Amazon.co.uk Review
It's small, it's light, it's shiny and the brushed aluminium case of the Saehan MP-F35 MP3 Player contains more than just a music player. The play controls are arranged in a neat circle on the front of the player, with an LCD that shows what tune you're playing and what quality it was encoded at, as well as the volume, battery life and which function you're using. There are more controls on the side for using the radio, the voice recorder and the memo tools and a helpful reminder of what you can do on the back.
The player really is small and light: it's barely the size of a pack of cards and weighs only a couple of ounces so it will fit almost anywhere. If you want to keep it in your pocket, the main controls are duplicated on a clip-on remote control on the wire of the little in-ear headphones. These give a fair sound that picks up most of the details in the music. If you want to upgrade the headphones, you can get a better sound, but you'll lose the handy remote controls.
If you run out of music to listen to--the included 32 MB of memory will only give you half-an-hour of good quality music at 128 kbps--you can either add a separately available 64 MB SmartMedia card, or you can tune in to the FM radio. Tuning into a station with the player controls is a little haphazard but you can use the MPMan Manager software to preset a station by giving the name and frequency--as well as transferring MP3 files to the player, uploading voice recordings you've made on the player (in WAV format) and making a list of notes and telephone numbers to store on the player for reference. You have to type the numbers in by hand though: you can't import them from an address book.
There's no power supply so if you want to save the single AA battery for playing music, leave the USB cable plugged in and the player will draw power from that. You should get several days of music out of a single battery, depending on how much you play it and the USB connection means files transfer quickly--20-odd seconds for a standard three-minute song. It doesn't have a catchy name and it's a bit light on memory, but the MP-F35 has some useful extras and it's extrememly portable. --Mary Branscombe