Q3E MP3 Player with Bluetooth (No Internet)

Owned the first iteration of Timmkoo MP3 players and was very impressed. Very simple user interface, excellent quality, easy to see controls. Eventually, I manage to drop it and kill it, so I ordered the Q3. Similar interface to the original model, but other than the Home screen, text is smaller and white on black background, thus a little harder to see. It does have a graphic equalizer, which is pretty good. I like to just copy music from the PC to a folder on an MP3 player and be able to locate the folder easily and play the content. The Q3 is a bit more involved than the original Timmkoo. Copying music is fairly simple: connect to a PC vis USB cable included. Open the device on the PC and navigate to the Music folder and copy music from the PC to that folder. Note that when disconnecting this model from the PC does NOT require 'Ejecting' it, which is an improvement over the original player. Playback is a little more involved. Select the Music folder on the upper left corner of the home screen. That momentarily displays a black 'splash' screen with the word 'Hiky' in bright yellow text. The next screen has icons on a black screen with small gray or white text. Locate the white musical note center top and click 'Internal Storage' just below it, in gray font. Locate the Music folder and click it. All music folders copied to the player will be displayed. Select one and click the first song listed to begin playing the content. A nice feature is from this open music folder, you can simply swipe 'left to right' to return to display the folders in the Music folder to select another to play. All in all, excellent build quality - has a solid, hefty feel. Very good battery playback time between charges. Very impressed with this product. Paired with Soundcore A2NC ear buds makes for a simply awesome MP3 experience!

I like it. When the battery died on my Ipod (yes I still use it) I needed something to use while I got it fixed. This was inexpensive and was next day delivery. It took a while to figure out how to upload my TV music and Movies but it loaded fast once I did. Holds a charge really well so I get about 16 hours between charges (more if I just do music). Everything that came with it works well to. The silicon carrier holds it tight. The headphones are great for tone and seem to be tough then they look. The face cover works but is now starting to bubble and peal but after 4 or 500 hundred hours in both heat and cold I am ok with that. For what I paid it is great and I like it a lot.

There is absolutely nothing about this product that is even remotely good or useful even if you already had the lowest expectations. Just to put it into perspective, an iPod Touch 1st Generation that has been dropped on the floor 50+ times, been run over by a truck carrying 5000 pounds of wood, and been hit with a hammer functions better than this piece of junk. The speaker audio sounds is about as good as a 1st generation walkie talkie with interference. If I had to choose between going deaf or having to listen to things through this speaker, I would choose to go deaf. The battery life of the product is straight up a lie. The Amazon description says that you can "enjoy 30 hours uninterrupted music" which, not only is completely false, but is also grammatically incorrect which should have been a red flag to me before buying the product in the first place. The battery life doesn't even last 15 hours while it is in its "power off" state. The storage although not technically false advertising, is realistically intangible. While you can store up to 8 GB's worth of files, putting more than a few GB's worth of files into it causes the processor to have a total meltdown and the entire product stops functioning. I will get more into depth about this later. Now let's have a look at the functionality of the item. The FM radio function, which is already questionable as to why it would be used, simply doesn't connect to any of the very few stations it supposedly can connect to. The recording function crashed whenever I tried to load it. The E-book function I could not test because file transferring is absolutely abysmal on this item. The stopwatch function has so much input delay that it is astonishing. The calculator is a Four Function calculator which means it can only do basic arithmetic(the math you learn roughly between the ages of 5-7) and even then it doesn't seem to do the math correctly. I didn't even bother with the calendar or photos function because I got fed up trying to get the machine to turn on. The eDictionary function is unfinished and has no definitions for words or ways to obtain the definition of words meaning it is useless. The files function is so bad that I'm giving it its own paragraph. Not only does it serve no purpose in this kind of device, but it also fails drastically at any purpose it could potentially have. It has a similar interface as your average computer file tool which is fine. However, there is no function to look for a specific file so you have to dig through everything one by one to try and find what you are looking for. After you finally find your file, what is it that you want to do with it exactly? Want to move it to another folder? Nah that function doesn't work. What about deleting files? Don't make me laugh that doesn't work either. Well can I at least view the file? Heck no, do you think this is a useful product? Well if I can't do any of those, what can I do with it? NOTHING. The files function is entirely worthless just like everything else. Finally we are on the final function, the settings function. This is the function that actually works however there is also a lack of things you can do with it in the first place. The functions you have access to are changing the Date and Time, adjusting the screen brightness, turning the automatic sleep/power-off function on or off, formatting the storage, and factory reset. The functions work as intended(I think) but the machine also likes to revert your changes on its own after some time so whatever you changed disappears. Now that all that bad stuff is over with, let's get onto WORSE things. On top of all the random useless functions that this thing has to offer, the machine simply can not process all of the junk it has installed. The processor has to work absurdly hard just to breathe. The processor is an absolute joke of a piece of hardware that makes the hardware of machines from 50 years ago look good. Without the addition of your own files, the product runs at the speed of an old laptop from 2010. Its not annoyingly slow but its slower than I prefer(roughly half a second to a full second of delay). Once you add your own files, that's where everything completely falls apart. I only added in about 3 GB's worth of data, which isn't even half of the capacity the product is given and the whole thing slowed down dramatically. It went from a 0.5-1.0 second delay to a 12 second delay. Even the oldest of computer processors run faster than this even when they are at 100% capacity. Trust me, it still gets worse. So I also bought a 128 GB micro SD card (they call it a TF card in the description which is just the old name of micro SD) to add additional storage because I have 50+ GB's worth of music that I wanted to store. Now I will give a quick rundown of how micro SD cards are typically used because this is connected to the problems that arise with this product. Typically when you put a micro SD card into a device, you are able to put files into the micro SD card using the product. This product however, requires you to put files into the micro SD card BEFORE you put it into the device and there is also a lack of instruction for this to begin with. So I spent a good 4 hours trying to figure out what I was doing wrong until another customer told me what he did. Remember in the last paragraph how I mentioned that the product ran absurdly slow with 3 GB's stored? Well I had 11 GB's when I tested my micro SD card and not only did the product stop working entirely(I wasn't surprised at all when this happened), it also corrupted my micro SD card and I had to repair it. This product is so awful that I wouldn't recommend it to any person. I would rate this 0 stars if I could because it isn't deserving of even a single star. If I was a Youtuber who was struggling financially and they offered me a single video sponsorship for 30 seconds, I wouldn't even take it unless it was 6 figures or higher. That's how awful this product is.

Personally, the player is worth around $40. I say this because I bought the player with some expectations. These are strong Bluetooth and higher interface adaptability. I bought the Aiworth Bluetooth mp3 player before and it was a good product, but it had a button interface, not a touchscreen. This was a problem for me as I have hundreds of mp3 files and scrolling through them one by one is very hard and eventually I lost that player. So I bought this one with the scrolling in mind. The overall for this product is that its Bluetooth is relatively easy to use, and it has a good amount of internal storage, (I personally have around 4 gigs of music, so it was not quite enough) So I installed a micro SD card. The various apps are kind of useless for an mp3 player. Like the recorder and calculator apps really don't need to be there. but the video and gallery apps are a plus because they split up the files. The video quality is incredible, I was surprised, to say the least, shocked would be better, at the amazing quality. The clock and alarm function are okay, not really necessary, that is what a phone is for. But the settings and Bluetooth apps make for a great platform to work with the various functions. The battery life is good, I have not reached a limit yet, I just charge it like my phone whenever I can. There is one glitch that I have found, that is when I let it go to sleep, and wake it up to pause the streaming music, sometimes it will freeze the music app and will not respond, the other apps will work fine, but the music app just stops working. So I just restart it and then it works fine. So other than that, this player is well worth the money.

The date and time setup was confusing at best. Who lists USA time zones as "Daylight Savings" only? The setup for WiFi wasn't bad and the player downloaded the MP3 files fairly quickly. Connecting my Bluetooth earbuds wasn't difficult but the sound quality was mediocre at best. However, I was going with the default settings so maybe using the EQ might help. I bought this to mostly play audio books and maybe the occasional music selection, but as far as I'm concerned, MP3s don't have very good sound quality. The battery runs rather hot, even when the player is shut down. I'm buying the player's case so I won't have it directly in contact with me. If the case starts to melt, I'll know it's running *too* hot! The touch screen is oversensitive but it's not as bad as having to use physical controls to move the cursor around. It does behave a lot like a very narrowly-focused tablet. The player allowed me to disable some of the apps I'll never use, since I don't plan on watching movies or reading ebooks on it. Overall, I'd say this is more or less worth the price tag. It's advanced enough that it doesn't feel like an antique, but it's small enough to be easily portable. Some of its features are a bit annoying but it'll get the job I need done, within the price I'm willing to pay. I can find several much more advanced tablets that cost as much as most of the MP3 players I saw listed here, but they're larger and less easily portable because of that fact. This particular player was more affordable and better sized for my intended use, despite its flaws.

This MP3 player is one of it's kind. As someone who prefers to have a MP3 player without any internet connection or any apps, this was just what I was looking for! Although it is a basic MP3 and MP4 player, the CPU speed is awesome and I don't have to wait even 2 seconds from one click to the other. As a side note, I'm reviewing this product 2 years after I bought it and it unfortunately recently broke - the screen detached from the motherboard - but at the price I paid I'm not surprised and will definitely buy another one, as it served me very well!

I have tested 3 of the six cheap music players, and this one so far, and I don't see it getting beaten, punches WAY above its weight. $50, decently large 4.5in (480x800) IPS screen with an interface and navigation scheme that's not dumb. The other two which are also touch based, have obtuse swiping gestures, but since this has a home and a back button, it feels familiar to those who have used Android (this doesn't run Android). Pros (THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM) -Great screen, decent enough resolution and is truly IPS, now it's not 178 all angles great, but it's far better than the cheap TN panels I've dealt with with the other two 10 dollar cheaper media players. -Features: Good features, randomly has a built in dictionary, I don't know why, but it's there and it's kind of neat. The on-board microphone is actually pretty decent, sensitive, and you need to do some post processing to mitigate background noise but better than just throwing a cheap one in there. -User Experience: Everything seems to work, you touch it, and it works, has press and hold to enter selection mode and then can easily add multiple things into a collection when in music mode to make a playlist. The keyboard that's on screen for the dictionary is nice and responsive, also not very small, very usable on this tiny device. -Quality: for $50 you're getting a lot of it here, decent screen, above average built in speaker that gets decently loud enough, a 4 pole headphone/mic jack. A microSD card slot that can ACTUALLY accept cards larger than 128, tried a 256GB and it hadn't any issue. The build is great, glass and metal where you need and want them Comes with a decent silicon case and two screen protectors. Thing charges up fast thanks to USB C, during a 15 minute video transfer, it topped off the battery as well which was about 50% full. Decent brightness and darkness with no real light bleed or issue. Came with a very weird 4 ended connector, don't know what that's for. It's a micro b and usb C connector on both ends, with both connectors coming out to form a Y. Very interesting and unique cable. Also, the headphones, something this cheap comes with decent headphones. The cable is braided, and the quality are nice, not Samsung Galaxy AKG bundled headphones nice, but not cheap dime store ones either, the earpiece is metal as well. AGAIN, a lot of weird quality for such a budget device. Cons: Music Play Back: Music sounds fine, and in and of itself, plays well, too. Great scanning and searching feature, no lag skipping through a song to get to a hook. THOUGH, and this is an annoying THOUGH, seems to have a big bug. When playing songs from a folder it will sometimes play a random song besides the one you pressed. I don't know why that is. One theory and not enough testing has happened to verify it fully, is that if you play a song from one folder, and then go into another folder and decide to play a song from that folder. It doesn't interupt the song and change to the new one, it plays a random one which I think is in the previous folder that the song you were listening to but in the position you pressed. So song two from folder A would play even if you press song two from folder B. Very odd. Keep in mind: This isn't an android device or a proper ipod touch like device, keep expectations realistic. I loaded an 8GB video from my SD card and it took a while to lode, and initial playback was weird. Audio syncing issues that seemed to correct itself when enough of the video got buffered. It played well after that. While the screen is IPS, it's also prone to washing out, which was more apparent in the video test I ran. This also doesn't come with ANYTHING but the dictionary installed as far as content goes. No photos to show off the good display. No sample music to test that out. No video sample either. BUT, OTG works flawlessly. SO FAR, this is a huge recommend.

Bought this in 2020 and it didn't last a year. Good graphics and ok sound but poor battery life. 1 day it decided not to come on, even after being charged and that was it.