Listen to 72 Hours of "Cry Me a River" on The New iRiver F700

The iFP700 series is a line of flash MP3 players with built-in FM tuner that were launched by iRiver back in April 2004. After 3 years of presumably hard work, iRiver revealed this April its latest model that will complete the iFP700 series: the 4GB iRiver F700 portable digital audio player. It's still a player that captures audio and plays lots of "Cry me a river" tunes.

It has nothing to do with United States Air Force's stealth technology though, as the "F" in the name probably suggests. Its basic functions include music search, playback stop, sound recording, button layout, equalizer and bit rate setting.

The F700 Recording Edition is lightweight, boasts a compact design and a striking music playback. It now comes with a line-in jack for directly encoding audio from a CD player, a microphone, or another outside source. It also records FM radio directly from its integrated tuner.

Its file transfer speed remains the same (sloooow) as in the previous versions, but it has some extra storage force though. The F700 can store up to 4GB of stuff (about 72 hours of full stereo music recording or 288 hours of voice). Its single dry cell battery allows you to run away with it only for 47 hours though (compressed rates of 128 KBS, Normal EQ and Volume 20, in case the back light is off). It supports MP3, OGG, or WMA tracks.

The Japanese branch is selling the Recording Edition of the player in 2 flavors (black or silver) for 3,000 Yen (about 191 US $). It will also be released "later" in the US.

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