I've owned a couple of Rio's and a creative Nomad. I would stay away from the RIO 600, 800, and 900 due to the custome memory/battery packs. I have seen the new S30's and S35's --- they look good. RIO quality is great but the customer support stinks. I recently bout a RIO One for a friend and she loves it. The RIO One is a pretty good deal as you can get one for under 50 buscks on Ebay (rebuilt). There is only 32 meg internal memory but the device takes smart memory cards for expansion and you can add another 128 megs that way.