For your budget, I'd say creative is your best bet. Sounded pretty decent for its price. Check out for zen nano. Cost less than rm200

Well, I can only think of the iaudio and Meizu. Bad thing is that these doesn't come cheap

Hard to get these in Malaysia...anyway you can check it out here http://www.cowonglobal.com/

what is *99 means anyways?
If you can get your hands on some old samsung models and iriver...they are probably your best bet. But with your budget you can hardly get a creative =.=;

+ve sounded pretty good. Sounded a little bit bassy though.
-ve Bad software

My housemate is using the K5. Very good battery life, can easily last more than 20 hours if listen to earphone. nice touch pad as well. Speaker can last 5 hours if I'm not mistaken.

The problem with this model is that is is quite expensive and little bit bulky

If you are traveling a lot, you can always get the batteries outside easily. For my case, If my player got only 1 bar left, I just bring a spare just in case it dies.

U3 design is very neat and looks kinda cool. one of my friend have them. I'll give some comments after comparing them with my t30.

Hm...hi there, after quite a bit of listening, I can conclude to you that:
- the u3 touch pad is a little bid too sensitive, button are quite close for big fingers like me
- sound quality, they are quite good. t30 is slightly better. A little bit different sounding I'd say.. (stock earphones) stock earphones doesn't sound so good. You might want to change them. (ksc75 is a good choice)
- amp them, the t30 is better.
- superb fm radio, damn clear. Very good reception. The best so far I've tried


When you are commuting or going somewhere suddenly your battery dies off. Don't tell me you will stop by the cc, surf for few hours then only continue your journey? Anyways, different ppl have different needs

Sony mp3s sounded great with superb battery life. It sounded a little bit bassy, clarity is good. However, sonicstage = headache

well, did you know that you can actually recharge 2-4 batteries aaa at one time and bring all of them as extras? If that is not convenient enough, I don't know what is. 2 aaa batteries can easily last me 2 weeks for 2-3 hours of listening every day. Anyways, this is going to be a pointless debate and is going nowhere

well, how old are they? I have one...you want? Built quality wise, is pretty good. SQ is very good with very strong output. I don't really need an amp to power my headphones. However, they are not that suitable for outdoors.

Hm.. battery life not that bad la since can recharge. The hdd is quite sensitive if there's a lot of movement. Other than that, they are great.

creative mp3s are affordable. The SQ also is quite reasonable for its price. Battery life I think almost 20 hours can be achieve with aaa batteries.

Yes they do

Yes there is, but I am not so sure how it works. Maybe you can google about them