The 4GB Sansa Fuze handles music, videos, FM radio and voice recording with kick-ass usability, giving Apple devotees a good excuse to ditch their Nanos and embrace the joy of drag and drop.

The ultimate, but drastic, solution to skipping car CDs.

Not without its impracticalities, but the touch is a simply brilliant marriage of software and hardware

UMPC-like features and a spacious hard disk make the Archos appealing, but it’s only good for entertainment.

Great in day-to-day use, but poor software and high price dent its appeal.

There’s now very little reason not to buy an iPod. These are simply superb.

Is it a kids' toy? Almost: it's a shakeable MP3 player. We put it through its paces.

Beautiful, yet expensive. And with the iPhone's forthcoming release, is it worth it?

Enjoy your music on the move: we try out five of the best flash-based MP3 players on the market.

The new iPods are in, and so is our first take.

Stacks of potential, but current hardware is underwhelming and the client software a mess.

Sounds like the brand name of a Mexican cockroach bomb, doesn’t it?

Sexy, isn’t it? And it might just knock Apple’s iPod Nano off its pedestal.

Well, the fact that the speakers reproduced sound from the iPod at all has to count for something.

Microsoft prepares to take on the portable music player industry's heavyweight: Apple. Would you believe it?

It may look distinctively call-centre-ish, but it's hard to ignore quality when you hear it.

A quality voice recorder and an iPod Video. The dictaphone's days are surely numbered.

With new, supercharged battery life, the new iPods offer superb design and performance. But compatibility caveats remain.

It doesn’t look any different to the old iPod, but that doesn’t mean Apple hasn’t done anything to it.