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Title: Short lifespan. Agree with other 1-Star reviews.
Review: Purchased April 2011. Worthless pricey device in less than 4 months.Worked perfectly for 5 weeks. Parked in a drawer for a few months. Would not boot up on first try in August. Was able to rescue data to my my pc via usb, even without the recorder showing any life. (I guess that's a plus)Thought maybe it was just batteries, which I replaced. It came to life with new batteries, so I thought it was back to its usual self. Next day, was recording and realized a few minutes into the piece, the Olympus Voice Recorder was frozen.Thought maybe it was draining new batteries. Added second set of new batteries; still frozen/crashed.Another person who left a post talked about the way it was like the old MS screen of death. As I write this, my recorder is connected via USB and I am looking only at 'the Olympus screen of death'.Luckily, it shows the Olympus brand name, so I know not to repeat the choice.
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