By the way Rob... I'm available to beta test any equipment!!

ROFL. Me too! Hey! I can test overseas! I'm going to Vietnam for two weeks!

I dunno tho, regarding someone's comment about the original not being released in the UK yet.. *IF* they are planning for a Spring announcement, I'm placing money that you won't see the 'original' Karma in the UK.

I'm rather.. impressed that they will add a SD slot. That just about sums up the downside for the Karma to me - Now I just hope they use standard filesystemming, and not custom crap like the old, *FIRST*, ORIGINAL PMP300. (Still have mine! Still use it occasionally! Just with the card was standard formatting. Make it much easier for me to swish music around!)

Me.

[Edit: Color LCD, SD slot.. Those will cost, however. Personally, if I had to choose, I would choose an all-flash memory (like those Flash IDE drives pointed out somewhere on the board here..) than those two features combined. I mean, I want to listen to portable music while I'm running, hiking, hunting, etc. I'm not going to look at the display that often..]