Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: obselete ; buy the new one

Got this model about two years ago. It was the only choice at the time that could pronounce words. It worked OK, the vocabulary was limited ; probably OK for spanish intermediate level at the most. It was plagued with poor design though. really bad battery door design resulting in intermittent operation. Hard to use volume control. unreliable connecter in the back for inserting other books, poor contrast made it difficult to read, and my son at one point adjusted it to minimum while playing with it and the display totaly disappeared. Took lot of blind hit and trial to get to the settings menu to get it back. pls designers leave the minimum contrast adjustment at a level that can still be seen. About two years of use the top half of the display stopped working.It has been replaced by a better model that is thin and smaller. Get that instead.