Digital Voice Recorders
>>>>>Business Problem: You do some of your best thinking when you're away from the office and would like to be able to save your ideas until you can put them down on paper.
>>>>>Technology Solution: Digital Voice Recorders
Product: Sony ICD-BX700 1GB digital voice recorder
Pricing: $29.
Functionality: The ICD-BX700 digital voice recorder comes equipped with voice-operated recording. Additional features include digital pitch control, playback speed control, stereo microphone jack, backlit LCD display, and alarm function.
Business Benefits: The ICD-BX700 digital voice recorder provides up to 280 hours of recording capacity in four recorder modes and five message folders. Two AAA batteries provide enough power for 26 hours of recording time and 30 hours of playback time.
Contact: Sony at 1-877-865-SONY; www.sonystyle.com.
Product: Olympus WS 400S 1GB digital voice recorder
Pricing: $79.99.
Functionality: Features include voice-activated recording, stereo microphone, and an LCD display that supports three languages. This device records in popular Windows Media Audio (WMA) format. The “USB Direct” design allows users to plug the recorder into a computer, with no separate USB cable necessary, for easy downloading of audio files, documents, image files, and more.
Business Benefits: Users can capture up to 272 hours of audio (up to 200 files in each of five available folders). This device provides up to 21 hours of continuous operation from one AAA battery.
Product: Panasonic RR US570 1GB digital voice recorder
Pricing: $109.95.
Functionality: This device features a built-in zoom microphone, three recording position switches (Zoom, Wide, and Manual), MP3 recording/playback, digital voice-activated recording, five-step speed control, playback equalizer, repeat function, auto back space, USB mass storage and USB 2.0 high-speed connection, and a password-based security function.
Business Benefits: This device stores up to 287 hours and 30 minutes of audio (up to 99 files in each of four voice recording folders and 999 files in one music folder) and offers up to 45 hours of continuous operation with a single alkaline battery.
Contact: Panasonic at 1-800-405-0652; www2.panasonic.com.