"It's like an iPod Video, but not made by Apple." Creative, along with other Apple competitors, has been struggling against this perception since the iPod defined the market. Yet despite bearing more than a passing resemblance ...

The term MP3 player has become generic for pocket-sized music players, but in reality the high-end models do a lot more than play music tracks. The i-Station i2 is a fully-fledged multimedia player, offering recorded TV ...

MP3 players come in all shapes and sizes and the Z5 from Korean manufacturer Iops is one of the smallest so far. About the size and shape of a pair of AA batteries side by side, ...

Here at IT 2Net we admire products and companies that show innovation and that certain je ne sais quoi, and here's MSI with its Mega Player 516 BT, which is an MP3 player that doubles up ...

You probably expect that a Sony MP3 player will be small, sleek and silver in colour, and perhaps it will have a Memory Stick slot tucked away somewhere. So it may come as a surprise to ...

Oh woe is you. You have such great tunes and playlists on your iPod MP3 player, but you can't share your sounds with other people in a group-listening session. Well, there are actually plenty of ways ...

There's increasing convergence between straight music players, digital voice recorders and photo viewers. Samsung wants a piece of that action and has just released the YH-925 as its latest pitch. This PDA-sized gadget has a 1.8-inch, ...

The lines are beginning to blur between high-end MP3 players and low-end multimedia devices. This mirror-finish, multi-format player, produced by the Korean EZ-AV Corporation, has a number of excellent features which make it a real contender ...

Portable MP3 players are everywhere. If you don't have something that fits in your pocket and plays digital audio already you must surely be in the minority. So what can a new product offer if you ...

SanDisk is best known for its storage cards, but has just released a portable music player, the Sansa, in two capacities. We've reviewed the 1GB version which is silver and white in colour, but a 512MB ...

In the scramble to find viable marketing rivals to the mighty iPod, iRiver is one of the few companies to have tried to go head-to-head with as much innovation or extra features as possible, even if ...

When you first pick up the iRiver PMP 140 you'd be forgiven for thinking that this was a new games console, as its design is roughly a cross between a Gameboy and the old Sega Game ...

Style is very much at the top of Aigo's agenda. So while our review model of its latest flash MP3 player may only have 128MB of on-board storage space, it's wrapped up so stylishly that it's ...

Ever since Apple's mighty iPod hit the shelves, the competition has been running round like scalded cats designing MP3 players that might still be attractive to an ever-hungry music market. Cheaper machines with similar amounts of ...

It's not difficult to deduce that Creative got the idea for its Zen Micro hard drive music player from the Apple iPod mini. Technically the two players have a fair amount in common, and they have ...

There are many doomsayers who proclaim that the music CD is dead and that the age of the MP3, the iPod and all related portable music devices are the future of the industry. Whether or not ...

Pure Digital, or the artist formerly known in one guise as Videologic, is the latest firm to have a tie-in with a designer. We've had Microsoft involving Starck to make some rather ugly mice, while Pinnacle ...

The trend for more traditionally computing-related firms to edge towards the home entertainment arena has already seen the likes of Videologic and Apple pretty much switch sides. Creative isn't going that far, and still has its ...

The Netgear MP101 is a media streamer and decoder with both wired and wireless Ethernet connections, a remote control, and an LCD display. In other words, it's a home MP3 player with network connections built in. ...

One of the most heavily competitive accessory markets at the moment has to be for the portable music player, which has recently had the quality bar raised by the arrival of Apple's iPod. But for those ...