I so wanted to be able to ditch the Clip Sport, because I dislike practically everything about it, but ... I got the as-advertised 25 hours of listening on a single charge. And this was over several days, so it wasn't losing power when I wasn't using it. I'll have to put up with all the other annoyances for that one big advantage.
The latest annoyance is the most annoying of all. Sometimes I lose focus and after I've started a chapter file, I want to go back to the end of a previous chapter file to reorient myself. Well, with the Zip, no problem; I go back to the earlier chapter, fast forward to a few minutes before the end, and relisten, and the Zip continues seamlessly to the next chapter. Not so the Sport--when I go back that way, it plays to the end of the earlier chapter, then resumes at the point of the next file where I previously stopped. Very confusing when you don't realize that's what's happening, and extra steps to go back again.
Smaller newly noted annoyances: When I get to the end of the book for some reason it starts the book again from the beginning. Weird.
I also noticed that whereas the Zip would count on the left how many minutes into the file I'd read, and on the right how many minutes were left, the Sport on the right just shows the total number of minutes in the file--no countdown. Who cares how many minutes I've read; I want to know how many minutes are left. Now I have to do a mental subtraction.
It also adds in extra files with the extension .pos. I am guessing that these must be "bookmarks" that are indicating the last point read in the file. It also seems to have added them to the card I had in the Sport briefly and then returned to the Zip, because now the Zip is listing each file twice.
- Battery life: A+++++
- Everything else: F