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Average Ratings
Value for Money7.5/10
Reviewer Rating6.5/10
Overall Rating7.7/10 Based on 3 ratings
50% Recommended1 out of 2 Reviews
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2- Rio Cali Sport Reviews

  • Full review by
    Lee46
    on 13th May 2005


    User Rating : 3
    Respect : 0

    Good Points: Size, weight, rugged build quality, battery life.

    Bad Points: Small screen, hard to read, can't use playlists with expansion cards, music manager software very basic.

    General comments: I bought the Rio Cali because it was expandable and because a friend had a Rio player that looked good and worked well. When it arrived I loaded it up with music and everything seemed fine until I tried using the playlists. When you have 512k of MP3 files you want to be able to split them up into album-sized playlists. If you do this with the Rio Cali the player will ignore any files that are on the expansion card. Many calls and emails to the tech support lines later, I finally got a confirmation from Rio that none of their players support playlists on expansion cards. By this time it was five months after I bought the thing so I decided it was too late to try to get my money back. A pity, because it really is a good player, but I am going to buy something else next time that will do what I want.
    Lee46's review and ratings     | 182 words

  • Review by
    slit Rank: Sergeant
    on 16th Jun 2004


    User Rating : 10
    Respect : 0

    The Rio Cali Sport 128MB is a great portable mp3 player. I would highly recommend it. It has a great, easy to read LCD screen, that is protected by a rubberish ridge that goes around it, so if dropped, it doesn't scratch. I have dropped this player many times, including on my concrete garage floor, with no scraping done to the player or it's screen. It has rubber material protecting it, and is extremely stury. It also has expandable memory, because it's size, 128mb, is somewhat small. Another gr ...
    slit's full review     | 281 words



Rio Cali Sport Product Details

256 MB of memory for over 4 hours of MP3 or 8 hours of WMA musicSecure Digital card/MMC expansion slot provides up to 512 MB of additional memoryBuilt-in FM Tuner18-hours of continuous playback with o More...


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