It's nice to see someone looking at mp3 players other than the Apple offerings. The Creative Zen Nano pictured above was their favorite.
Apple gets most of the attention in the digital music arena -- its iPod is a runaway success -- but Apple just recently introduced its first flash-based players. This category is growing fast and will eventually dominate the digital music player market. Market research firm IDC says the flash player market will hit 50 million units worldwide in 2008, up from 12.5 million in 2003.
Players that use flash memory are smaller, lighter and cheaper than hard drive-based units like Apple's iPod and Dell's Jukebox. But they also hold far fewer songs -- usually up to 1,000 versus up to 10,000 songs on some hard drive-based players.
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