I've pretty much moved on. I mostly use an Insignia Pilot now.
Sometimes I'll dig the ilo out and listen to it because I love the
sound quality. It's amazing, the sound quality of this thing seems to
rival that of players twice its price. In fact, I'd still be using it
if they didn't cripple it with such poor firmware.

On Aug 12, 9:14 am, Mark Florence <copaze...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I've had two ILOs, the first 256mb silver egg shaped one and the 512mb orange squarish shaped one that came out a year later. I think the first one was the best, I gave it to my 10 year old son, he uses it and it still works. The second one broke only six months later, due to being dropped if I remember right.
>
> Currently, I use a Sansa e200 which is definitely more durable that the ILO and more stable. It also has video and pictures, HOWEVER, the sound quality of the ILO is far better.
>
> Mark Florence

> copaze...@sbcglobal.nethttp://www.flickr.com/photos/copazetic/

>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: David Hart <david.alan.h...@gmail.com>
> To: ILO...@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:38:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Anyone Still Using the ILO?? part 2
>
> Yes I'm the owner of the list and I don't use it anymore either. I have an iPhone and (for the most part) am very happy with it. The iPhone is a fantastic device. It is not as good a pure music or audio book player as my defunct Rio Karma (which the iLo was modeled after) but it gives you a whole lot more.
>
> The bane of all portable music players is the headphone jack. Apple tried to address the problem by recessing the jack in the first iPhone, was roundly criticized by using a non-standard jack and has now  gone back to a standard jack. Now Apple is getting criticized because cracks are appearing near the plastic casing near the jack.
>
> What is surprising is that few alternatives seem to come forth even though this is such a common problem. Some manufacturers have tried to solve this by introducing wireless bluetooth headsets  but bluetooth has audio fidelity issues. A lossless wireless technology was introduced a couple of years ago but no one except RCA even tried it. I think that a potential solution might be some sort of induction headphone technology.
>
> I'm only guessing that some electronic manufactures benefit from the planned obsolesce of their products and others just don't want to admit that they have a problem.
>

> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Pedro Narvaez <pedronarv...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm still using it, but the "left channel goes dead problem" returned
> and I have to keep twisting and turning the phone jack until it works.
>
> Other than that, it's still working great. I like it very much!
>
> The only down side is that 256 Mb is too little space nowadays... (Sd
> Card consumes battery a lot)
>
> Maybe it´s time to move on to another player...
> (Maybe not: the cool black and white screen... so cool...)
>
> Bye
>
> --
> Pedro Narvaez
> =BRAZIL=
>

> 2008/7/16 nikola99 <nikol...@gmail.com>: