What if we could offer you some stimulant for your working out time? Not anymore extra work, but simply relax and enjoy your great tunes. Now you can listen to music while you do everything you want from jogging, cooking even to swimming. This time RCA adds another player to its dry-land category, but the RCA Jet is a player based on flash, with a very resistant splash-proof design and it adds some useful fitness extras.
This RCA Jet benefits of 3 colors: yellow, black and orange, last one being available only in the 2GB option. Don’t know why someone would prefer the 1GB player, when the 2GB is just 5$ away! (of course unless you prefer the yellow color). You can find people who are not suited by these colors, but this player’s sweat-proof casing is exactly what a sporty player need. This unique player aids you by its nifty little loops built into either side, where you can snap on the included armband or wristband.
Its front has a small 1-inch monochrome OLED screen, which displays a white text on black background, so if you have problems with your eyes, you can switch it and reverse the colors so you can steer clear. Under the screen you find a five-way control pad for the track shuttle and volume keys surrounding the central Play/Pause button. More or less the control pad is a little stiff and the button are being a little to hard to press, even the respond time is about 1 or 2 seconds. This player isn’t the easiest thing to use while strapped to an arm.

The standard mini USB port and (a bit odd) the headphone jack at the bottom of the player are covered by some splash-proof flaps, in which presumably you would be wearing, even listening to the device while sweat damage was most at issue.
The menu structure is also a little weird because it is split in two main menus, which you can activate by pressing or double pressing the menu button on the top edge of the player. The first menu includes the main options for the tunes, like Now Playing, Music, Audiobooks, Radio Records and the new My Selections option for listening to your own personal created playlists. The second one offers us options for improving our listening type, for helping us finding a very own track and even options for creating or changing your playlists: Shuffle, Repeat, EQ, adding/clearing My Selections and a Go To choice, that’s useful when changing to FM radio, stopwatch or even BMI calculator. It would’ve been much easier if the options were all together in one central main menu and several submenus with items grouped into related areas. Although isn’t very hard to handle the navigation in this way and the tracks are also arranged in the standard Creative interface, which makes your searches easier.
On the “just play” side Jet S2001 offers the standard PlaysForShure compatibility for MP3s and both protected and unprotected WMAs. Unfortunately you cannot transfer playlists unto it, you just have to create them with the adding/clearing My Selections option. You also cannot play videos or see photos with it, but for its primary objective (fitness oriented player) the stopwatch and FM radio comes more in handy. And you have to try out the new sporty clip-on earphones.
The earphones sound quality is actually pretty good, but as with all included earphones the rock tracks have to suffer. We suggest to buy another set of earphones though, ones with a bass add, which will improve you sound quality, and with which will do away with the muffled quality on the rock tracks. The palyers own earphones can get plenty loud.
As a conclusion, RCA is very capable of offering a customer a very good audio delight when combined with a good set of headphones. It offers music which sounds rich, full, and clear. The battery has an average life, for about 15 hours, but hopefully soon the CNET Labs will beat that time in its tests. Feel free to check soon for updates. :)