MPIO's electric guitar-inspired design makes the FL500 a head turner. Its high price, poor construction quality, and confusing onscreen navigation hold it back.
The USB door on the MPIO FL500 is thinly tethered to the body by a fragile piece of rubber. The switch on the left side of this photo controls play/pause and skip/scan. We found it too easy to accidentally trigger it.
I can't look at this thing without thinking of the car race in Tron. Notice how the display squeezes a whole mess of information (too much) into the small space.
Here we see the profile of the MPIO FL500's metal clip. The hold switch was often useful, given the FL500's distinctively oversized controls. Hopefully, that reset switch won't see much action.