Cheap portable MP3 players (iPods NNA)

[Rywill]

I'm planning on picking up a portable MP3 player. I don't need anything fancy--I mostly want it so I can have music in my motorcycle helmet for long trips. Biggest priorities are memory and a price point under $150. I have a 128MB SD card already for my Dell Axim, so something that could take advantage of that would be awesome. (I know I can use the Axim itself as an MP3 player, and I do that on the train, but I'm worried about somehow dropping it halfway to Vegas if I try to use it on the bike. Plus, it only has 196MB that has to be shared bewteen everything.)

My tentative front-runner is the iRock 530, which has 128MB (expandable to 256 with my SD card) and is only $130. Anyone have this player? Anyone have suggestions for something I should get instead? Reviews say the 530 is lame because it uses USB 1.0 and has a cheap feel and no backlight, but those don't seem that important to me. Am I nuts?

Thanks for any opinions.

[XPav]

So you're a motorcycle riding lawyer? Do you ride from little town to little town representing the represent-less from evil land developers wanting to take the family farm away from the young and nubile widow? Sounds like a TV series.

But anyway, I wouldn't really care about the player's USB connection myself, because most of the ones with removable media dont't care how you get the MP3s on it. Put the SD itself into a USB 2.0 writer and copy that way, leave the player taped to your helmet or something.

[DrCrypt]

Rywill, you might want to wait until the Dell DJ's price is announced... it is basically an ipod from Dell, reportedly at Axim-level prices. It won't be under 150 bucks, most likely, but it would have to be released somehwere between 200-300 for it to significantly undercut Apple prices.

[Lunch of Kong]

What does NNA stand for?

[Poops McGee]

Need not apply, I'd imagine.

[Rywill]

Yeah, it stands for "need not apply."