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Laser T9 Media Player Review
© 2011 www.pixelparadox.com

I am not a audio techie, so I was looking for an adequate (for me) alternative to the iPod, in terms of cost and quality. The Laser MP4-T9-8GBK was my last look in a long day of shopping around. At the sweet spot of $97 (even cheaper now online), I took a chance and bought it. Here are my PROS and CONS for my Laser T9 player:

PROS:

I'm listening to some really beautiful music with my Laser T9 as I write this review.

The box includes: Media Player, earphones, USB Cable, and User Manual.

The media player is made in China under the auspices of the Australian company - Laser Corporation Holding Pty. Ltd., North Ryde NSW. The website is www.laserco.net . The T9 is a high quality item, which I have dropped on the floor 5 times already with no discernible damage!

Like any other MP3 device, it takes a little while to understand the navigation. There are some nice big main function icons, and there are a lot of standard arrow-type navigation symbols as you go deeper, but there is no ENTER button for final selection or launching. Final selection of a song or other item requires you to tap the touch-screen on the item you want.

Once that is understood, the graphical interface is excellent. The device vibrates when you tap the touch-screen, so there is not doubt about the interaction. You can turn off the vibration also. The interface will automatically orient itself to landscape or portrait position depending on which way your turn the device in your hand.

The main functions are Music, Video, Photo, eBook, Radio, Voice Record, and Other (which has Stop Watch, Calendar, and directory Explorer).

The full colour 3 inch wide-screen (400x240 260K pixel) touch screen is big compared to other MP3 players. You can actually watch a movie without eye-strain. And the picture is very good. Movie formats supported are MP4, RMVB (Yahoo it), and AVI. Still picture format is JPEG. The excellent AM/FM Radio will auto-scan tune or tune manually, and the voice recorder is fine - producing WAV files in the RECORD directory. The eBook function is a bit of a mystery - seems to read text files only - with font size control.

The MP3 and WMA music quality is excellent, with manual or pre-set equalizer settings to get just the sound that you want. APE, AAC, and FLAC music formats are also supported

It's lithium battery gives you at least 3 hours of continuous playback (possibly 5 hrs). While the battery will have some charge out of the box (showing a full green bar in the battery icon), it is recommended that it be charged for a 6 to 8 hour period in the first instance to help condition the battery.

It comes with a 4 or 8 gigabyte internal flash drive. Mine is 8 gigabytes. However, you can add up to 16 more gigabytes by putting another storage card in the available card slot. It will accept micro SDHC and Micro SD cards (referred to as "TFCard" on the T9) - up to 16 GB. I added a 8 gigabyte micro SDHC card.

When you connect the Laser T9 (with an addition SD card inserted) to your computer with the included USB cable, you will see 2 additional drive letters in Windows Explorer (or its equivalent on the Macintosh). Just drop folders and files on them as you would an external USB drive. You will be able to drill down into your folders you create on the T9 with no problems.

There are sufficient system settings to allow you to visually customize the T9 to your liking.

Support is outstanding. I had questions about charging the battery, and about the micro SDHC card. Got my answers the next day.

CONS:

The included USB cable connection was extremely tight (almost too tight to push in) on the Laser T9's
5-pin Mini-B USB port. This caused my PC to frequently have trouble recognizing the Laser T9's drives. So, I discarded the included USB cable. Instead, I used a cheap (and longer) Sansai 5-Pin Mini-B USB 2.0 cable that I bought from a $2 shop for a few dollars. It was a perfect fit, and there was no more drive recognition trouble.

The included earphones were trash. So, I bought some Dolphin noise isolating ear-bud earphones, with volume control, for $7.99 at the grocery store. The volume control is necessary for me because I find even the lowest volume on the Laser T9 is too loud on some music.

The manual has no details about video codecs supported for video playback. Not all AVI or MP4 videos will play, although most will. Also, don't bother trying to play a 700 megabyte DivX video from a micro SDHC card in the extra card slot. The video will be totally jumbled in frame and audio sequence. I suspect the transfer rate is just not fast enough. Maybe it will work with smaller videos, but I haven't tried it. However; the same video will play fine from the internal flash drive. Music will be fine from both the micro SDHC card and the internal flash drive.

SUMMARY:

Love it! Superb sound quality. Great user interface. Like the touch screen. Worth the price I paid.

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