Long story sideways, the Philips HDD070 is the player for you. The thing is, a digital audio player really is more than a piece of hardware. Like it or not it makes a statement about you, even if that statement is 'Please mug me for my iPod'.

In addition we have to admit that we have really fallen for the new generation of mini hard drive units which combine a tiny case, barely larger than a Flash player, with a decent storage capacity and all at a very fair price. Why spend £100 on a small solid state player, or £170 on a BenQ 150, when you can score 2GB of Philips goodness for less than the latter?

The kicker here is the Creative MuVo. We love the MuVo NX and no doubt the MuVo TX will turn out to be wonderful but the basic 128MB MuVo is falling in price at a rate of knots and at £60 or less it's worth having just to drop in your pocket when you need a spot of music on the move.

No doubt in time we will be able to store a decent amount of high quality music on our mobile phones, and will have the battery life to back it up, but that won't be any time soon. Until then you need a dedicated music player and the Philips HDD070 should be it. That or the Creative MuVo.