Victorinox SwissBeat MP3 Player 1GB Flight Version (Silver) | 
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| Brand: Victorinox
Category: Sports
List Price: $246.00
Buy New: $221.58
You Save: $24.42 (10%)
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 135793
Color: Ruby
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8 x 3.7 x 3.1
MPN: 53190
Model: 53190
UPC: 046928531905
EAN: 0046928531905
ASIN: B000II319G
Release Date: September 12, 2006
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
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Product Description
Victorinox has been making Swiss Army knives with USB drives for a while now, but their Swiss Beat MP3 Player has got to be the first gadget that will both let you listen to Michael Boltons Time, Love and Tenderness as well as slit someones carotid artery: Swiss Beat is a removable USB flash-based 1GB music player that handles the WMA, WAV, and Ogg formats, has a built-in FM radio as well as a voice recorder that saves to mp3. It works with PCs and Macs, comes with earphones, a remote control, a belt clip and an arm strap for jogging. Oh, and the three most basic of Swiss Army Knife tools: a two inch blade, mini-scissors and a nail file.
Product Description
This "flight" version of a Swissbit MP3 digital audio player does not include Swiss Army Knife tools in its silver-metal housing so it can pass airport-security checks intact. The three-inch-long audio player stores up to 1 GB of MP3, WMA, WAV, or OGG Vorbis sound files and also includes a stereo FM radio with recording capability. The audio player plugs into any Windows or Macintosh computer with a USB port and also can be used to transport images and other data. Its lithium battery recharges automatically whenever the audio player is connected to a USB interface and lasts up to eight hours. A fetching remote control displaying the Swiss Army Knife's famed Swiss-flag logo of white cross against a red background has two earphone jacks. One set of earphones, with adjustable neck and arm straps and anti-dangling mechanism, and belt clip are included. Specifications: - Memory Capacity: 1 GB
- Dimensions: 74 x 22 x 24 mm
- Weight MP3 Player Unit: 32 grams
- MP3 Chip: STMP 3550
- Decoding Format: MP3 & WMA (8 - 320 Kbps), WAV, OGG Vorbis
- Encoding Voice, FM & Line-in WAV: (8 - 48 Kbps)
- FM Radio: Stereo, 87.5 - 108 MHz (Japan 76 - 108 MHZ)
- FM Radio Presets: 15, with automatic storage
- Display: 3 lines high-contrast backlight reverse LCD (FSDN transmissive)
- PC Interface: Standard USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
- Navigation: 4 + 1 direction key
- Headphone Output: 5 mW max (L + R at 16 ohm)
- Accumulator: 3.7 V lithium polymer
- Power Consumption: Operational 25 mA; standby 20 mA; power off 0.2 mA
- Play Time: Up to 8 hours
- Supported OS: Windows 2000/XP + 98 SE/ME with drivers; Mac OS X Version 10.2 and higher
- Operating Temperature Range: +5 C to 35 C
About Victorinox
In 1884, Swiss cutler Karl Elsener set up shop in Ibach-Schwyz, installing a waterwheel in Tobelbach Brook to run his grinding and polishing machines. Thus began what would become the international brand name Victorinox, a combination of Victoria, for Elsener's mother, and "inox," or stainless steel. Today, Victorinox produces watches, luggage, clothing, and, famously, Swiss Army Knives. The forerunner of that name dates to 1897, when Elsener patented the Swiss Officer's and Sports Knife he supplied to the Swiss Army. Following World War II, American servicemen and women shopping in PX stores shortened the name to Swiss Army Knife, which lives on in English-speaking countries around the world and has become a metaphor or versatility.
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 Cool idea, but hard to use September 19, 2007
The Swissbeat is a clever idea, combining a few useful tools with data storage and MP3 capability. The ability to separate the player from the tool holder is great for travel. However, the menus and single-button control are frustrating to say the least, especially for programming the FM radio. The FM is mono only, I've never been able to receive in stereo, even when signal strength is optimum.
 Small and practical item January 18, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great product.. bring a remote control, arm strap, easy to used, Nice usefully menu and software, it can turn of by it self, cheap comparing with an apple shuffle, i find the battery only take 8 hours playing it`s a less time for me :), but itsn`t a problem, I DON`t like the FM radio it`s poor you need to stay in a place to find a great fm station, but that it`s in my country, i don`t know if works better in your country. that`s the only i don`t like, everything it`s great...
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