Is This The World’s Smallest Media Player? Should We Care? October 19, 2006

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This is the Ultra Portable Personal Media Player & Recorder and it sure is small. I’m not sure if you want to be watching video on the 1.5in screen but then I’ve been on journeys so long that I'd watch paint dry on a screen the size of my fingernail.

This little gadget is designed to view content off SD/MMC memory cards since it only comes with a weenie 256Mb of on-board memory. That probably explains why it only costs around £50. Alongside photo and video viewing, it has an in-built FM radio and voice recorder. While I admit that it looks cute, there’s no info on screen resolution and there’s not enough formats supported for my liking. Also, I'm tiring fast of uber-cheap players with dubious quality.

Let’s put it this way: it looks the same size as the Creative Zen V Plus which can do it all too – very well - and costs around £100 for a 2GB model. I know what I’d plump for.-Martin Lynch

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