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Best Ultra-Portable Music Players
Thinking about picking up a new pocketable media device? These days, it can be like choosing a new kind of deodorant: mildly overwhelming. We here at Switched are dedicated to minimizing your boredom, and this roundup of flash-based media players should help you decide on the most efficient way to achieve the ever-elusive Constant State of Media Entertainment zen. Flash-based media players are more pocketable than your standard-size iPod, and more durable as well: they don't have hard drives inside them, which means no delicate moving parts, which means they can be by your side at all times (the tradeoff, of course, is storage space and screen size). Here are seven compact media players worth your free time and money.
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Subscribe to commentsryanincJan 3rd 2009 2:00PM
Love the inclusion of the Slacker player! I'm a huge Slacker fan and I have to disagree with your conclusion that it sounds "noticeably worse" than mp3s. Try playing it through a nice sound system and you'll notice a huge difference!
Also, their new service only costs $3.99 a month, in addition to the more expensive, $7.50 service.
DarkLightJan 3rd 2009 6:42PM
Dude, none of those is an ultraportable music player.
For ultraportable _music_ (not media) players, try the ones without a screen. Or the ones with monochrome text screen that read the files off microSD cards.
EddyJan 3rd 2009 11:15PM
Just seeing that my Sony Walkman made the list put me at ease in a way. It's funny though, what you guys noted about it made perfect sense, the fact that it's solid. Good quality for a good price.