What’s this? Cowon has done the impossible and combined high capacity flash memory into one astoundingly affordable media player. Spendthrifts, meet the Cowon O2.

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Steve Jobs proudly showed off his new babies in the iPod family on Tuesday, and unlike with Brad and Angelina’s twins, the cooing and excitement was justified - the new nano and touch actually do stuff.

But what if the new iPods hadn’t been launched? What would you be left to upgrade to? And what would you do if iPods didn’t even exist at all? Not to worry: there’ still plenty of top-end songbox rivals out there, many of which even outperform Apple’s holy products, and we’ve rounded them up on the other side of the jump.

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Few PMPs look as classy as this: Cowon’s N3 comes clad in a woody shell that’s slicker than your average plastic player. As you’d expect, the dinky player chews up music, video and photos a treat, as well as packing GPS and a large 7 inch screen. Now for the bad news: it’s only available in Korea. With looks this good though, we’re seriously considering a spot of importing.
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