I've had the fortune of trying out quite a few brands.....
Ilo - piece of crap your screen will break and/or the headphone jack will glitch causing one side to cut off and on repeatedly.
Sony - Psync's are terrible. You can use mp3's but you have to load them into Sony's Sonicstage program first and it turns it into an atrac3 file on the device....you can't even trade files from another computer without "erasing all files from a different computer". Horrid flaw where the battery cover thingy pops open with a light tap....the battery then comes loose and resets your music back to song one. No radio or voice record....booooo.
RCA - cheap but also cheap
Ipod - nice but your paying for the name and your paying an arm and a leg for that name. Videos are the neat extra here of course.
but out of all of em...
the Creative Zen Nano Plus is my favorite by far. Nice small little square design, easy menus and interface, voice record, fm radio, LINE IN so you can make an mp3 from ANYTHING, drag and drop file transfer and nice sound. Check it out.
