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I have the new Zune80. It's pretty much amazing. I've had an ipod before, and a Creative Muvo. The Creative was really nice, but I have way too many songs to choose from. I needed something to hold everything.
The Zune works great and looks great and feels great. There are a few bugs, but overall it is the best device on the market for its price.
I'm quite fond of my SanDisk Sansa M-series players. Mum's got the m240 (1GB) and mine's the m250 (2GB); both of them are simple (black-and-white blue-backlit screen), broadly compatible since they're basically mass-storage (mine's befriended multiple Windows PCs and my uncle's iBook with OS X), and relatively indestructable - though I had to RMA my original player (firmware corruption, a known problem with v4.0.44a).
(Interestingly enough, to make it work at all, you have to go through and change the USB setting from Auto Detect to MSC.)
All in all, they're inexpensive, somewhat quirky, and featureful for what they are. Better yet, they take a single AAA battery, and get 12 to 15 hours off alkalines, and nearly as much off of 1.2v NiMH rechargeables. They have a recording feature, playlist support (though it's a little finicky), an equalizer, an FM radio tuner, a stopwatch (hah!) and headphones that don't suck as much as you'd expect.
The m250 in action:
That looks pretty cool. Oh and Aerosmith, someone knows their music lol.
I just love my Zune. 8 GB, wireless sharing, pics, videos, etc.
Bam.
Creative!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
