Product Description

SD/MMC card reader and MP3 player that you can upgrade memory depending on your budget. Memory prices keep falling down day by day, so you can simply use this device as a high capacity memory MP3 player at an affodable price.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47663 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sumvision
• Model: XT105
• Dimensions: 1.97" h x .59" w x 2.48" l, 1.10 pounds

Features

• XT105's built in Secure Digital/MMC Card slot allows you to insert up to a 1GB memory card for maximum music or data storage. Since you're not dependant on internal memory, you can insert and remove memory cards whenever you wish.
• Memory card prices are falling each day making the SnowFox increasingly versatile, especially due to many digital cameras and PDAs using the same type of memory.
• Multi-codec playback (MP3, WMA, and WAV) along with voice recording adds to the player's impressive repertoire. What's especially impressive about this well constructed little player is how easy and intuitive it is to operate.
• the player can operate as an SD/MMC Card reader and writer.
• With infinite memory expansion possibilities and Secure Digital cards to suit every budget

Manufacturer's Description
Massive memory expansion - mini price! The SnowFox XT105's built in Secure Digital/MMC Card slot allows you to insert up to a 1GB memory card for maximum music or data storage. Since you're not dependant on internal memory, you can insert and remove memory cards whenever you wish. Memory card prices are falling each day making the SnowFox increasingly versatile, especially due to many digital cameras and PDAs using the same type of memory. Unlike many cheap competing players, the high quality SnowFox features a sharp backlit LCD display that displays ID3 tags, battery life, play mode and more. Multi-codec playback (MP3, WMA, and WAV) along with voice recording adds to the player's impressive repertoire. What's especially impressive about this well constructed little player is how easy and intuitive it is to operate. There's no messing around with complex button combinations or unnecessary features - things are kept simple. Sound quality is crisp and the player is made from thick glossy white plastic providing it with a contemporary finish. Unlike USB flash sticks which are not much more than memory chips, the SnowFox is multi-functional; it appears as a removable disk drive when connected to your PC meaning that it can act as a USB storage device. As well as this, the player can operate as an SD/MMC Card reader and writer. If you throw in its music playback abilities and voice recording features - you've got a 4 in 1 box of tricks. With infinite memory expansion possibilities and Secure Digital cards to suit every budget - the SnowFox is a highly versatile player, made even more remarkable by the great price! The SnowFox features no internal memory you require to buy or use your own Secure Digital or MMC memory cards with the player.

Customer Reviews

A good piece of hardware for the price.
I think this is a great piece of hardware for the price but I want to give a fair review based on design and performance.

Firstly design. Overall the player is light and compact but has a few minor flaws. The most obvious one is the battery cover which looks and feels flimsy although with care should not get broken.

The second one is the SD/MMC card port. The procedure for inserting and ejecting the card into player is to push it in. I've read a review on the net in which the writers player was damaged due to this (I would assume the card becomes misaligned and unreadable). I could believe this which is why when either inserting or ejecting I apply even pressure on both ends of card.

These flaws with care taken will not have serious impact on the lifespan or enjoyment of the player.

The next part of review is the performance of the MP3 player.

Apart from a little annoying flaw where tracks are not read alphabetically, although this can be easily remedied, the firmware is good. After a little practise the menu system can be easily navigated and features accessed quickly.

Music files can be stored in a directory structure on card and can be easily navigated via player keys. I have stored my albums via artist then album making what I want to listen to easy to find.

The sound quality is pretty good and for a change the EQ settings make a noticeable change to the music.

Overall, there are MP3 players on the market that have better features but for the price and the ability to change memory cards and thus increase the memory size albeit having to change the card, it is good value for money.

Cheap as Chips Audiophile
The price is unbeleiveable and the product does feel cheap; but the sound quality is far better than many players I have heard, just upgrade the headphone and find another way of securing it.

The manual is great entertainment, I have posted parts of it in forums to great hilarity; the display from the box is hard to read but is adjustable in brightness and contrast.

Minor gripes... there is no pause button and if you use the stop it turns off almost at once, and the SD card is exposed so minor knocks can cause a read error; happens a lot to me when exercising.

(I read the posting about damaging the reader, cant see how unless they tried to force the card in the wrong way, ditto no problems changing the battery with my big hands).

If you use voice record it seems to block everything else on the card; used it once on a card that was 1/2 full and could not access the music files afterwards.

On the plus side cheap enough to give to the kids and not worry about them breaking it; I have used mine for 18 months and even dropped it in the bath and it still works ( took days to dry out in airing cupboard ).

With SD cards costing as little as £5 for 1Gb this gives you a great little player for just over a tenner.

Cheap but a bizarre design.
As an example of design quirkiness at an affordable price this MP3 SD player is hard to beat, but as your main portable music source - I don't think so. I bought this to play my SD based stuff while my PDA was away being repaired and for this it has sufficed.
The unit's overall sound is pretty good, it plays WMA files and can be used as a memo recorder (do people really do that?), it is compact and reasonably stylish looking, rectangular but rounded, fridge white rather than I-Pod white but light to carry and useable.
Everything else about the device is, well, quirky. Putting in the battery involves solving a sort of Chinese puzzle, requiring great strength combined with watchmaker dexterity. With the battery in place your next surprise it that the display is almost, but not quite, unreadable. Making sure you have good light, outdoors but with high cloud cover is best, you carefully angle the unit until you can see the main body of the text - remember what it said because you will no longer be able to read it when you adjust the angle to check the microscopic row of hieroglyphs in the shadow at the top of the screen.
Next weird design innovation is with the ear bud headphones. These are grey, unlike the rest of the unit, have a round plastic device (which you at first hope might be a remote control but turns out to be a release clip for a tiny piece of cord securing the phones to the player), and has leads which are about a foot long and are mostly made of string. They sound OK, but this is irrelevant as nobody would ever wear them. The loop of string makes it look like you have borrowed Larry Grayson's spectacles and have a naff white medallion bouncing about on your solar plexus (there is no belt clip on the player), or, presumably, in the case of the fuller-figured lady, tucked uncomfortably into the cleavage. You'll quickly replace them with a proper set.
The cardboard box the device is supplied in is superb, sturdy, shiny and with a wonderful magnetic lock. It is way too good for the unit and will quickly be earmarked for collections of small, useful, thingamajigs from around the house.
Finally the pièce de résistance; the instruction manual. This is a surrealist masterpiece. It is as much use as a source of useful information as a BT call centre. Translated word by word from an oriental language it transports you to a Manga-like world where "CD" becomes "Light Dish" and your attention is drawn, with a deep sense of menace and foreboding, to warnings such as: "The in bar of data in the MP3 throws to lose, at connect computer before certainly close the MP3 power supply, if conjunction computer have no any manifestation, please check broadcast the MP3 player or with its conjoint USB connection the line if the conjunction is good". Superb and worth the money alone!