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Summary: A very small, easy to use, durable pocket recorder .
Review: Almost two years ago I wrote a review on the VT300. I recently bought another (I'm sold on these great thought catchers) and found that VXI has moved to a AAA battery. A significant (and cheeper) advance over the four CR-2025 lithium batteries! Like most harried Americans I have a life on the run. I find myself always in need of a scrap of paper and a pen to jot down fleeing thoughts. "Voice It" has helped simplified my beleaguered world by giving me the quick ability to capture my retreating memories. The VT300 is a solid performer, and the battery life has improved significantly over the first VXI models. The sound quality is better, its playback volume (though not adjustable) is sufficient and the microphone sensitivity is appropriate. I like the layout of the buttons. They are tactical and easily felt when driving or in the dark of night. I often leave my VT300 by my bed side where I can reach pick it up and capture my last thought before sleep. I also found the "Voice It" to be a great device for recording your dreams in the middle of the night. I found the recorder to be most durable. I have sat on it, dropped it and spit coffee on it yet like the bunny, it runs and runs. I commend buying "Voice It 300", over the VT90, as the difference in price is slight ([amt]). For those, like me, with porous memories, this very small, easy to use, pocket recorder will be continually used. Highly Recommended
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Summary: A very small, easy to use, durable pocket recorder .
Review: Almost two years ago I wrote a review on the VT300. I recently bought another (I'm sold on these great thought catchers) and found that VXI has moved to a AAA battery. A significant (and cheeper) advance over the four CR-2025 lithium batteries! Like most harried Americans I have a life on the run. I find myself always in need of a scrap of paper and a pen to jot down fleeing thoughts. "Voice It" has helped simplified my beleaguered world by giving me the quick ability to capture my retreating memories. The VT300 is a solid performer, and the battery life has improved significantly over the first VXI models. The sound quality is better, its playback volume (though not adjustable) is sufficient and the microphone sensitivity is appropriate. I like the layout of the buttons. They are tactical and easily felt when driving or in the dark of night. I often leave my VT300 by my bed side where I can reach pick it up and capture my last thought before sleep. I also found the "Voice It" to be a great device for recording your dreams in the middle of the night. I found the recorder to be most durable. I have sat on it, dropped it and spit coffee on it yet like the bunny, it runs and runs. I commend buying "Voice It 300", over the VT90, as the difference in price is slight ([amt]). For those, like me, with porous memories, this very small, easy to use, pocket recorder will be continually used. Highly Recommended
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Summary: Worked for my needs, but flawed
Review: As a songwriter/general idea person -- one with a terrible memory -- this was a great little machine. Simple (I don't need multiple folders or shuffle play) and really small. However, like all the VoiceIt models, it has one major flaw, and that is that the buttons protrude -- they stick out. This means that keys in your pocket or the side of a desk you lean against can press the "play" button, and it's very embarrassing when your pocket starts talking! Worse, on more than one occasion, the "erase all" button was pressed and I lost everything. It doesn't take a genius to see this is a bad design, but these guys turned out several models with the same problems. I recommend against any brand that has a protruding "erase" button.
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Summary: Very useful little gadget
Review: I bought one of the early Voice-It's several years ago when they were about $129, twice as expensive for the same amount of RAM, and I found it to be about as useful and convenient a little device as I had ever owned. This was in the days before I had a Palm Pilot, and I used it in conjunction with my Franklin Planner. I would dictate notes and later I would transfer them to the larger notebook-based planner if needed. Having this little gadget made it unnecessary for me to haul the larger Franklin notebook with me much of the time, and I found this extremely useful. It was easy to operate and small enough to fit in your front shirt pocket without any bulk. On the downside it did occasionally run into some sort of glitch and then it would erase all the messages, but that was rare. This newer model looks like it writes them to flash ROM, so that would eliminate this problem. I now do most of my notetaking on my Palm Pilot, but if I couldn't have that, I would again buy one of these nifty little gadgets for all those miscellaneous little notes that seem to clutter up one's life. Another very nice feature of the solid-state memory is that you can instantly page forward and backward to go to the message you want, rather than having to play with the forward and reverse buttons on a tape recorder trying to find the message, and then find the beginning of a message. With solid-state memory, you just hit the button to advance to the next one, and it starts right off at the exact beginning of the message. I never really used the capability to have up to four separate folders, but the instant-access feature without having to thrash around searching for things is very nice. All in all a very useful and convenient little device that is well worth the money invested.
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Summary: Cool Audio Tool
Review: I bought this for my child who has auditory problems (age 9). It has been a *great* tool for him to get his writing ideas down as he thinks them. Then he can replay them and write out what he was thinking. The buttons are simple to use and understand (that's why I chose it for him). It's small enough to fit comfortably in a pocket. Seems pretty rugged. I also use one of these to record ideas for poems and songs when I'm on the road. Though the sound fidelity is not great, it does let me capture the moment. You can capture a lot of vocalized ideas in the 3 minutes or so of recording time. Pros: easy to use, small and thin (compared to similar products), you can change the battery without losing what you recorded Cons: sound fidelity is not great, more recording time would be better
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Summary: Cool Audio Tool
Review: I bought this for my child who has auditory problems (age 9). It has been a *great* tool for him to get his writing ideas down as he thinks them. Then he can replay them and write out what he was thinking. The buttons are simple to use and understand (that's why I chose it for him). It's small enough to fit comfortably in a pocket. Seems pretty rugged. I also use one of these to record ideas for poems and songs when I'm on the road. Though the sound fidelity is not great, it does let me capture the moment. You can capture a lot of vocalized ideas in the 3 minutes or so of recording time. Pros: easy to use, small and thin (compared to similar products), you can change the battery without losing what you recorded Cons: sound fidelity is not great, more recording time would be better
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Summary: VXI ruined a great thing
Review: I faithfully carried a Voice-It in my shirt pocket from 1994 to 1999. In the beginning, the line was owned by a small company in Fort Collins, Colorado--where I lived at the time. One day I left my Voice-It in my pocket in the laundry. I took it to the Voice-It office, and they repaired it--no questions asked. Forward 3 years. I purchased another unit just after VXI began remarketing them. It stopped working within 2 months. Customer support recommended a reset process, which worked for a few days-then it stopped working again. I was then unable to speak with anyone at VXI--the CSR's couldn't do anything more, and the supervisor never returned by call. Bad customer service--and now they've lost a customer.
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Summary: Spend more get more
Review: I had been looking for such a device for a long time, something to record speech, take notes, etc. After much looking around I settled on the IAudio CW200. The 256MB or the cheaper 128MB models store hours and hours of voice AND... it's MP3 and an FM radio and it's no heaver or larger than this device. Yes it's more expensive (about 3x) but for all the extra features and one less device to carry around its well worth it. Another possibility is the iRiver iFP-180T 128 MB MP3 Player which is only about 2x also with MP3 and Voice.
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Summary: Spend more get more
Review: I had been looking for such a device for a long time, something to record speech, take notes, etc. After much looking around I settled on the IAudio CW200. The 256MB or the cheaper 128MB models store hours and hours of voice AND... it's MP3 and an FM radio and it's no heaver or larger than this device. Yes it's more expensive (about 3x) but for all the extra features and one less device to carry around its well worth it. Another possibility is the iRiver iFP-180T 128 MB MP3 Player which is only about 2x also with MP3 and Voice.
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Summary: Highly useful, durable, small and easy to operate.
Review: I up graded to the VT300 from a "Voice It" VT90. The extended recording time was the main reason. Like most harried Americans I have a life on the run. I find myself always in need of a scrap of paper and a pen to jot down fleeing thoughts. "Voice It" has helped simplified my beleaguered world by giving me the quick ability to capture my retreating memories. Now, when I have a `brain burp', and need to remember that which I will undoubtable forget, I just grab this little black device, punch record, and retain that brilliant thought that will bring forth the next great invention for our generation - like "buy T.P.." The VT300 is a solid performer, and the battery life has improved significantly over the first models. The sound quality is adequate, its playback volume (though not adjustable) is sufficient and the microphone sensitivity is appropriate. I like the layout of the buttons. They are tactical and easily felt when driving or in the dark of night. I often leave my VT300 by my bed side where I can reach pick it up and capture my last thought before sleep. I also found the "Voice It" to be a great device for recording your dreams in the middle of the night. I found the recorder to be most durable. I have sat on it, dropped it and spit coffee on it yet like the bunny, it runs and runs. I commend buying "Voice It 300", over the VT90, as the difference in price is slight ([amt]). For those, like me, with porous memories, this very small, easy to use, pocket recorder will be continually used. Recommended
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