iriver H10 series

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This article is about the audio player. For the road in Milton Keynes, see H10 Bletcham Way.

6 GB Lounge Gray H10

The iriver H10 is a series of portable digital audio players made by iriver, coming in multiple capacities and sizes. The series uses the PortalPlayer 5020 CPU. Every version of the series has a color screen. [1]

Unlike most other iriver products, the H10 series does not play Ogg Vorbis.

1 Micro-Hard Drive versions
2 20GB Hard Drive Version
3 Trivia
4 Alternative firmware
5 See also
6 More Information

[edit] Micro-Hard Drive versions

5GB or 6GB capacities
2.2 x 0.6 x 3.8 inches (96 grams)
1.5 inch TFT screen (128 x 128, 260 000 colors)
Can view TXT and JPEG files
Supports MP3, WMA, WMA DRM, MPEG 1 Audio, MPEG 2 Audio, and MPEG 2.5 Audio formats
90 dB signal-to-noise ratio.
Lithium-ion rechargeable removable battery rated at 12 hours
Digital FM tuner (60 dB signal-to-noise ratio)
Ability to record FM tuner (one preset only)
FM and voice recorder (built in microphone)
Line-in/line-out (requires optional cradle)
USB 2.0 and 1.1 compatible
MTP version in North America, UMS version in Asia and Europe
Removable Battery

The Microdrives used in these models does not have the standard CompactFlash II interface.

[edit] 20GB Hard Drive Version

Similar to the 5/6GB version, with these key differences

20GB capacity
MTP mode only (UMS can be used via holding the O button and the power button at boot)
2.4 x 0.85 x 4 inches (164 grams)
1.8 inch TFT screen (160 x 128, 260 000 colors)
Battery Not Removable

[edit] Trivia

A silver H10 was used as a detonation device for a bomb in the Season 6 premiere of 24.

Alternative firmware

For more details on this topic, see Rockbox.

The Rockbox logo

Rockbox is an free and open source firmware, released under the GPL license. Among others, it supports iriver H10, H100 and H300 series. Features included are:

support of over 15 audio codecs, including Ogg and FLAC
support of Replay Gain (volume normalization), gapless playback and Last.fm
MPEG video playback support
many games, including Sudoku, solitaire, Pac-Man and Doom
customizable graphical interface through themes
installable plugins: clock, calendar, dictionary, text and image viewer, and screensavers
multilingual (more than 30 languages supported)
narration of interface, useful for the visually impaired

The above features are subject to the platform limitations. Rockbox may lack some features of the official firmware (for example support for DRM-covered music) and may considerably change the player interface. Depending on the manufacturer and reseller, usage of Rockbox may actually void player warranty.