If you're going to carry a media player, how best to keep your pocket from being picked? Strap it to your wrist, of course, which is exactly what you do with the Video Watch. This device ...

IQ test: what are the next letters in the sequence AM, FM, DAB? It would appear that the answer is WIFI, assuming the sequence is for methods of receiving radio. Actually, WiFi is only part of ...

The VMP-008 is classed as a sports MP3 player. Fortunately, that doesn't mean it can only play sports-related MP3s like "Eye of the Tiger", or Olivia Newton-John's "Let's Get Physical" (God forbid). Of course, it refers ...

There aren't many fields in the tech industry that you could argue are dominated by a particular make and model of hardware, but we believe the PMP (portable media player) market to be one of them. ...

Sandisk's Sansa e200 series of ‘Nano killers' received rave reviews across the market last year, playing a large part in putting the memory specialist's portable player range back on the map. Despite the fact that it ...

There are plenty of pocket media players around, many costing a good deal less than £150, but we'd wager there are next to none that work without a battery or mains connection. The clue here is ...

Sony has traditionally adopted a bit of a pompous stance with its portable music players, refusing to fall in line with the rest of the industry when it comes to adopting current standards. Despite this, the ...

If you're a big music fan you'll have noticed how accessible modern technology makes not only the albums and artists you have in your collection, but a wealth of additional downloadable and streaming content. As well ...

The portable media player has really come of age in the last year, with new generations launched from a variety of manufacturers. One of the founders of the genre, Archos, has just introduced its Generation 5 ...

Earlier this year Creative released a simple music player called the Zen Stone, as an obvious rival to Apple's iPod Shuffle. The big advantage of the Zen Stone was its price, but it was quite basic. ...

Becker has recently expanded its portfolio with a range of in-car oriented navigation and media playback solutions. The Vision Pro is its headline player for staying entertained on the move. In reality it's simply a jumped-up ...

Triangular music players are trendy at the moment and iRiver's T60 is about half the length of the smallest Toblerone. Available in a variety of colours, all three faces of the player are used. The front ...

Portable video players are proving to be an attractive alternative to audio-oriented MP3 players as an all-in-one solution, with Archos driving the market with its successful jukebox series. Reddmango attempts to challenge this success with the ...

Most video players are bigger than they need be. As well as the area devoted to the screen, they have to have controls to start and stop media, switch tracks and work through menus. Cowon has ...

People who have been in and around the technology industry for a decade or two might argue that we're nearing a peak, certainly in terms of consumer gadgets and peripherals. The elements that drive the industry ...

After a relatively quiet period on the media player front, iRiver promised some exciting new products at 2007's CES show, one of which is the innovatively designed Clix 2. The successor to the Clix is smaller ...

It seems all audio players are aimed in some way at a member of the iPod product line. TrekStor's Vibez has its eye on the iPod Nano, the music player in Apple's product line which has ...

When someone's innovative enough to come up with a new spin on a product in a market as saturated as MP3 players, it's usually not long before a flurry of rivals follow suit. But this hasn't ...

Where other companies have attempted to usurp Apple's dominance of the MP3 player market by offering alternative features such as video playback, higher capacities and cheaper prices, Sony is the closest yet to taking it on ...

If you want a full multimedia player, rather than simply requiring audio playback, you need one with a good LCD display and well-designed operating system. The iRiver X20 offers a bright, 56mm LCD and a number ...