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Creative Zen X-Fi2 32GB
The Creative Zen X-Fi2 is the company's first touchscreen MP3 player which includes expandable storage and native support for FLAC.
Apple iPod Nano (5th generation)
Not sure which new iPod to choose? The Nano's fifth incarnation wins hands down, with FM tuner and video camera being more than just cheap gimmicks.
Reviews
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Cowon D2+
The Cowon D2+ is a sturdy little touchscreen MP3 player with flexible sound enhancement settings and useful features, but it hasn't changed much from the 2007 version.
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Palm Pre
With webOS, Palm goes past matching its competitors and offers something more. The Pre might not be a home run, but it is an indication of good things to come.
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Meridian Sooloos Music Server
The Meridian Sooloos is a modular music server with an easy-to-use interface and one of the best Random modes we've seen. The downside? It's expensive.
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Sony Ericsson W302 Walkman
The Sony Ericsson W302 Walkman delivers good sound quality in a neat design for a low price. For those who want a decent, inexpensive phone that plays music, it's a good choice, but don't bother with the poor camera and web browser.
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Cowon S9
The Cowon S9 is a sexy-looking gadget with exceptional audio and video quality, but its construction quality and user interface pale in comparison to the competition.
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Motorola EM330
It is yet another clamshell phone from yet another phone company. So what sets this mobile phone apart from the others? Not much.
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Sony Ericsson W595 Walkman
This is a solid phone, aside from its lack of a real headphone socket. But if you're expecting anything radically new, you might want to wait a little while for Sony Ericsson to start innovating before you upgrade.
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Cowon O2 (32GB)
The O2 is a solid player, offering impressive video and sound quality and support for a massive list of filetypes.
Features
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Buyer's tips: Choosing the best music phone
The variety of music and media focused phones available can make it difficult to be sure you're getting the best device for your money. The following is the most important factors to consider before you hand over your coin or sign your life away on a long-term contract.
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MP3 players with advanced equaliser and surround sound options
Feel like massaging your sound? There are quite a few MP3 players with advanced equaliser options and special sound-processing effects.
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Dream Tech: DreaMP3 player
Surrounded by neat new technology, CNETers every once in while sit back and daydream about the perfect gadget. Here's the MP3 player that we dreamed up.
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Zip up your digital audio
Digital audio mavens who appreciate the highest-possible sound quality should investigate MP3 players that can play back lossless audio formats.
News
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VTech enters the home-audio market with music-streaming device
In an interesting move, VTech, the makers of wireless home phones, has entered the home-audio fray with the IS9181, a Wi-Fi-enabled internet radio receiver.
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Motorola ROKR EM30, EM325 and EM330: Rokr round the clock
Motorola announced three new ROKR branded music phones, each featuring a different form factor and size, but keeping true to its ROKR music phone heritage.
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Sony debuts Walkman with Bluetooth
Sony shows off its new Walkman lineup, led by an 8GB Bluetooth-enabled MP3 player called the NWZ-A828.
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Hacking Napster with Winamp
Bright sparks have figured out how to record songs from Napster's portable subscription service by saving them as unprotected WAV files. So what's to be done about online music security now?
DIYs and How-to
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How to record streaming audio
Many online music sites prefer to stream songs rather than serving them up as downloadable files. Here's a free way to record the audio as MP3s.
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Five ways to make digital music sing
Dissatisfied with the listening experience offered by today's cheap, one-off music downloads? Here are five suggestions for hearing music the way it's meant to be heard.
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How to rip audio from concert DVDs
There are many ways to rip audio from a live concert DVD so you can listen to the songs on your iPod, but here are two that are free and both Mac and PC compatible.
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Make a custom mix CD
Creating a custom mix of music for yourself or your friends is a long-standing tradition most music fans have tried at least once. We show you how to create a basic mix; make tweaks and edits to songs; and design an eye-catching cover.
Downloads
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uSeesoft MP3 Converter
Convert your audio files to MP3, WMA, or WAV formats.
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uSeesoft Audio Converter
Convert audio files between various audio formats.
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EArt Audio Cutter
Edit, cut, and convert your audio files.
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WavPack
Encode your audio files in lossless mode.
The Explain Series
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Get (laptop) smart before you buy
Win the numbers game and get the laptop that's perfect your needs as well as your budget!
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Microsoft Windows® 7. Your PC, simplified.
Windows® 7 has been designed to be more reliable, more responsive, and to make the things you do every day easier.
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Whereis® maps
If you’d like to get to know more of Australia, and do it safely, then check out Whereis® maps.
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| Apple iPhone 3GS 16GB | 35 plans |  3% |
| Nokia N97 | 41 plans | 2% |
| Sony Ericsson Satio | 12 plans | 1% |
| Blackberry Curve 8520 | 6 plans | 1% |
| Apple mobile phones | 3% |
| Nokia mobile phones | 1% |
| Sony Ericsson mobile phones | 1% |
| Blackberry mobile phones | 2% |
| Samsung mobile phones | 2% |
