MP3 Player with Bluetooth | Portable Music Player with Headphones | Colour Screen, Easy Controls, Lock Button, Sports Clip | Oakcastle 16GB Bluetooth

I've had a number of such products over the years so consider myself sufficiently experienced as a consumer to offer an opinion. I do still have a 'South Korean' designed & built product which has served me very well for over a decade. It is both beautiful & very functional BUT the storage is restrictive and there's no SD Card capability. So I've looked elsewhere and it appears that only these Chinese designed & built units could possibly suit my requirements. I did purchase a different brand a month or so ago at 3 times what I've paid for this MP200 (both at sale prices by-the-way) but not least the excessive weight of that one was a great problem - fine with it's metal casing if I was at the frontline in a war scenario and hoped it might stop a bullet but otherwise...One of the other problems with that product & this one too is that the designers have opted for 'gimmickry' of sorts. That previous one for it's large & heavy size and this one for it's ultra small & ultra light size because neither understands the ideal of the 'Goldilocks' sizing. Such is to compensate for a lack of quality in certain areas, specifically fit & finish. Both Chinese products are let down by the visible materials they use - this MP200 has surely one of the very cheapest plastics available and is waaaaay behind the standards of that South Korean product (which was first produced around 2009!). And the etching on the casing to explain the button functions is so feint as to be almost pointless. Not so the quality used to emblazon 'Oakcastle' beneath the screen, though. I'm also sceptical in the extreme about the apparent plethora of companies producing all of these supposed 'different' products because of several common design features shared certainly by this company & the other. One is that the SD Card is required to be inserted UPSIDE DOWN which is entirely counter-intuitive and, not least, risks significant damage when it isn't explained because there's an instinct to try ramming it home. But mostly it's that there are shared programming anomalies such as the jumbling of consecutive files no matter how disciplined the titles have been written. My theory is that just one software package has been created and then shared around a number of entirely different manufacturers to wrap their own hardware around it.I would also question the business & environmental sense of including, certainly, the earphones - which are very poor. Few will want them, so into bin they will go!ON THE OTHER HAND - and it's early days, of course - the operation of the device is pretty simple and the sound quality is rather good. Criticism (which I've read here from more than one) that switching off the device effectively sends play 'back to the beginning' is NOT correct - the unit always resumes at that last point.Overall, then, it's 'swings & roundabouts'. Certainly for the price - and assuming it lasts a few years - it's well worth the price. On the other hand it isn't a product you'll necessarily cherish & care for as something to be particularly proud to own.

Excellent MP3 player for anyone without a smartphone or who doesn't want to carry a brick with them on a run. Wi-fi works perfectly, good sound quality, easy to load songs. It is so small it fits into a Gel pocket on your shorts and the clip is strong enough to hold it in place anywhere, you just don't notice you are carrying it. It is very small and the buttons can be a bit fiddly especially if you have large digit's but once activated it is not a worry. I think it is best used with headphones that allow you to change the volume, pause music and fwd songs. Comes with a silicon cover which is a very good idea but does make the screen a bit difficult to read. Overall a very good product and I would get one again.

Nice to be able to set it up and play it straight out of the box. Battery was already 2/3rds charged. I played the built in sample mp3 and the sound quality amazed me. I was using top grade headphones so I expect they are much better than using the ear buds provided. What's not to like? Well folders full of sets of mp3 eg albums don't appear as folders - all the mp3 wav and flac files get transferred in one bunch and so order is alphabetical. Unless you create playlists it won't play through an album and then switch itself off. Luckily it will switch off when playing all the files in any of the 3 playlists selected. 3 playlists is rather penny pinching - so you can't create sets of albums. Second gripe is the useless FM Radio which has very weak reception even when using a long headphone flex for the antenna. Nothing in the user manual downloaded as pdf online (there were no instructions in the box with this player) shows how to select an FM Station assigned to a Preset. I worked it out by chance and you page through presets by pressing the select/play/pause button once each time to cycle through the presets as set up. It would have been nice to know that in the manual - no chance. Volume is louder when not using the Equalizer. That title is a misnomer, it has no equalizer only presets that make no difference apart from turning down the maximum volume to unacceptably low levels. Each of the preset tone controls made no difference to the tonal shape at all. So I run it without using the equalizer settings. So that's it really - not bad for the money and a useful standby for when my other far better quality mp3 player packs up (it's 7 years old!)

lasted about a year is that good going I don't know I was just listening and went back to listen to the song again and the screen went weird and now it is either white or noisy static screen without any sound

My trusty old iPod Nano of 15 years recently stopped working the same week Apple announced they wouldn’t be making them anymore. ( Funny that.) Listening to podcasts is a daily ritual for me, so I needed a cheap replacement. I took a chance with the Oakcastle because of it’s price and it getting more positive Amazon reviews than rival models on here. I was a bit taken aback by how small the thing is, but downloaded some podcasts onto it and was quite happy with how they sounded ( though using my own headphones rather than the ones supplied.) I then added some favourite songs and was genuinely amazed at how decent the sound quality was for something so cheap. Once I learnt how to share my iTunes files on it I was away. My main gripe is that unlike an iPod it doesn’t return to any file you were listening to at the point you left it - just the most recent. So if you were listening to a 3 hour podcast but stop half way through for to listen to something else, it won’t return you back to where you where on the earlier podcast. You have to start all over again and fast forward to wherever you left off which sucks ( this would be even more irritating if you were listening to a long audio book.) The navigation home menu can be messy and confusing too and makes it tricky trying to locate a particular file. At the end of the day, this is a 25 quid MP3 player with good sound quality but limited features . You get what you pay for I guess.