Apple's relentless cycle of annual upgrades means that the latest version of the Apple iPod Touch is the fourth generation of this all-conquering handheld device. Blimey, time flies. From day one the iPod Touch has offered ...

Sony has created four distinct families of Walkman MP3 players that appear as though they have been designed to plug into the tiny gaps in Apple's product range between the all-conquering iPod Touch, Nano and Shuffle. ...

A quick glimpse at Apple's latest sales numbers suggests that sales of iPods are actually waning for the first time in a while, given that so many of us own one of Apple's omnipresent digital media ...

Ultra-portable MP3 players were big business when they first arrived on the scene, offering music lovers a tidy and unobtrusive way to carry collections of music around without taking up an entire pocket. A quick “shuffle” ...

On the face of it the iRiver E200 has a huge amount going in its favour. The player has a metal casing that gives it a supremely solid feel and the front is dominated by a ...

At first glance the Sony NWZ-S544 8GB Video Walkman looks like a sleek, candy bar mobile phone, but when you look closely the stereo speakers reveal this is actually a Portable Media Player that handles music ...

It's almost with a sense of nostalgia that we unpack the iAudio E2, a device that suggests that the ‘faceless' MP3 player market is still ticking away in the background amidst a swathe of equally portable, ...

We have to admire the candidness of the manual of the Xenta HDMI Media Player. At first we dismissed the 12-page guide as the usual token hodge-podge of information. But shame on us, as it's actually ...

Most people think of Viewsonic as a monitor manufacturer, but in the last few years the company has diversified considerably, into projectors, Media Centre PCs and most recently into portable media players. The VPD400 and its ...

Most handheld players major on one aspect of what they can do; usually audio or video playback. By contrast, the Mintpad, from South Korean maker Mintpass, names its device after its note-taking abilities. Which isn't to ...

SanDisk has made a name for itself in the MP3 player market. The early Sansa range of players offered good value for money, good sound quality and the extraordinarily consumer-friendly ability to have their internal memory ...

It seems hard to imagine a world where there are any other MP3 players of note aside from the unavoidable iPods and yet it wasn't that long ago that Creative's Zen range made a big stir ...

It perhaps goes without saying, but there's a reason that Apple is so dominant in the portable media player market. There's a reason why Microsoft, no matter how much cash it pumps into its Zune project, ...

Part of Sony's new X-series of Walkman portable media players, the NWZ-X1050 sports a brand new design and makes a variety of improvements over previous versions. Things get off to a good start with the 3-inch ...

We looked at the original Cowon D2 some while back and concluded that it was a well designed, useful, touch-screen-driven pocket media player, but wondered whether it had enough memory, at a maximum of 4GB. Things ...

The phrase ‘fallen from grace' would be unnecessarily harsh when referring to Creative's current position in the MP3 player market, but the company that was instrumental in the early development of the digital audio portable has ...

If you are looking for a portable Internet and media playback device then the Archos 7 could well appeal. Coming in 160GB and 320GB versions and with a 7-inch screen capable of 800 x 480 pixels, ...

Much like Archos with its successful Media Player series, Cowon is one of a handful of companies that has remained quite active in the Portable Media Player market, regularly updating its devices with new designs and ...

We've been big fans of Archos's series of portable media players in the past, so were itching to try out the new Archos5 Internet Media Tablet to see what new features it brings to the table. ...

With so many media viewers available, the P-7000 from Epson is something of a surprise. It costs a lot more than most and is considerably bigger. About the size of the body of a traditional SLR ...