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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Steve Jobs made no mention of it in his keynote last night, but Apple has quietly updated the iPod shuffle, adding new colours to the dinky MP3 player.

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Screen? Check! Double the capacity? Check! Simple USB connector? Check! Looks like Creative’s got the iPod shuffle beaten with its new MuVo.

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