I forgot to mention one of the most important observations I made: the build quality is unfathomable. The whole thing is aluminum. It's built soooo tightly. I remember reading that it also has hard drive shock protection. The pictures don't do it any justice. It's an absolute beauty. It's also much more compact than the pictures indicate.

To those who think an fm tuner built-into an mp3 player doesn't get good reception...dead wrong.

Reliability has been great among iaudio users.

Wow, i keep editing my post to add more: this is the third time. Sound quality is leagues ahead of the ipod. Clarity, depth and power.