Well, Amazon have decided to take pre-orders on Samsung and Creative Windows-based PMC's - without iRiver's offering.
Have been looking at the Samsung, which not only looks stunning, but is only £4 dearer than an iHP-140
. Having said that, it
is 20GB less space, and doesn't appear to have a recording feature, or support Ogg Vorbis, DivX or Xvid, let alone a remote or FM Radio ...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...s&n=172630
The currency conversion was done from this site;
http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi
And since I used the AmazonAmerica site, it looks virtually
guaranteed we will be paying a shedload extra than £270 here in the UK
On a (comforting) side note, the PiMP is available here in the UK now;
20GB :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...916586-3674031
40GB :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...916586-3674031