Apple iPod Touch 2011 (32GB, black)

The good: Apple's iPod Touch comes with a new color, a new price, and feature-packed OS. It records HD video, chats over video or iMessages, checks your e-mail, keeps your appointments, connects to the cloud, rents movies, plays music, takes pictures, and plays more games than any of its competitors.

The bad: Photo quality doesn't hold up to the iPhone 4's; there's no GPS, and no option for 3G data service.
The bottom line: The iPod Touch is the best iPod yet, offering all the fun of the iPhone experience without a carrier contract or monthly bill.

Cowon iAudio10 MP3 player review

The big question is, when your phone can offer a media player with 32GB and more storage, and very likely a perfectly good syncing software with your computer, why oh why would you want a standalone Flash MP3 player? Cowon's new iAudio10 wants to be the answer.

Design
Cowon's iAudio10 device won an award from the Japan Institute of Design earlier this year, which can't be bad; and sure enough, it's a sleek piece of kit. It's slim, flat on the screen side and gently curved on the back, which is covered with a tactile rubberised plastic -- it's a nice looking sliver of tech.
On the sides are a volume rocker and power/sleep button, with a neat 3.5mm headphone jack on the bottom. There's also a plastic cover hiding a proprietary power/sync port that links to standard USB or analogue TV out, and a microphone for recording conversations or music at up to 256Kbps.
The 3-inch screen itself isn't touch sensitive, but the panel below it is, operating as a seven-way D-pad and allowing you to scroll to find your way around. Start it up and you're treated to Cowon's Colour Therapy animated UI, which looks pretty, despite the relatively low resolution of 400x240 pixels and offers a few customisation options such as changing the colours.