Digital Home Thoughts: H20 Audio's SV i700 Waterproof Housing and Armband

Not-So-Soggy Bottom Boys
The design of the SV i700 is quite ingenious. It's almost as if the unit was designed right along side the iRiver iFP-700 (even though it was developed after). The most difficult task is remembering that the front panel buttons (Figure 1) are reversed to take full advantage of the rocker-style switch. The top buttons (Figure 2), if you can remember what they are normally, are laid out the same as the iFP-700 outside of the casing.


Figure 1: The front button panel with its reversed layout.


Figure 2: The top button panel on the SV i700.

Keeping all the bits together is a locking mechanism (Figure 3) that has a whelk's chance in a supernova of opening accidentally. This is a two-hand, three step operation. Don't get me wrong - I would rather have to really work at getting my device out of the casing than risk a flood that would send my tunes to Davey Jones' Locker.


Figure 3: The locking mechanism for the SV i700.