Tired of using iPod? Are you thinking about purchasing a new iPod Nano alternative? Then you might consider the newly launched Sonix 7 Media Pro PMP ( Portable Media Player ) from the popular British company Sonix7. The Player has become very popular with its exceptional long battery life. The small and cute PMP has increadible 30 hours of audio playback capability and 20 hours of Video playback. Not only battery life the player has a good storage capacity to store upto 4,000 songs and 14,000 photos or 60 hours of video in its inbuilt massive 16 GB memory.


The player has a 3.2 inch touch screen display and also comes with inbuilt digital camera and E-Book reader software. It supports almost all type of video formats like MP4, MPEG, AVI, XVID. So this is fearure enriched and is available at a price of 89 punds (8 GB model) and 104 pounds(16 GB model). So, you are getting much more features as well as bigger screen display than iPod nano. The Accelerometer feature can stabilize the display when you rotate the player horizontally or in vertically in 360 degrees.

Not only the E-Book reader it also has some applications loaded like digital clock and calendar and alarm. Even you can play games when you are bored in listening music or watching videos. An Explorer like view is attached for easy navigating to files (movies or mp3s) in folders. Even you can delete or cut-paste files also and for this you don’t need to connect it to PC.

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The player can be used to view images also. It supports popular image formats. The color display is only 2 inch size with resolution of 220 X 176 pixels. The player stands out in the same category PMP because of its high quality ear birds and Rhapsody music subscription DNA. Rhapsody subscriber can best use the player with advanced feature dedicated to Rhapsody.

The player supports only MP3 and WMA music formats. There is no support for OGG Vorbis or WAV or FLAC formats like the other competitor players. Philips claims that the pmp can play music for 30 hours long and 6 hours of video.

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The latest model from Coby is MP600, which is almost equivalent in many respect to the latest iPod Nano. The outside design completely matches the design of iPod Nano. It will definitely catch your eyes with its ultra slim design and finishing. The Coby MP600 portable media player comes with controls that are very smooth and easy to use.  The player features a 1.44 inch CSTN LCD having  resolution of 128 x 128 and an integrated FM tuner. It also supports photos( JPEG), videos ( MTV ) and MP3 and WMA for audio as well. It stores meda files in the inbuilt flash memory having capacity up to 4GB of storage. For connectivity with PC or laptop it uses USB 2.0 for high speed file transfer. All these features make Coby MP600 a complete portable digital entertainment device.

It has support for song and lyric display using ID3 and LRC. The supported OS are Windows Vista / XP / 2000 and supported languages includes English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian and German.

Using Coby’s MP600, anybody can carry the entire digital entertainment library on the road. The device is slow slim having dimension of 1.57 x 3.12 x 0.41 inches (W x H x D).  An integrated rechargeable 300 mAh Lithium Polymer battery powers the device with an audio playing time of 10 hour. It has a very affordable price of USD $20 for the 2GB model and USD $29.99 for the 4GB.

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Best Hard Drive based Mp3 Player:

Microsoft Zune:
If anything you can think of as an alternative to Apple’s iPod, then Zune player from Microsoft will be definitely your choice. TechCuBeTalk editor team has proudly selected Zune as the number# 1 PMP (Portable Media Player) over non iPod category. Microsoft has significantly improved the firmware and built in software of Zune for a long time along with the hardware and design. The new Zune version has inbuilt marketplace software to download popular music or mp3 songs at a very nominal price. This even comes loaded with first 14 days free trial.
Microsoft has improved a lot in the storage place of the software to 120 GB. It has a very good quality Wi-Fi system which you can use to connect to any hotspots on the way. Even Microsoft has collaborated with MacDonald’s for its Zune player to take advantage of the large collection of MacDonald’s hotspots.
The design of Zune player is very impressive with black back and glossy plastic finish in the front. The all black look is quite attractive but prone to scratches. The 3.2 inch LCD display can show true color of the video playback. It supports H.264 and MPG4 video format as well as WMV too. The screen size is much bigger than the classic iPod. So you can enjoy full movie in this large LCD display.
One of the great features of Zune is that this hard drive based PMP supports FM tuner. So you can enjoy Music as well as FM radio with the same player. This is a major feature which we are missing in the iPod Classic. The player also comes with some good stuff like Audible.com audiobooks, some good games and puzzle and clock application.

 Best Flash Drive based Mp3 Player:

Creative ZEN X-Fi :
Creative Zen X-Fi is chosen by us in the best Portable Media Player category because of its exhaustive feature list that you would get in a very affordable price. The basic model starts with 8 GB capacity and next two models are of 16 GB and 32 GB capacities. The 8Gb model costs as low as 149 USD only. You’ll get more deals if you search in either ebay or Amazon or buy.com.
Pros: The player with impressive feature list runs award-winning X-Fi ( Xtreme Fidelity ) Audio technology to enhance the sound quality of the MP3 song to such an extent that it looks like you are listening the song live. It looks like more natural when you experience it with EP-830 earphones.
The player also has built in FM player, voice recorder, WiFi capability, 8 band Equilizer, personalized alerm. The player also comes with a powerful in built speaker so you don’t need to carry speakers when you want to hear it loud. It supports WMA , WAV , ADPCM , Audible , MP3 , AAC formats.
Cons: The plastic body looks quite unfinished because of sharp edges used in the control buttons. There is no backlit present in the navigation buttons. In terms of design the PMP doesn’t have impressive design.

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