My first impression of the interface was, like wow.. just because it has colour doesn't mean it should *use* all of the colours on every UI screen!

But I got over that within 10 minutes. The important bit (track title) stands out rather clearly from the rest of the clutter, and the tiny Spectrometer visual is nice. Heck, it even has Lyrics display on beat with the tunes, empeg style.

The only downsides for CDN$94 seem to be: (1) USB-1.1 instead of USB-2.0, so downloads are slow, but not as slow as for the empeg, and (2) it uses a 2.5mm headphone jack rather than the more standard 3.5mm variety. I'm off to the local ex-RadioShack shortly to pick up a $5 adapter for that, so I can use other more comfy headphones / earbuds with it.

The included AC charger is absolutely tiny and feather light, and works on 100-240VAC 50-60Hz. It sports a USB-A socket, so I'll use it to charge my bluetooth mouse as well, since it's half the size of the original charger for that device.

Pity my Palm Zire72 wants 5.2V for charging rather than 5.0V..

Cheers