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The new iPod touch 5th Generation lands with an excellent 16:9 screen, great looks and slick performance
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The new iPod touch 5th Generation lands with an excellent 16:9 screen, great looks and slick performance

A small and compact MP3 player that might lack frills but offers great battery life and sound quality.

Updated The most amazing thing about Apple's latest iPod touch is its colour. It's available in both black and white. No, we're not being glib - we mean it!

We discover an exciting and unique proposition - a high-resolution portable player/recorder with upsampling and a built-in DAC

If you want real broadcast quality audio for less than £200, then listen up!

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An MP3 player that offers expandable memory via SDHC

An MP3 player that doubles as a dictaphone

Somebody at Apple obviously hates the phrase "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" because it has completely redesigned its best selling iPod, the iPod nano, yet again. This year's model is half the height of the previous generation and has the same clip-on design as the new iPod shuffle. The big change is that there's no click wheel, just a screen.

The shuffle's old form factor returns, but is it a step backwards or a return to form?

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Does the world's most popular iPod really need an FM radio and a video camera. We're not so sure

The latest MP3 player to come from Creative

The Samsung YP-Q1 is the company's latest offering and continues to show Samsung as a company who just might take some small bites out of Apple's world domination.

As a low-end MP3 player, the Creative Zen Mozaic is worth a look. Despite the American spelling, there really isn't much to dislike about this one, and there's plenty to like.

The MP3 player market is saturated. It has been for years now, with every size, price point and storage benchmark catered for amply. However, when it comes to sound quality, it's hard to find a player that really stands up to be counted. The Creative Zen X-Fi, is the new exception.

An odd one, this. It's nearly full iPod-sized, despite being a mere 2-4GB. A lot of folk will find it less appealing than all the other flash-based players, wanting something they can carry without noticing.

Ever since the iPod arrived in 2001, the Walkman story has been a strange, rather downbeat affair. Sony's players have been dogged by uninspiring designs, iffy interfaces and a perverse insistence on proprietary formats like ATRAC, as well as DRM. All that has changed in the last couple of years, but is the Walkman brand now strong enough to finally turn things around? On this evidence, no. And here's why

The Creative Zen Micro caused a stir when it arrived. It looks good and draws comparisons with Apple's Mini. The Micro certainly lives up to its name: it's about the same size as a pack of cards and weighs 108g
It's never a good start when you have to upgrade a piece of hardware's firmware as soon as you take it out of the box, but unfortunately, that's exactly the position we found ourselves in when we unwrapped the chunky T10.

Just when there were starting to be too many iPods to choose from, Apple comes along and simplifies the entire range. The new all-singing,all dancing iPods now have colour screens and a few extra features

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