Aired on July 26 2007.

The iRiver X20 Flash Player! It’s an awesome gadget. Costs about 80 dollars and you’d get 4 gig of storage!


The Iriver X20 is pretty hefty for a flash player. It measures 33 x 73.9 x 16.6mm and weighs 73g–you won’t be wearing this thing around your neck. On the plus side, this relative bulk allows for a 2.3-inch screen. No, you can’t watch a movie on it, but it’s ample for short video clips and photos.
Also you have a choice of 2 gig, 4 gig up to 8 gig of storage! The price ranges from 125 USD and up. Pretty good deal considering it’s an Iriver.

Design

To the right of the screen is a five-way control pad surrounded by an ultra-thin mechanical scroll wheel which lights up blue when activated.
The face of the X20 also features a pinhole mic for making voice recordings, and the right side offers a line-in port for that style of recording as well. For line-in, you can choose from low-, medium-, and high-quality settings, and files are saved as MP3; voice recording offers no settings and files are saved as WAV. Alongside the line-in port is a standard headphone jack, followed by a standard mini-USB port. The back of the X20 reveals two nifty features–a user-replaceable battery and dual external speakers. The bottom of the unit offers yet another compelling extra: A microSD card expansion slot for adding more memory.

Features

When you connect the iriver X20 to your computer, it acts as removable storage. Transferring files is a simple drag-and-drop affair–no software required–but if you prefer to use a jukebox, the player also works with the standard WMA players .The jukeboxes could come in handy for transferring playlists, but keep in mind that the X20 does not support subscriptions, just purchased music. It also supports a variety of unprotected audio formats including MP3, WMA, WAV and Ogg Vorbis. In addition, the player takes MPEG-4 and WMV video and JPEG images.
Once there’s some content on the device, navigating through it is a pleasantly simple task. The top menu is circular and icon-driven, with the current selection magnified in the center. Digging down into the music menu provides the standard Creative interface hierarchy, with selections sorted by artist, album, genre, and so on. The X20 also has an onboard browser for navigating via folders, if that suits your fancy. Should you get sick of your own music, you can switch over to the FM radio. The tuner offers an autoscan feature with an auto-preset function (up to 20 slots) and the battery is rated for an adequate 22 hours of juice.

Pros and Cons

Cons:
• Bulky for a flash player;
• scroll ring is a little too small for comfort;
• lacks accelerated scrolling;
• no support for music subscription.
Pros
• Good sound quality;
• feature-packed:
• voice and line-in recording;
• onboard FM radio;
• user-replaceable battery;
• microSD card expansion slot;
• dual external speakers;
• very easy to use.

I wanna give credit to cnet.com for the awesome review.=)