7. General Use

The Dell Digital Jukebox - as a digital music player - is easy to navigate and use. On the front of the device, you have your scroll wheel for navigating menus, a home button that takes you to the main menu, a play/pause button, a forward/skip forward and back/skip back button that let you navigate the device and generally play the albums or song lists you want to listen to. On the left side, you have an on/off button, + and - volume buttons and a record button that you hold down to start voice recordings through the integrated microphone. On the top, it has a button lock switch, USB input and a connection for a dangling remote that, when connected offers the same volume control and pause/play/forward/back features that you have on the Jukebox itself.

The headphones are substandard, but that's definitely a biased opinion. Now that there are so many different types of headphones available, the smart thing for a vendor to do is go for the lowest common denominator (in-ear plugs that don't seem to fit anyone's ears without falling out) and let the user decide what they want to purchase for their listening pleasure. I'll take this time to mention that every audio device, whether it's a cell phone or an MP3 player, should use standard jacks. I say this because the fancy Sony Ericsson cell phone I recently purchased will only use a proprietary hands-free device that that company makes (so watch out for that stuff). The sound quality is good, but will depend largely on the quality of the music files you load into it. All in all, if you have a ton of songs to listen to, this unit will hold them all and they won't be difficult to find and play.

The remote control unit for the Dell Digital Jukebox, which includes volume buttons, a play/pause button and forward and back buttons.