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 ...

Apple's iPod may have the expensive, hard disk-based end of the digital audio player market tied up, with a high percentage of all players sold. At the cheaper, memory-based end, though, things are a lot more ...

Samsung's YP-K3 is in the 'thin and sleek' class of mobile music players. The black fascia surrounded by a silver frame should appeal to those who are into minimalism in a big way, while the small ...

Accessories for iPods are everywhere, but that's not the case for one of the best alternatives to Apple's nano range of music players, SanDisk's e200 series. Now three accessories have become available from Macally. All are ...

The latest company to offer a healthy alternative to the Apple Nano is Philips, whose 2GB GoGear 9200 almost exactly apes the weight and dimensions of the industry fave. It's obviously a pretty stylish device, then, ...

Sony's recent offerings in the MP3 player market have established the technology giant as a real friend to the true audio fanatic. Rather than packing players full of additional features like digital video support, Sony instead ...

Not many players have achieved a design as slim as the iPod Nano, but Maxfield's new Max-Ivy threatens to take on Apple in terms of both looks and features. At just 8.5mm thick it's just as ...

The search for the perfect iPod alternative is one that Indiana Jones would have tired of by now. There have been plenty of contenders to the throne, but none that can undoubtedly claim to be a ...

The Rimax Alum TVIX Jukebox is designed to help you play back compressed audio or video through your TV or home entertainment system. It's a stylish looking device housing a built-in 3.5-inch hard drive available in ...

Multi-function seems to be the buzzword these days for pretty much any piece of PC-related equipment, and Genius's latest is a case in point. Described as a 'portable media player' rather than a digital video camera, ...

We've seen a few innovative little touches from the MP3 player market recently, such as the excellent Kensington FX300 speaker case for listening to music without headphones. Samsung has come up with a similar idea with ...