Is there any real competitor for the iPod classic?

If you are looking for a non touch screen player - the only one I can think of is the Sansa Fuze+ that comes with 16GB and the option to exepend using a micro SD card up to 40GB.

If you are looking for high capcity players (including touch screens) Archos and Cowon have a few competitors (Cowon's X7 is like and ipod touch only with 120 or 160GB for a much better $/GB ratio).

Ipod contact is more desirable extreme priced it really is why I refuse to purchase it. A 8 GB is $299. and a 16GB is $399. the web i'm guessing is an similar as my psp and my psp has hassle getting logged into myspace with the aid of high quality and plug-ins. If it enables plug-ins then it prob. will. The Ipod classic is $249.00 for a 80GB and $349.00 for a 160GB those are the purely GB that they arrive in in. i'd say bypass for the Ipod classic, yet I have an Ipod Video. with the aid of issues i have had with the Ipod employer I switched to a distinct employer and were given a Zune. i love my Zune. It has the finest effective houses which incorporates a talk function. i have under no circumstances used mine, even with the indisputable fact that it is assume to provide help to talk such as your associates and also you'll deliver one yet another songs. it is the same value because the Ipod Video. I also favor to improve because my Ipod Video is thoroughly crammed and that i purely have like 11GB left on my Zune, and that i under no circumstances use my PSP yet purely have 1/2 a GB left on it. i develop into taking under consideration upgrading to a Zen, yet i'd get the Ipod classic. 80GB may bypass a lot farther than 30 or a lot less. It relies upon on how a lot song you've or hearken to also. i have been conventional to different courses and events so I honestly have my band song and choir song on it, and then I hearken to all song so I consistently placed on all of us i have listened to and the recent songs out and then If I honestly have a live performance arising I placed that song on there so as that i recognize what it appears like. in case you stick with those steps, then i'd bypass for the Ipod classic so that you've plenty more desirable storage. otherwise because the apple employer isn't that great if I were you i'd get a Zune in case you would truly have internet and that stuff on it.

Not quite. It's a unique piece.