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Portable MP3 players are all the craze these days. It is rare to find somebody that either owns one or knows somebody that owns one. They come in many flavors from players that have built in memory to players with hard drives. Many have very portability factors and some don’t. They also have lots of different price ranges which I will also cover. I’m going to go over what you should look for when trying to purchase a cheap portable MP3 player.

Should you pick a cheap portable mp3 player with memory built in or a hard drive? Well that really depends on you. Most memory based mp3 players only have a limited amount around 1GB or less. Which in terms of the amount of songs you can fit on it will range from 200 to 250. If that amount of songs is good with you then I would recommend that you go for it because you will find the cheapest portable mp3 players in this model range. But what if you have more songs than that?

If you have more songs than that you could always get a player that has the hard drive built in. Most of these allow 500 songs and more and also allow you to use them for personal data storage devices so you can take you data from one computer to another.

Want portability? To get the mp3 player with the most portability really depends on your needs more than anything else. If you want to use the player to run with then I would pick a memory based player because most of them are very small and compact and allow you to clip them to your clothing.

If you can actually take the mp3 player with you and put it in your pocket then you should get the hard drive based model. This allows you to get a lot more storage for you songs and most are pretty slim so they don’t take up much room. Make sure you look for a used one on eBay because you can find them at highly discounted rates.

Keep in mind when you are looking for the cheapest portable mp3 player is going to have to be the weight. If you have some big 4 pound player hanging off the side of you pants you will literally run out of you pants.

And last but not least I would look at the dimensions of the player. If you are running you don’t want some big 7×5 players that will make you look like you didn’t have you v8 today. Just make sure that you check the size of the player before purchasing because it is sometimes though to figure out how big a player is just from a picture. You could go into retail store and pick out the size that is best for you then go to my site and find the exact one you want at a highly discounted rate.

In closing to find the cheapest portable mp3 player available is up to you because of all the different options that are available today. If you want a small very cheap mp3 player I would go with a memory based player such as the iPod nano. If you are looking for a hard drive based player then the IPOD touch or Microsoft Zune are very good options and have tons of space for that music collection of yours.