It’s time to start shopping for new Dictation machines and you’re wondering if the Olympus WS-853 8GB Dictation Machine is any good? Our Olympus WS-853 8GB Dictation Machine review has been written to help you decide.

Our first step is to give you a quick guide on how Olympus WS-853 8GB Dictation Machine stacks up against the competition. The scores below give you a real quick indication of how it compares to other products in the Dictation machines category. And whether Olympus WS-853 8GB Dictation Machine is the best product available from Olympus. We’ll also explore some of the alternative products available, whilst keeping in mind that you’re looking for a product somewhere around the £59.99 price point.

Quality

9.5

Price

8.5

Reviews

9.5

Overall

9.2

 

Today’s Price: £59.99

Olympus WS-853 8GB Dictation Machine review

Top customer reviews of Olympus WS-853 8GB Dictation Machine

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  • The WS-853 Stereo Recorder is perfect for capturing notes, meetings or lectures. With an ample 8GB memory plus an in-built microSD slot this MP3 recorder offers more than 2000 hours in mono or 133 hours in stereo. The integrated USB stick also allows connection to a computer with the need for a cable. Battery life is also over 100 hours; Stereo Recording for better quality. Over 2000 hours recording time. Built in USB to connect to PC or Mac without cables. Over 100 hours battery life (Recharge batteries included. ). Compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista /7/8/8.1 Mac OS X 10.5 10.9. Dot matrix. Built-in memory 8 GB. Voice activated. Recording time 2080 hours. Twin speed recording. Stereo voice recorder. Dictation and conference recording modes. Slow_fast playback. A to B repeat function. 5 folders. Built-in microphone. Built-in microphone and speaker. Integrated speaker. Can be used as an MP3 player. Storage via Micro SD. WMA files can be transferred and played. Built-in USB connector. None included, microphone, headphones and microphone. General information: Weight 271g. Size H15.5, W13, D4.5cm. Batteries required 2 x rechargeable (included) . Manufacturers 2 year guarantee.
  • Product codes: 8240903 4545350049041

The next step in our Olympus WS-853 8GB Dictation Machine Review is to identify some of the key areas that you should look out for when buying products in the Dictation machines category.

Firstly, read reviews. It sounds obvious I know, and let’s be honest, you are already following this piece of advice as that’s why you’re here, to read reviews. But we just want to emphasise how important it is to read plenty of customer reviews. If you can, try and find a variety of reviews. It’s often good to read expert opinions, but it’s even more important to read what customers think of products like Olympus WS-853 8GB Dictation Machine. Only by hearing it straight from the horses mouth, can you get a real feel for how good the product is, and whether it represents good value for money and good quality.

As you can imagine, there are endless amount of options when it comes to buying Dictation machines. In fact our database shows that there are 14 products in the category, and there are a total of 15 products available from Olympus. Of course Olympus make more than just Dictation machines though, so we’ve looked to see how many products are available from Olympus specifically in the Dictation machines category, and that is 8. So it’s easy to understand why reading Olympus WS-853 8GB Dictation Machine reviews is going to be an important step in the buying process, because it will help you narrow down from the vast choice.

When reading reviews we do encourage you to only look on reputable sources, using the online shops that you know well, for example on Olympus WS-853 8GB Dictation Machine we recommend looking at reviews on Argos.co.uk. Not only did they seem to have the most comprehensive reviews, but in our price checker they’re also offering Olympus WS-853 8GB Dictation Machine at the cheapest price.

Now let’s explore why Olympus WS-853 8GB Dictation Machine scored a massive 9.2 out of 10 in our review.

Earlier we presented a piece of advice to suggest that reading reviews is the most important step in the online buying process. Our second biggest priority when shopping around, is of course price. Checking the price of Olympus WS-853 8GB Dictation Machine at a number of retailers will make sure that you get the best deal possible. But as we mentioned, there are tons of shops selling Olympus WS-853 8GB Dictation Machine online. So we’ve taken the hard work away from you and run a price check on Olympus WS-853 8GB Dictation Machine to identify who’s selling it at the best price. In our latest scan we found that the lowest price was £59.99 at Argos.co.uk.

We also explained that it’s important to get an understanding of how a product is priced against other alternatives. So we’ve done that too. The average price of a product in the Dictation machines category was £66.06. The most expensive option we could find was £109.99 and the cheapest came in at £29.99.

It’s good to compare the price of products from the same brand too, so we’ve looked at the sort of price you can expect to pay for a Olympus product. The average is £139.92, the highest is £449.99 and the lowest was £39.99.

So there’s quite a few options available and the price can very quite significantly, but it does show that Olympus WS-853 8GB Dictation Machine is a good buy at just £59.99, which is why we scored it so highly in the price score, giving it an incredible 8.5 out of 10.

Olympus WS-853 8GB Dictation Machine Review

Another piece of advice we always give online shoppers is to try and ascertain how good quality the product is. That’s a very difficult thing to do when you aren’t able to physically see or touch the product. That’s why reading reviews is so important because we need to be able to try a product in order to determine its quality, so reading reviews does this for us. Essentially we are using other customer feedback to determine how good quality a product is. We looked through the reviews of Olympus WS-853 8GB Dictation Machine and actually they are very good with lots of positive remarks about the quality. That’s why we’ve scored it a very decent 9.5 out of 10.

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The final step in the process now is to go over to argos.co.uk to read lots of customer reviews before you commit to buy Olympus WS-853 8GB Dictation Machine, so go ahead and click the green button to read all of the Olympus WS-853 8GB Dictation Machine reviews.