Samsung has started selling their YP-S2 washed-river-pebble-esque MP3 player. $58 gets you 2GB. Light-weight at 13.6 grams. Feature comparison to iPod Shuffle, iriver Mplayer and the Zen Stone at this link.

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PC World ranks the top 10 flash based MP3 players:

1. Creative ZEN (score: 83)
2. Creative Zen V Plus (80)
3. Apple iPod Nano (79)
4. Apple iPod Touch (79)
5. iRiver Clix Gen 2 (78)
6. SanDisk Sansa Connect (77)
7. Samsung YP-P2 (75)
8. Microsoft Zune 8GB Red (75)
9. SanDisk Sansa View (75)
10. SanDisk Sansa e280 (74)
The PCW evaluation consisted [...]

News site CNMO.com has posted some photos of what they say is an updated second-generation M8 User Interface showing better EQ, song lyrics, album art and audio player controls. Others such as posters at fansite MeizuMe claim CNMO Spreads False Rumors Again, and assert the pics are old fakes.
…who knows, but we’re leaning towards faux [...]

Akihabara uncrates the new E100 media player from iriver and provides a short review.
The E100 measures 92.8×47.8×11.3mm, weighs 59grams, has a 2.4-inch QVGA screen, capacity up to 8GB, FM radio and supports WMA/OGG/MP3/ASF/FLAC audio as well as MPEG4/WMV9/XVID video.
The reviewer appreciated the ‘excellent audio quality’, the click-on-the-screen D-Click interface and the overall design, but [...]

DAPreview reviews the Zune 80 portable media player from some co called Micosoft. Yes…that’s the 80 GB MP3 player which been available since November of 2007…about four months ago.
The fundamentals for the Zune 80 include a 3.2-inch 320×240 screen, support for MP3, WMA, WMA Pro/Lossless, AAC, WMV, MPEG-4 and H.264 formats, an FM radio [...]

Sony has announced the A820 family of Walkman video and MP3 players, with Bluetooth.
The top-of-the-line NWZ-A829 has 16GB of memory and goes for about $320. Battery life is good at 36 hours/audio & 9 hours/video.
The 320×240 QVGA screen has been enlarged to 2.4 inches to play video at up to 30 fps [...]

According to Wired Magazine, the new Slacker Portable music player is no slacker. The SlackPort has been in the pipeline for about a year now, and Wired finally got their hands on 1 and reviewed it.
In summary, they liked it giving the thing 8/10, saying it was worth the wait.
The Slacker Portable connects by Wi-Fi [...]

In case you missed it, Taser International, that purveyor of electroshock equipment, is indeed exhibiting at CES 2008. Taser is located in booth #3433, where you’ll find some stunning new equipment.
They’re showing off their new fashion line of patterns and colors, some of which can be accessorized with a 1GB MP3 player. Shocking indeed…on [...]

Gizmodo got a hold of a Nokia N95 phone/GPS/computer/etc and was kind enough to review it for us…
The Gizmodo reviewer starts off with a significant negative of the device, namely complexity. The converged functionality of a device that combines — GPS, a music player, 160MB of memory & a microSD slot, 5MB camera & a 2nd [...]

With a 9.3% market share, Sansa is outperforming all of the other iPod wannabes. And now, Sandisk has an impressive new-ish Sansa Connect (last year’s Zing with a facelift) Mp3 player should increase that market share figure to 9.3%.
The Connect has a 2.2 inch QVGA screen, 4GB of flash memory with a microSD expansion slot, sized at 3.58×2.05×0.63 [...]