Olympus VN-1800 Digital Voice Recorder | 
 enlarge | Brand: Olympus
Category: CE
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Color: Gray, silver
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 2.4 x 0.8 x 0.2
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 141635
Model: 141635
UPC: 050332296121
EAN: 0050332296121
ASIN: B000067NL8
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| Features:
| • | Three recording modes allow up to three hours of recording time | | • | Pauses recording during silence to save memory | | • | Four folders, each holding up to 100 recorded messages | | • | Jogdial layout | | • | Two AAA batteries last up to 33 hours |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Product Description
This flash memory recorder records up to three hours of input. With four separate folders, you can organize your messages into distinct sections. Each folder saves up to one hundred messages, and you can transfer these files from folder to folder, or delete them as necessary, using the file management system. The LCD screen displays a variety of information including: date, time, recording time, battery status, folder indicator, recording mode indicator, alarm indicator and battery indicator. The three recording modes allows you to adjust recording time. Choose between high quality, standard or long record. Twenty custom alarms keeps you up-to-date on important dates and times. The highly sensitive microphone will detect silence and stop recording saving valuable memory space. The recorder comes with earphone and mic jacks for added versatility. What's in the Box
Recorder, user's manual and a one year warranty.
Product Description
On the outside it's a beautifully designed, stunningly gold, compact and lightweight digital voice recorder that fits perfectly in your hand. On the inside, it's packed with amazing features like the ability to record 3 hours of audio, 4 folders to store and organize messages, and up to 20 customizable alarms that can be played automatically. Put them together and the VN-1800 becomes the perfect solution for all of your recording needs, and proves that something 'little' can indeed provide something 'big'.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Perfect for keeping a journal May 13, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I selected the VN-1800 after looking at many dictating devices on the Internet. I use mine for recording my thoughts and diary entries on the go. It's small enough to fit nicely into my pocket, and the Hold switch never accidentally slides open. It's large enough to rest comfortably and securely on four fingers of one hand, leaving the thumb free to operate the buttons.
HQ mode along with low mic sensitivity catches my voice clearly and holds 45 minutes of dictation, which is plenty for my purposes. I love the S folder, which has a slot for each day of the year. Because it knows the date and time, the recorder automatically points to today's slot for recording. When playing messages, all the messages for a day are played, making it perfect for transferring to a computer via the headphone jack for making mp3 files.
It would seem that manufacturers now think everybody is just itching for voice recorders to play mp3 music files. In my case, though, I already have a 20GB mp3 player, so I couldn't care less about mp3 playback capability. Why pay extra for something you don't want?
The ability to link digitally with my PC is not valuable to me either, because I have to listen to my dictation anyway so that I can categorize it, so the task of making mp3 files on my computer is no burdon.
The player is clean, rugged, and has the features that I want, without extra gimmicks such as mp3 music playback. This brings the price down, which is another nice feature. Sometimes less is more.
A quality device January 27, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I originally purchased this recorder to take minutes in meetings. In both HQ and SP modes, the quality of recording is very good for this purpose, assuming use of headphones when transcribing. In an outdoor setting, with people seated around a standard size folding table and holding the recorder so that it can be pointed toward the person speaking, the VCVA (voice activation) function was an excellent performer, even with a few people who mumble, and saved having to deal with blocks of silence. In LP mode, the quality of recordings is awful, but still salvageable (laborious task of playing file into computer as a wave file, then performing noise reduction on file) allows use of such files. If the time provided by SP is adequate for your purposes, this is an excellent and cost effective choice.
 OK for personal messages, but don't try to dictate February 16, 2004
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Although this digital voice recorder's (DVR) customer- and editorial reviews are accurate, they fail to identify one important flaw!With a DVR, (unlike audio microcassette recorders) you can NOT rewind over an erroneous word and rerecord it. If you are using the DVR to dictate, you will not be able to back up and restate anything said in error. This is a major drawback.
great product February 7, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The new VN1800 from olympus is a very good product! I see it as a next generation compared to my older VN90. The most impressive differences to me are the smaller size and the better sound. There is also a fourth directory and buttons are more intuitive with the jogdial. The size is now about 3 inches versus 4 inches, allowing the VN1800 to hold in a pocket without deforming it or hurting. The sound quality in HQ mode is very crisp allowing to better recognize all kinds of sounds, even mixes of noises, voices and music. It is no longer a struggle to understand voicenotes I took in my car with ambiant city noise.The consomation is low: i measured about 0.1mA standby, 40mA play (low volume) 30mA rec mode. So batteries must last a while
I also did a test of replacing the batteries within reasonable time (10sec) and thank god the messages were not lost. The VN1800 will always be with me, attached to my keys with an extendable cord.
Note: sometimes under harsch frictions and pressure the tiny 'hold' button accidentally shifts and the unit starts recording. For this I simply cut off the 3 grooves of the button
Very useful - almost essential once you've tried it September 28, 2003
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This has good, crisp sound at the HQ setting. The full range of the mic shows on a larger speaker if you dub it from the headphone jack. The mic is very sensitive (on high) and is able to pick up sounds near and far without over-amplifying the nearer ones.The sound quality is fair at the medium setting and almost unusable at the longest-play setting, so don't take the maximum rec time at face value with these units. I've yet to use all 45 minutes at HQ, so this is perfect for my mental note taking and to-do lists at home. People who record entire lectures or meetings might go with a pricier model and more memory unless they want to strain their hearing with the compressed modes. There are no worries about losing data if batteries die (flash memory) and battery life appears to live up to the 33 hour rating. It's still on "full" after 4 months if that can be trusted. The ergonomics seem clever and they did their best to keep the unit tiny. I think critics of the jog-pad just need more practice! One improvement might be a rougher gripping surface to prevent slippage. I dropped it once on a carpet from 3 feet but nothing happened. I also would like to see more than 100 messages allowed per folder (4 total folders) since I have no reason to use more than one at any given time.
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