MP3 players

[Vee-X]

holiday soon in Canada, wondering what the best option would be for tunes, mp3 players anyone bought the sony one, and are these better worse than the iPod, just like the increase of battery life.

which if any is best anyone have industry knowledge?

cheers

[paddy27]

Morning,

I use the sony one, think its hd3 or something, the one with the 20gig hard drive.
Its great, great battery life and holds so much music on it.
I find it easy to use as well.

[mutt k]

Creative Zen Micro, but only because I hate the hype attached to iPods

[juk]

Archos AV Series might be worth a look at.

[julianhj]

recent Sony MP3 thread

HTH

[mechsympathy]

juk said:

Archos AV Series might be worth a look at.

Especially if you have a digital camera as they have built in card readers so you can store pictures direct

[juk]

mechsympathy said:

juk said: Archos AV Series might be worth a look at. Especially if you have a digital camera as they have built in card readers so you can store pictures direct

Not totally built in (to mine anyway - AV480) need an adaptor for usual digicam cards tho' it can read some sorts directly.

[planetdave]

The thing about iPods is...they're like VHS. Not the best but you can get so many bits for them to suit almost any situation.

Really are a good default unless you deffo want some unavailable feature.

[staceyb]

I like the look of the new sony bean, it looks like a jelly bean. www.sony.co.uk/PageView.do?section=en_GB_Products&article=1123689751309&productcategory=%2FAudio%2FPortable+Audio+-+Walkman&site=odw_en_GB&page=ProductCategoryHomeWithArticleFirstSection

info looks good and sounds better than ipod, and its ickle.
yes i know girly

[a2z]

We have just bought a couple of cheap creative players. We didn't want to spend loads so got some 512mb players. We looked at the ipod shuffle and it has a few flaws, the biggest for us being that you can only charge it via the usb port (£20 for a mains adaptor) We intend to use them on holiday so the main consideration was that it ran on AAA batteries as you will be scuppered if it goes dead on the plane.

speaking to the guy in the shop, it looks as if the Sony ones are amongst the best. The headphones seem to be the biggest factor in sound quality and sony make some of the best in my opinion.

[pmanson]

iRiver H320 or H340.

Colour screen, works as an external HD so you can drag and drop files/music etc onto it