MP3 Players Hit Sub-£2 Mark

In randomly browsing a stack-'em-high-and-sell-'em-cheap shop (namely QD), I came across an mp3 player for only £1.99!! So far this is the cheapest I've seen mp3 players go for (previous record was ASDA selling them for a fiver).

Not a bad little player - It comes with all the usual stuff such as cheapo headphones, USB cable, lanyard and battery. But the surprise is that it has an SD card slot with a 128MB card already loaded. This is a real improvement on the usual ultra-budget mp3 players that normally can't be expanded. The card alone was probably worth the two quid. Sound quality is passable with the supplied headphones, but significantly better through a decent pair.

The only problem I had was with the supplied battery; It had a tiny bump on top if the plus terminal, which caused the battery to pop out of its holder when tapped. Flattened the bump out on a convenient hard surface and all was okay.

The player is made by Sitecom, and you can see it here.

The pricing of these seems to vary wildly (with Maplins selling them for £6 for example - then again, Maplin's aren't ever the cheapest place out there), so your mileage may vary.

I wonder how long it'll be before we start seeing them for a quid?

In the words of David Frost: "Hello...good evening...and welcome."

Well, here we go - This is really a sort of electronic scrapbook in which to put stuff that I find interesting, and maybe other people will like too. I don't intend to type rambling diatribes about the state of society or economies today, we all know what's going on there (or at least we believe what the media tells us) - nope, I'm not even going to go there.
Edit: Ooh, one thing I *am* going to try to do, is blog on about my progress in renovating a boat - won't that be fun :)