Exonic 250 WMA/MP3/CD Detachable Receiver with USB, SD/MMC and Remote

The crux:When you search for a track the unit is clearly using the same processor to continue playing the current track and do the search. It's not powerful enough - the playback is broken as if it were buffering Internet radio.The search function does not look for exact matches - it returns anything vaguely similar. So, if you have 500 tracks on your card a five character search will come back with dozens of matches, not the two or three that exactly match. That would be bad enough if it weren't for the following issue...Instead of showing the track title and then scrolling to the left to show the part that didn't fit, the display starts blank and scrolls the entire track name on from the right-hand side from the first character. This makes browsing through search results painful.The display is very poor at scrolling - they've got the timing of moving the characters along wrong so they almost merge into one-another making anything scrolling very difficult to read.The backstory:If you just want to listen to radio and play CDs this unit is great. But if you don't want to play MP3 I'm sure you wouldn't be looking at this unit.I imported this unit from the USA to the UK because it looks GREAT and is clearly designed by the same people who designed my old RipSpeed unit which was very good (but a bit ugly).The main feature I wanted was real search (Exonic call it CHAR search) not the browse function you get in almost all other car MP3 players. This unit has real search... but it is fundamentlly unuseable as desribed above. It's such a shame - the unit looks great and the sound quality is great (except when searching) but the one function I really wanted is so poorly implemented that it is unuseable.So if you just want to play CD, radio and MP3s on random play or right through your memory card from start to finish then it's fine. But if you want to find anything on the card, forget it.So I have put my old RipSpeed unit (which cost £35 refurbished) in my new car and the Exonic 250 in my old car and hopefully it will sell soon - bye bye Exonic.

Bought this unit based on the features per dollar, and it worked good for awhile. Then the unit would light up but no sound sometimes, then more often then not until now it doesn't have sound at all. Checked ground and voltage to the unit and they were fine. Hopfully it's just this unit and the nice people at exonicmobile entertainment will give me a new one or fix it. We'll see.