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| Belkin Voice Recorder for iPod (White) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Belkin
Category: CE
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $14.99
You Save: $45.00 (75%)
New (41) Used (1) from $14.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 3 x 9 x 6
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: F8E462
Model: F8E462
UPC: 722868467756
EAN: 0722868467756
Release Date: October 24, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not worth the money March 9, 2004
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Drains battery life too quickly. Jams up the iPod too easily. When recording live music you end up with nothing but white noise. Worthless to me. I'm waiting to see how the Griffin voice recorder does when it comes out in April 04.
Hardly Worth It March 9, 2004
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
I needed this device to record myself speaking/preaching to small and large groups, mic'd and un-mic'd. I wanted to use it as my personal timer (luminated display the whole time)and to archive my sermons. I was also hoping the quality would be good ENOUGH (knew it wouldn't be great) to distribute the sound file on the web or on CD. As one other reviewer pointed it, IT'S TOO SENSITIVE! My own, natural speaking voice, un-mic'd to a group of 50 people was too much. Almost every sentence peaks out and gets distorted. Very disappointing. Too bad there isn't a way to control the input level. I didn't even bother using it when I was in a large room, full of 500, using a lapel microphone.The other problem is that it doesn't seem to be totally compatible with the iPod's (3rd Gen.) firmware. It continually freezes, and so I had to play with it 5 minutes before, knowing it would hang up, hard-re-boot, then have it ready to hit record after I knew it would work. Hardly worth it.
drains ipod battery in an hour March 9, 2004
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought the voice recorder today and tested it before using it to record a lecture. It worked fine, sound quality was not too good but what do you expect, it's a voice recorder. The real problem revealed itself when I took it to the lecture. It worked for about an hour, while completely draining the iPod battery. An hour after the recording began the ipod just turned off and the low battery icon barely came on. When I got home I saw that the file didn't even get saved.
I have a new iPod and the battery was fully charged. Lecture recording is listed as one of the uses for the voice recorder and that's the only reason why I needed this device and that's where it failed me. I believe that Belkin should discontinue this item until it is improved, or put the time / battery limitation on the box instead of bragging about "hundreds of hours." I am returning this item tomorrow.
 The recorder is WAY too sensitive February 23, 2004
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm an opera singer and bought the Belkin Voice Recorder to record my performances, practices, etc... however, it turns out to be completely useless for my needs. ANYTHING LOUDER THAN A VOICED-WHISPER WILL BE WILDLY DISTORTED, AND COME OUT AS WHITE NOISE. It's too bad there are no other microphones for the iPod, and that this product has absolutely no versatility, but now that I know Apple, it's not at all surprising....
 Not Bad. February 2, 2004
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This device is great for recording voice. I tried recording voice from the back of a room, and it was very hard to understand it. I needed to be closer to get better quality. I wouldn't use this to record live music events, it will not work. If you want to record memos, or voice in a room, this is a great device. The files are saved in WAV format, and are pretty small. I didn't have any battery issues with this device, but I only recorded for about one hour...
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