Sony ICDP620 Digital Voice Recorder PC Compatible via USB

This recorder is very light, small enough to fit in your pocket or purse and easy to use. The sound quality is good and the software that comes with it is simple with a good help section if you want to do something more advanced.

The product works as advertised. Only complaint is the position of the control that makes it easy accidental operation, especially if kept in the pocket.

Don't waste your money on this. I thought because it was sony it had to be good, but I was wrong. The microphone sucks and the speaker is distorted.

I purchased one digital voice recorder (about $100)at spy-tro???.com. In that case, it was not working. The LCD display was frozen (not working). Even recording quailty was really terrible. However, this SONY voice recorder (less than $60) is very good within a few feet under no-noise conditions. I can say this gives you better voice quality than the price.
This has very simple functions to handle it. Some recorders are very complicated with many many functions and higher price, but I don't want to have that thing because some people like simple things with cheaper price. Not excellent, but very good.

I bought this voice recorder, but nowhere did it specify that the software does not work with Windows Vista 64 bit. This is a problem across the board with voice recorders, a software problem which happens with $300 recorders just like $50 ones, and with other brands as well. This of course disables a very important feature of the recorder... Luckily, I have two computers, one of which has a 32 bit Vista version. So I am using the older computer for right now to download the files.

Another big issue is the battery life - it is very limited, so hopefully you can afford a lot of batteries. I think the battery runs out after about 7-10 hours of recording.

On the bright side, the recorder and the software work very well, and you will get good recordings that are easy to listen to. The software really makes it the whole process much, much easier.

If you have 32 bit Vista, I would recommend getting this device. If not, maybe wait until the software is compatible with 64 bit version.