Panasonic E-Wear SD SV-SD85 (128 MB) MP3 Player

Pros: Small, excellent sound, SD card flexibility, cheap replacement batteries
Cons: Expensive++, Poor software, easy to lose

Not cheap but amazing sound. Software poor but functional.
Capable of playing 1 + 2GB SD cards! Extra batteries available at low price. Enjoyed this player for over one year and would fully recommend if it was less expensive.

Pros: sound good look good
Cons: very very crap software

I have this unit for a week now. I think the look, size and sound of this device is excellent I think it sound even better than my Creative Jukebox 3. Shame the software come with it the SD Jukebox is so crap that you want to throw it in a bin.
The CD content never update with the cdb data base once you have changed to another cd. It is getting pretty frustrated when you have to convert load of songs. I have been looking around but still can't find any alternative to work with the SD85 but what the hell it is a create player

Pros: - Small - Cool - Sound quality
Cons: - Take time to check out songs to SD card. - No backlight - Pricey

I got it 2 days ago, I'm happy with it so far. Looks cool. Sound is good, not that bad like some people suggested me to go for Creative mp3 player for better sound quality. I use AAC 64 and the music sounds alright to me even I use the earphones supplied by panasonic which hurt my ears a bit though. Size is small. I was too scared to touch/hold it when I first saw it. I was afraid I would break it!! After a while, I think it's just the right size. No need for a remote like minidisc player, I think. It's small enough, why you would want to add more thing to make it bulky?

Pros: Smallest mp3 player with SD card support
Cons: SD Jukebox, no direct USB

I reviewed this unit in the store. It's pretty small and looks very nice. Everything looks good until I tried to insert my SD card with music and try to listen it. Player won't play mp3 files from my SD card. I installed SD Jukebox and save music to card with it. Now player found music and play it well.
When I checked files on SD card I found that SD Jukebox converted mp3 files to some proprietary format. So you can't just copy mp3 files from your PC to card and play it on player. You need to use SD Jukebox ALWAYS!
Note, that SD Jukebox works only under Windows, so if you are Linux or Mac user, this player is not for you.
Also, you can't use USB to connect player to your PC directly. You need to remove card and insert into SD-USB adapter (it's included but very big compared to third-party SD adapter).

Pros: Price, Durability, Battery Life, Sound quality. Did I say, Price?
Cons: Cludgey SD-card interface, Cannot copy MP3s directly (must run via loading software)

Compared to the iPod, this player does just as well in sound performance, battery life, and music time. In fact, because it uses SD cards, I believe it is better. However, one 128MB card will hold a little more than one typical Audio CDROM. Not being able to use inboard SD card readers is a pain, but the supplied reader works fine. Not being able to copy MP3s is just stupid. To the good, Panasonic is supporting it with software upgrades.

And I agree, it is a pain to be required to use the cludgey, clearly made-by-a-nonEnglish-speaking Japanese program. However, the device is very tolerant to beatings (the only thing I'm not rough on are my girlfriends - LOL!), and runs for about a week of workouts before I need to recharge it.

Bottomline: the thing does what it is supposed to do: Play my CDROM music while I'm running or biking. Compared to the hideous cost of an iPod, this is a very reasonable alternative. I'm very glad I purchased it.

Pros: Light
Cons: Software stinks, pricey

The unit comes with SD-Jukebox. Its a piece of crap.
It comes with a version that doesnt even support
the SD card on many machines. It requires a patch but the
patch often does not work as supplied version is too downlevel even for the patch.