Review on Sony ICD B7 Digital Voice Recorder by Duane Rogers

I bought one of these probably a year or two ago and at the time the 150 minute capacity was far superior to anything else in this price range. I bought it specifically to evaluate mystery shopping and it did a good job about 80% of the time. Sometimes there is too much background noise to understand what is being said. However, I usually keep the recorder in my jacket pocket or in my wife's purse and it still does a decent job! I particularly like the real-time clock (so I know the exact date and time the shot was taken), although it would be nice to have a seconds counter. (An elapsed time counter shows seconds, not hours.) Battery life is good, but a far cry from the advertised 10 hours of recording. Buy rechargeable AAAs, you will need them. Extremely small and light. The mic jack is a nice feature, but I never used it because I don't have the right mic!