I just got one of these through the post from Amazon. I had ordered it on about Thursday last week, kind of hoping it would get here by Saturday, but unfortunately no such luck. When it did arrive the Amazon box it came in was pretty battered as well - though the actual packaging was OK. That'll be ParcelForce then...

It's currently attached to the laptop and charging, and I can't quite inspire it to turn on yet so I'm going to wait and hope that it's meant to do that. What I can say is that the Windows software installation is about the most annoying thing I have ever seen. The wizard moves the mouse around to what it thinks is the option you want, then it will go full-screen and get in the way of anything more useful that you happen to be doing, and pop up occasional dialogue boxes to steal the focus. Then when you reboot it will launch a full-screen Flash gizmo to register the device, before something to do with Audible comes along and does something similar.

Final gripe so far - the headphones it comes with are pathetic. I'm not sure why they do that - surely better headphones give a better impression of the device. I didn't have any intention of using them though. I'll either continue to use the slightly battered Sony things I have or give my E2cs another shot. I seem to have the smallest ears in the world, and even the very smallest rubber parts for them don't properly fit me.

I'll write some more when I've got the thing up and running, including if I have to mess about to get it to work in Linux.