what are you planning to record? for content like human voice for news reports, even covert/investigative stuff this would still be very good quality, the normal broadcast level is still “telephone quality” though ISDN is preferable nowadays. for nature recordings or live/classical music it isn’t the best. More important is whether this device has manual recording level (I couldn’t find any info about it).

lol my dad used to do that, it was probably how I got my interest in audio 😉

there are various android apps but they seem geared towards using only the devices internal mic, and/or dictation type recordings/covert type stuff, and its not clear if they have adjustable gain. even had a look at the SDK and what little I can understand of it hints that the audio will be highly compressed and have auto gain control to the point even the iriver might score higher..

Any recording can be a great recording, just depends what you want in the end result 🙂 I say this because I used a shitty cheap mp3 player to record a few sounds for a choon I was making, and the grittiness on the recording adds a certain something that would probably not be found on a perfectly clean recording made using the best gear…. Though tbh the quality was surprisingly good in the first place!