Monolith Premium MX700 MP3 Player
December 21st, 2005 10:18 AM | by Christen da Costa | 3 Comments
Apparently, this isn’t just another MP3 player. The aluminum casing has not been screwed or glued together, but fused in special manufacturing process called x-Protect. To further their claim to fame, somebody tested the MX700’s durability by running it over with a car, shooting the MX700 with a BB gun, and even hurled it against a brick wall and it wouldn’t break. Supposedly not much bigger the your average cigarette lighter (7.8cm high), it does support a bevy of features, including line in MP3 encoding, FM radio recording (you can even set up times to record), multi format playback (MP3, WMA, OGG, WMA DRM files), 19 hours of playback time, and other needless but yet somewhat cool features. Fear not, its USB 2.0 and its display is a 2 color 6 gray scale OLED. Memory capacity is a little on the small size - 512MB, but I suppose that is the price you pay for fashion and small size.
Check out more details here for $155.
Via DAPReview
[...] Remember that semi-indestructible MP3 player called the Monolith MX7000 that we featured back in December? Well, its back and sporting a larger 1GB and 2GB capacity (original size was 512MB). Notables of the past and present player are the player’s slick aluminum finish and the fact that it could take a bullet - albeit a BB gun bullet - be run over by a car, and hurled against a brick wall and keep on playing. Other features included a 19-hour playback time, line in recording, FM recording, and compatibility with multiple audio encoding formats. [...]
[...] Mrs. Militantplaypus’ next birthday gift The aluminum casing has not been screwed or glued together, but fused in special manufacturing process called x-Protect. To further their claim to fame, somebody tested the MX700’s durability by running it over with a car, shooting the MX700 with a BB gun, and even hurled it against a brick wall and it wouldn’t break. [...]
Do not buy this player!!!! I have had one for several months and it has been nothing but trouble! Recently it has ceased to be recognised via the USB connection leaving me with the same selection of songs for weeks now. Unless you are in the dark the mirrored screen is totally unreadable and the manufacturers web site may as well be non-existent as its all in Korean (www.estarlab.com). Not that they reply to angry users anyway! All in all - avoid avoid avoid !!!!