I bought this for £65 from a rip-off store in central London. At the time you could get them for just over £50, now at that price you could probably get a lot more memory. I had to bargain down from £80 on the one I bought, convinced that the retail price was much higher. Naturally, I was not happy with it when I discovered the truth. However, having decided there was no point travelling back to return it (the train fare alone would cost me the difference in buying it elsewhere) I decided to open it, and found that it's actually not that bad. OK, it's good.

It has 2 different play modes. All the songs can be played in order, or 20 randomly selected songs. The positioning of the buttons is awkward. The hold slide is on the opposite side to the play/stop button. It can be difficult to switch the hold on or off without stopping or starting your player. This really defeats the object of a 'hold' button - especially if you do not notice when the 'play' button has been pressed. A couple of times already I have found the MP3 player to have been left on with the battery almost run down.

Whilst you can now get players with far more than 512mb, consider how long you need to play it for at a time, how many songs you will need to put on it and whether you really need to spend more money on more memory. I've managed to cram in most of my favourite songs and of course if you get bored of them you can always chop and change. On the other hand, if you like to have a huge variety of music, because, say, your mood changes quickly, this will not be near enough for you.

The headphones are a huge disappointment. For a start they are way too big to fit the ears and keep falling out. They are also very uncomfortable, so you will probably need to get some covers for them to stop them scratching the ears or triggering ear wax. The sound quality is poor (update - after a month since this review was originally written, I have noticed you cannot hear a thing from these when you are out or travelling - they are in fact completely useless) yet gives out a lot of environmental noise pollution and since they barely hang on the ears so are not really in-ear phones the volume has to be kept high to be worth using, which is no good on buses, trains etc. as external noise is overpowering & it causes offence to other passengers. On the upside, the wires are somewhat easier to detangle - but other than that they are useless. I have since bought a new pair of earphones.