An industry-wide shortage of a key flash memory chips will hit the availability of some models of MP3 player during the upcoming holiday shopping period, the head of Creative Technology Ltd.’s U.S.

Of all the Brando products I’ve seen this is the one I’d be most inclined to use. The Brando USB MP3 Player has a tiny memory card slot that can read music stored on your MMC or SD card. Depending on ...

Sanyo thinks that including built-in memory in MP3 players is passé, so that’s why its DMP-M400SD requires you to purchase your own SD cards on which to store your music. While this probably helps ...

The iPod has some serious competition. Due in September, SanDisk’s Sansa e280 MP3 player will offer 8 Gbytes of flash memory for just $249. That’s equal to 128 hours of playback, or approximately 2000 ...

The good: Great display; user-friendly controls; music player; 1.3-megapixel camera; Bluetooth; expandable memory slot; support for push-to-talk networks; delivers on performance. The bad: ...