The pause button is located towards the side of the device. Furthermore, if you’ve played a track, and then navigate to the track listing, and then press the "Pause" button, you are asked whether you want to delete the song from the track list, instead of pausing the the song that’s playing like you’d expect. Such goof-ups are unforgivable, but should be rectifiable via firmware upgrades, which we hope will happen very soon.

The other PMP from Mitashi is the MWI-4GA, which boasts of a 2.4-inch LCD display – the largest display from among the PMPs in our test. It’s a little thick for our tastes, but not enough to call it bulky. The entire body is chromed and this is relieved only by the black-coloured eyelet provided on the top, presumably to strap it to your belt or wrist. There’s a loudspeaker vent on the rear. Its buttons are positioned to the right side which is inconvenient.

Not only is feedback absent, but the buttons are so recessed into the player that they are actually hard to press — we found ourselves using our nails solely for the purpose of skipping a track, or pausing playback or other common tasks. After a while, your nails begin to hurt from the pressure of using the keys – unforgivable design goof-ups! While still on design flaws, how about the absence of a 3.5-mm stereo jack? The MWI-4GA uses a rare 2.5-mm jack that we’re used to seeing in budget CDMA handsets and this, perhaps, is a more unforgivable blunder than the previous one.

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