Gkaruk's Technological Blog

After around 18 months of holding off buying an MP3 player I decided it time to invest in one.  Like most people today I looked at the iPod but have heard from friends and colleagues ownership time of various problems with them.  I particulary didnt like the restrictions Apple impose on the owner, such as iTunes.

I started looking at other options and found an excellent site called AnyThingButIPod.com which covers news and reviews on most other MP3 players on the market.  I was initially looking for a memory based player for mountain biking, which I narrowed down to either a Sandisk Sensa E270, Samsung YP-Z5 or Creative Zen V Plus.  This is where I began reading a number of reviews for common down falls and issues in the players which lead me to another great site, dapreview.net.  After reading these reviews and checking of pricing I became to realise it could be worth extending my search to hard drive based players.  Based on the price of £183 from Comet.co.uk and the amount of features I bought a Creative Zen Vision:M player which I am very happy with.