Weakness battery

I own the Ariaz now for about four weeks and use it only for the audiobooks from Audible. About the sound quality of music so I can not say much, but as for the audio books, I am very satisfied. The supplied cheap earphones I have however replaced with high-quality in-ear plugs, so that the disturbing external noise such as traffic noise, or noise in buses and trains do not interfere with the concentration on the speaker's voice.

All in all I am satisfied with the device. Look and feel are very noble, the device is easy to use. The software 'Songbird' I have not installed, since I only use the Audible Manager receiver to download audio books. Otherwise, the device can be overloaded with files via the Windows Media Player or simply as a media like a USB flash drive.

The weak point is even with my device with the battery. I never get the display with the flash, the signals that the charge is complete, even after thirty-six hours charging time. I unplug the unit from the mains, the battery level is displayed in full. The playing time keeps most fifteen hours and is thus far removed from the specified in the product description battery power of twenty-six hours. And even though the battery display 'Empty' indicates, I have just over six hours playing time until the device switches off by itself. Conclusion: one can rely in any way on the battery indicator. A night on the power cord can guarantee me that the battery is full. To avoid the memory effect, I charge the battery before it is not completely empty and the unit has shut himself.

Instead of the specified 8GB of storage were free only 6 GB for storing files on my machine. Only after I kicked out a bunch of redundant, factory struck up files such as photos and user manuals have transmitted as a PDF file in multiple languages ​​on the hard drive, I have approximately 7 GB.