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Cowon iAudio 6The tiny iAudio 6 plays and records plenty of media types, but the funky controls and miniature screen limit its appeal.
The Cowon iAudio 6 stores your media on its 4GB hard drive, which uses a new miniature disk that's only 0.85-inch in diameter. This reduces the size of the player and makes it more resistant to shocks than units that use larger drives. The player is just 3 inches long by 1.4 inches wide, but a chunky 0.8 inches thick, and it weighs 2.1 ounces. At $230 (as of 7/21/06), you're paying more than you'd pay for most other 4GB players based on 1-inch drives or flash memory, and roughly what you'd pay for Apple's iPod Nano.
The iAudio 6's black-and-gray styling looks neat enough, but you have to hold the player horizontally to get a good view of the postage stamp-size screen....