REC 8gb Dictaphone USB Pen Drive Memory Stick Digital Audio Voice Recorder Black 580 Hours

I've been using this for awhile now and it seems to work just fine. Nothing fancy, just set it to record and it does it - wow! When I'm done I just move the file over to my desktop and delete it from the device. I'm not a techie so I don't know what else it can do, but the file format plays fine in Windows Media player and the files aren't huge or anything. The sound is fine. All in all, it's just what I wanted and I'm satisfied with it.**EDIT Dec 3, 2013 - this thing has been dead for about two months. It won't charge anymore :(

However, you never know if its recording or not. I have been having an issue in replaying the recording without fist saving it on the computer. However, the file is easily transferred to the computer. The recorded sound is not very high quality but workable. I didnt really expect anything better due to the size and price.

Horrible product. Product arrived all scratched and clearly not new. Item does not work. Instructions are not at all clear. DON'T BUY.

I should have paid more attention to the photo, as it is about the size of a small "butane lighter"; then I had to put on my reading glasses to read the controls.- When I transferred a recording to my computer, the recording was erased from device "automatically" (a big whoops).- Good amount of memory- Good pickup for voice- Easy to unplug cover, to expose the USB outlet that plugs into computer- Sorry, cannot recommend this recorderNailbreak

It's hard to get a good idea of the *actual size* of many of the digital voice recorders on amazon; going through the measurements is tedious and only two or three items in the entire category have pictures with human hands - not an ideal scale marker, but it gives *some* hint. This one you could at least tell from the USB connector, it really is small enough to toss in a pocket - but there's no hole to attach it to something else, like a keyring. An old style "pack of gum" would be a good reference size, but I don't know how common that is today...Note that it doesn't have a builtin speaker - it has a headphone jack, and comes with cheap standard earbuds - which are mostly useful for shoving into the plug hole and widening it enough that your *good* earphones will actually fit. (minus half a point for poor mechanical fit, there, but only half because they did work once they'd been shoved in and out a few times.)I did some test recordings, and it picked up nearby voice perfectly, and other casual voices in the room clearly though quietly.The .wav files played just fine with mplayer on a linux box; it's perfectly normal in that respect. It also had some extra files: "Settime.rar" and "???? 02.mp3" (some asian pop song that SoundHound couldn't identify.) Harmless in this instance, but sloppy; I'd assume the song was there to QA-test the "play music" feature, but since the earphone plug had clearly never been used, I'm not convinced.All I can say about the manual is "try google translate next time, it couldn't really be *worse*". I mostly worked out how to use it by accident; the 6 buttons and two switches are clearly labelled, and it has several LEDs in the case that light up in different colors to hint at what it's doing - colors which are not mentioned in the manual. The manual *does* suggest that only 99 "files" can be recorded, I haven't tested this, I'm still working on "DOWE: In the state of play or pause, short-press this key can move later"... My main complaint about the buttons is that when plugged into a typical horizontal USB port, the only reasonable place to grab it is the edges that are already entirely covered with buttons. (What I'd *like* to see is one button on the front, long-press to turn on (green), press once to record (goes red) and again to stop (goes green again.) But that's because I primarily want to play back on a computer, not through earbuds...)Also, out of paranoia, I copied a handful of iso images to the stick, unplugged it, plugged it back in, and verified them; that worked, write speeds in the 5-7MB/sec range. So it's a real enough memory stick.

The recorder is very lightweight and slim. It has good range, 30ft at least, and does not have a "static" sound when whatever you're recording isn't making noise. The swan on the front is a beautiful extra detail, but is very minimalist and not gaudy. The buttons are very self-explanatory, and the device is easier to use than other recorders I've had. It does not require batteries or charging. The software installs easily, literally just plug it in like any other USB drive. I would purchase this again if I needed another one, or recommend it to a friend who needed one.

This is the best in its class of Voice recorders because very small in size but big in performance. So far I recorder talk shows and music from: radio, TV and Live conversations and it sounds good, the microphone is very strong and clean,and the battery charge lasts about 2 hours playing my MP3 music with very good clear stereo sound.I love it. Thanks

It's ridiculously tiny, about the size of a flash drive but the audio quality on record is pretty decent. What really sucks is what sucks about a lot of Chinese stuff, the owner's manual. They're pretty funny when it's someone else trying to make heads or tails out of the instructions but it's a lot less fun when it's me.Fortunately this gadget is simple enough that I can get to its basic functions without a worthwhile set of instructions but it sure is strange that the Chinese haven't figured out that awful instructions are a problem for customers. Problem enough that I'm hesitant to buy stuff from mainland China.