Review of the Olympus WS-210S Digital Voice Recorder

The little WS-210S digital voice recorder from Olympus Australia is our top selling digital voice recorder. Used by all kinds of people from students recording lectures, market researchers recording focus groups, journalists recording sound bites and interviews through to amateur family historians recording their relatives voices and stories to keep for generations, the WS-210S is a true all round voice recorder.

Head over to our main blog site for a full review on this digital voice recorder: iDictate Blog

More Recorders Discontinued By Olympus Australia - WS-311M & WS-321M

In another surpise from Olympus Voice Australia, keeping the tradition of not telling anyone that its coming, they discontinued two more voice recorder models yesterday (10th July, 2009), they were the popular WS-311M digital notetaker and the next one up in the range the WS-321M. Both recorders were exactly the same in function and ability, the only difference came with their memory 512Mb for the WS-311M and 1Gb for the WS-321M and their colour. This now leaves just the WS-331M, with its massive 2Gb of memory from the original line up of three recorders.

When you think about it makes sense to drop these two. The WS-311M was very very close in spec and size to the WS-210S recorder, the WS-210S was quite a bit cheaper so maybe a pricing decision casued the WS-311Ms demise. Also the WS-321M, this was really an unneccary recorder, most people either went for the WS-311M or if they needed more memory would jump to the WS-331M so this recorder never really sold well.

In the WS series this now only leaves the WS-110 mono digital voice recorder (great for single speaker and one-on-one interviews), WS-210S stereo digital notetake (interviews, larger meetings, conferences and lectures) and the WS-331M (same as WS-321M but with added class in the piano black).

Australian Olympus Buyers Beware !!

While scanning the internet last night I came across a couple of Australian online retailers selling some of the new range of Olympus digital voice recorders very very cheaply, cheaper in fact than us official resellers can buy them from Olympus in Australia.

After some investigation it turns out that these very cheap recorders are not sourced from Olympus Australia and therefore are not covered under Australian warranty. Worse still, the vast majority are refurbished so are not even brand new.

So just a warning. If you are going to invest in an Olympus digital voice recorder make sure:

1. It comes from an official Olympus Australia reseller
2. It comes with the full one year Olympus warranty

We at Dictate Australia are just one of many official Australian resellers. All our Olympus recorders are brand new from Olympus Australia and come with a full Olympus Australia warranty.

Just a word of warning, we all like a bargain but just take caution.