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SoundsGood
Tuesday September 12, 2000 - 1:50 AM EST - By James Hromadka

Hardware buttons

Side of Visor+SoundsGoodWhen playing a song, the Play hardware button's LED is lit.  You can adjust this to be off, low, or high.  I recommend having this light on when playing, as you may forget that a song is playing or accidentally press a button when the headphones are out.  The SoundsGood's buttons have been designed to minimize accidentally pressing them, but at the same time you have to press a little harder to use them.

Here are the buttons and their defaults:
Button
Press once
Play/Pause Press once to play & again to pause
Next/FFW Skip to next MP3
Prev./Rewind Skip to previous MP3
Volume Wheel Increase/Decrease Volume (Press in and hold to run AudioPlayer)

Playing songs is just like a normal CD player. AudioPlayer does not have skins like the MiniJam does, but the button layout is pretty good so there isn't really anything to change.  I like the waveform, and I think this is a nice way to show just how close to a normal computer the Visor can come.  Thankfully, the Stop button acts like Pause and doesn't reset the track counter.

You can also play music while in other applications.  Use the hardware buttons on the SoundsGood to change tracks, start/stop the player, and adjust the volume.  I noticed no slowdown when in other applications.  When in another application, press the Volume wheel in (like many cell phones) to return quickly to the AudioPlayer application.  You can even start playing music on the SoundsGood, put the Visor in the cradle, and run a HotSync with no problems!  AudioPlayer does stop, however, when transferring MP3 files.

Battery Life

The SoundsGood is rated at 10 hours (yes 10 hours) of battery life using the Visor's batteries.  During my testing, most of the battery drain I saw came during file transfer, so this seems to be accurate.  Don't worry about a sleep mode on the SoundsGood -- no extra battery juice is used unless the SoundsGood is playing a song.  Kudos to Good Technology for using as little of the Visor's battery as possible.

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Product Details
Name: SoundsGood
Company: Good Technology
Size: 2.13" x 2.22" x .35"
Weight: 0.8 oz.
Memory: 16K on Visor when inserted
Hard Cover Compatible: Yes
Price: $269.00


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