4 things that sold me on the Karma over the iPod; and keep me happy with my decision

- Battery, battery, battery. With all the bad press the iPod gets for it's battery, much less the fact that the Karma has better life to begin with....this is a big one

- Gapless! I bought an iRiver for about a week before I changed my mind and went with the Rio. With someone like me it's so annoying to hit next and have to wait a second for the track to queue up and find out it's not even a track you wanted to listen to....The iPod is even worse with that.

- Formats. Oh how I love my Ogg. 'nuff said.

- it isn't some trademark white box that everybody and their dog owns. Again, 'nuff said.