Finally.

After all of that waiting for my MP3 player, it finally arrived. Unfortunately, it arrived while I was in Santa Clara for work, so I didn't get to play with it until Wednesday. To recap, I got the Meizu M6. I originally ordered the 4GB unit in Black, but they are pretty much sold out everywhere right now (at least where you can get it for a reasonable price). So I opted for the White one after one of the managers from Walgreens.com contacted me with the information about the delay with the Black units. I am okay with the White unit, even though it looks kind of like an iPod :).

I paired up the player with a new set of JVC in-ear headphones. The combination couldn't be better. The sound is incredible from this player - and the sound manipulation capabilities are quite good. You don't get just 'treble' and 'bass'. You also get a full equalizer and a few built in DSP modes. Transferring music to the unit is very easy. After upgrading to the most recent firmware, it works seamlessly with WMP11 (Windows Media Player 11) for syncing. You can also just drag and drop any files into the 'music' folder as it shows up as a removable drive within the file explorer.

There is loose support for album art as well, with the firmware update of course. You need to copy the .jpg of the art to the folder where the music resides, and rename the file to match artistalbum.jpg (at least I think that is what it is) and the image will be displayed when the file is being played.

With all the niceties of unit, there are some drawbacks. Limited video support where you have to run it through a converter for support. There are some audio issues as well. At the end of playing an MP3, and there isn't a natural 'space', the mp3 will stutter a couple of times before continuing to the next song. Nothing super bad, but it can get annoying. I just hope they clear up some of the issues in their next firmware update.