The Lexar MP3 player range has attracted a lot of press lately - the company has developed a new range of portable players to add to their portfolio that put users back in charge of their memory usage by offering unlimited music, data and picture storage capabilities via the additional use of SD memory cards and flash drives into base units.
Lexar are a real market leader in the manufacture of advanced digital media and accessories. They are probably best known for their flash memory cards, USB flash drive ranges, card readers and other related products targeted at digital markets. Their move into the MP3 player market has gone so well because they have utilized their existing expertise and wrapped it into a new kind of MP3 solution. Buy an SD/flash drive compatible player from Lexar and you can control its memory size yourself in an extremely cost effective way.
Lexar products are designed to allow you to make your MP3 player work for you in the best possible way without hitting your pocket too heavily as you really are in control of the price you pay. The whole point of this product set is that you can download music on to whole libraries of storage cards/drives that you can just plug into your player whenever you like.
The company currently offers the following products:
- Digital Music Players - these include the LDP-200, the LDP-400 and the LDP-600. Base storage capacity here ranges from no initial memory through to 1GB.
- JumpGear MP3 - Base storage capacity here ranges from players with no drives as part of the package through to 128MB.
- JumpDrive Music - Base storage capacity here ranges from 128MB to 256MB.
Although no future developments have been announced at the moment it is likely that Lexar will continue to develop feature rich products that offer affordable solutions to consumers into the future.