i am going to buy a DAP soon too (budget 100-130EUR incl. shipping costs for a 4GB mp3-player).
A great place for a quick overview of all well-sold products is
.:: mp3-player.de :: Your Personal MP3-Store :: Größte Auswahl an MP3 Playern
A great place for reviews and test results is
MP3 flash, which is a serious FREE quaterly mag on news|reviews|tests|ads on MP3-players.
*FYI* The DAP technology leaders are the Korean brands (Cowon iAudio; iRiver; Samsung) - the first company to produce commercial mp3-players was Mp3man (
MPMAN, Inventor of the mp3 player), also a Korean company. Trekstor and SanDisk products are cheap in price with, generally speaking, a cheap plastics touchNfeel (and dont seem to be satisfactory in the long run according to amazon user reviews). The ipod shuffle (and all other ipod variants) has a nice, expensive touchNfeel, but no screen/display.
Good luck! And let us know your final choice!!
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