Amazon.com Product Review
Amazon.com Product DescriptionSylvania's SMPK8858 video MP3/MP4 player lets you enjoy your favorite media on a brilliant, 2.8-inch touchscreen. Easily navigate to favorite music, videos, text files or games on the go. Take voice memos, or transport files as you would with a USB storage device. The SMPK8858 packs plenty of features into an affordable, attractive package.
Enjoy your favorite media on a brilliant, 2.8-inch touchscreen. Click to enlarge. |
Enjoy video in landscape view. |
View control diagram. Click to enlarge. |
Full-Color LCD Touchscreen The SMPK8858 features a 2.8-inch TFT LCD touchscreen for easy navigation of your media and other features.
Enjoy video clips in vibrant color, or share images with your friends.
Video Playback Use the included software to convert your favorite clips to AVI format, then take them anywhere you go.
Audio Playback Play back MP3, MP4 and WMA files. ID3 tag support means track info such as artist or song title is displayed on screen for your reference.
Image Viewing Enjoy and share your JPG or BMP images in full color.
Voice Recording Use the built-in microphone to take voice memos, record meetings or lectures, or anything else you need for later.
USB Storage Device Need to take a few files with you besides your media? The SMPK8858 shows up as a USB drive, so you can just drag and drop for easy transfer.
Text Viewing View TXT-format text files anywhere, anytime.
What's in the Box Sylvania 8GB MP3/MP4 Player with 2.8-Inch Color Touch Screen (Black), Earphones, User's Manual
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
(86 customer reviews) 161 of 167 people found the following review helpful
Pretty Good-But Little Side Note:,
July 30, 2009 J. Willis - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sylvania 8 GB Video/MP3/MP4 Player with 2.8" Touch Screen and Expandable Memory Slot (Electronics)
This mp3 is a pretty good mp3. Only $70 for an 8gig touchscreen. The graphics are pretty good too. When I first opened it half of the keys on the touchscreen wouldnt work. I was soo mad and was ready to send it back for a refund. Then i saw a little note in the corner of one of the instruction paqckets i got:
"Before using this product, initial touchscreen adjustment is required.
- Press 'settings' option on the main menu, enter into submenu.
- Press 'System' option on the submenu and choose 'Touch Calibration',
use pen [i use finger] to proofread cross center for 3 tims."
This totally made the touchscreen work perfectly! Do this before you get mad like i did! Very good picture, vid and music quality. While playing a song you can go thru a list of all your songs and pick out one which is much easier than going thru a million songs to get to one like some of my previous mp3s. I would very much recommend this.
70 of 73 people found the following review helpful
Very Much A Budget Player,
March 31, 2010 Veil_Lord - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sylvania 4 GB Video/MP3/MP4 Player with 2.8" Touch Screen and Expandable Memory Slot (Electronics)
I got this for my wife as a small gift. She wanted something with a bigger screen than her Sansa to watch her videos on. I think we paid maybe $50-$60 for it at the time. The unit is decent, but very obviously a budget device.
First the good stuff. The screen is big and easy to see and the touch screen is pretty cool on something so inexpensive. The player uses a standard mini-USB connector so I can charge the device for her with the same chord I use for my PDA and my MP3 player. I also really liked the included software. While it's not as user friendly as the software that came with her SanDisk Sansa Fuze, it has almost never choked on a video file. The Sansa software was big, cumbersome, and often failed halfway through a conversion. The Sylvania software has failed on a total of two weirdly compressed files off the...Read more
64 of 67 people found the following review helpful
Does what it's supposed to do,
November 15, 2009 Mark - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sylvania 8 GB Video/MP3/MP4 Player with 2.8" Touch Screen and Expandable Memory Slot (Electronics)
Ok so I was looking for a decent portable media player with a decent amount of storage without having to fork out $200. I chose to take a chance on this one.
So the first thing you do is turn it on and start messing with the interface - Verdict? The touchscreen does it what's supposed to - lets you tell the thing what to do. It isn't anywhere close to what you get with the I-Touch. One of the little annoying quirks is if you are watching a video and want to stop that video and do something else like say, watch another video, listen to a song, read an "E-Book" (text document), or look at the picture, while it can be done, the little back arrow in the far right bottom corner is the least responsive button on the screen. It just doesn't want to do it. You end up having to hit it a bunch of times and then it works. Sometimes I resort to just turning the player off and back on which effectively gets back to the menu but it's annoying.
OK so now you start loading the...Read more
