I got a Sansa made by SanDisk for crimbo cant fault it for ease of use etc its got FM radio, photos, Videos, Voice recorder etc internal 4GB but unlimited external memory via the use of those little micro SD memory cards, sound wise I would put it up against the Ipod any day, the only bad point I could find is that the headphones ant that good so buy some better ones (saying that that was also the case for the Ipod)

I done a test with the misses Ipod using the same headphones same settings and same track etc: and there was nothing in it.