I love my rio. It's tough, sleek, pocket sized and easy to use. I recomend it to anyone looking to use it as just an mp3 player. If you were however considering using the mic for anything other than personal voice notes keep looking. I purchased my rio with the hope to record and play back lectures. Unfortunatly the mic is not anywhere near sensitive enough to be useful, so i'm passing my little rio on for something new.Creative Labs new Zen Vision :M is boasting a lecture quality mic as well as fm, 30gigs, movie quality olcd and an MS office linking organiser. Alot of reviewers are calling this thing the ipot killer and they might be right. I am so in love with these funky swiss army knife style gagets! If they can slap a phone on that thing, and get some internet access they might have a chance of taking down the crackberry too.