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My new free toy

Words cannot express how nifty the iriver U10 is. Between playing your music, videos, photo albums, and games this ultra-portable flash based player stands its ground no matter the occasion. Oh wait, I guess words CAN describe the U10 (512MB ). You better read some full review out there on the net or read the mini review of mine.

The interface...
is pretty intuitive, I was able to find out where to do thing quicky enough. However the lack of documentation by iRiver is impressive. There are tons of shortcuts undocumented. Some combination of long short press of a button have different action. The four side of the device is in fact a button (4 way), it also has 2 buttons for the volume and 1 as the power button and a last one as the multifunction button. Its default behavior is to switch to Landscape or Portrait mode.
Yes, it is cool to be able to display things the way you want.
And yeah, it is simple.

Tips! Speed up your interface: Disable the Menu display control. Settings> Extra>Menu Display Control to Off.

Things to do when you receive it

Oh yeah it comes as a MTP device, you may want to change it right away to UMS for more capability and flexibility. Check the iriver support site and download the firmware upgrader to switch to UMS and also upgrade your firmware.
You may also want to download the management sofware iRiver has. IriverPlus 3. not version 2. It is now availalbe from the iRiver english site but from the korean one.

Good things compared to version 2:
Simplified and easy-to-use interface (especially with regard to file transferring).
iriver plus 3 implements video conversion as a frontend for mencoder.exe (cygwin compile).
iriver plus 3 converts the video files automatically when transferring them.
iriver plus 3 now supports audio conversion to Ogg Vorbis.

And the nice feature it the Flash Lite 1.1 support. You can find tons of games, applications for your little friend device.