According to information gathered by DAPReview from iRiver staffers at CES, the upcoming iRiver H10 has a number of negative points that may add up to making the H10 a less-than-compelling choice for buyers.
Specifically iRiver said that the H10 will only support Microsoft’s new Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) instead of the more common Mass Storage Class (MSC). While the acronyms and geek-speak may not mean much to you, it may make the H10 less useful to you. Older iRiver devices like the H120 and H320 are MSCs. This means that you can connect them to almost any computer (a Windows PC, a Mac, even a Linux box) and access the files on the device without extra software. Essentially they’re universal, portable harddrives.
However, moving to MSC may eliminate some of those features. Likely you won’t be able to connect to Macs or Linux boxes anymore. Also, older Windows systems not running the latest version of Microsoft Media Player might be out in the cold as well.
Also, even though the H10 supports line-in recording and line-out, you have to buy the $40 dock to use them.
Unlike previous iRiver models, the H10 uses a custom USB cable rather than an industry standard cable. With a standard cable, picking up a spare to connect with a second computer was easy and inexpensive. Now you’ll have to buy one from iRiver.
Still no gapless MP3 playback.
Finally, iRiver removed the volume up and down buttons. According to DAPReview, “you must be in the Now Playing screen to adjust volume”. Presumably you use the touch pad to raise and lower volume from the Now Playing screen.
taken fromthe player blog
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