Very  nice design, easy to use if you are basic computer user. Better than other waterproof mp3 player. Honestly This item is perfect to me while I am swimming. May be  each person  has different opinion, but it is based on their  lack of background. Honestly it is easy to use...... Price is fair..... What do you expect from water? Nice product.

I use it for 30 minutes swim over 1.2 km and found that sound quality even when securely inserted, does not stay it.  And after a while, the sound quality drops significantly after re-insertion. It needs to be dried out which a swimmer would not like to experience such disruption

The MP3 Player is great, but the earphones don''t really stay in and don''t have the capacity to mold into my ear or bend around my ear properly to make a good, tight seal.  Thus I can''t hear when I swim.  I will be buying some new headphones to try and see if something else will work.

I was afraid to purchase this product after reading numerous complaints. I bought it anyway because it was the only one at a price I could afford. Listen: if you basic computer skills, this MP3 player is great. The icon pops up on your desktop, you load your songs. Done. The buttons on the product itself is simple. You are swimming and the unit sits on your goggles. You are supposed to be swimming, not playing DJ and it does the job. The only drawback is that it doesn''t support high-quality MP3, so you have to convert your songs... but it takes a minute with an app.

This is my second Aquabeat. The first one inexplicably died, but SwimOutlet gave me credit for the purchase. I bought the latest model with 4 gigs, and it's performing just fine.
The trick to keeping the headphones working properly is to remove the hook that clamps over the ear. Insert the headphones into the ear before you enter the water, thus avoiding water in the ear canal.
The Aquabeat has improved my workouts tremendously.

Having 4 gigs of memory is great and the device has a radio, which I've not tried yet while swimming. The display screen is hard to see in the sun at an outdoor pool, but I really don't use it much. I hit play, and off I go.

I swim probably 3 hours per week. I need that music to make the time go faster
some good things-it plays music, downloading is easy,
-some not so good things
-It has good sound when both ear phones are working but often only 1 of them is working at a time-the earphones themselves are impossible to get around my ear so I stick the plugs in and have my cap hold the rest of it in place
-I changed the plugs to try to make them more secure in my ear-the others let water in-if water gets in the sound diminishes
-I can't read the digital display in the sunlight but I know the play, stop, and forward buttons so thats all I press
-I dont know how many of the features work-there is no pattern of long or short holds to choose different things like the radio or the favorites so I dont use them.-even after I've played with the buttons for a while, I still couldn't figure it out.
I contacted speedo and they have directed me to a different website than what the quick directions indicated-but I haven't looked at that yet