When the first monochrome, single gigabyte music players first hit the market in the late 1990′s, they flew off the shelves but, after some time, people began to make larger, hard drive players  that held a lot more music and were about the size of a deck of cards. Examples of these players are the ipod classic and the Creative Zen players. The next generation were the mid-capacity flash memory players that were much smaller in size and held a decent amount of music.

However, these devices have run their course and are outdated, some more than others. In my opinion the future devices, will be more than just a media player, it will also work as a PDA, email device, have a web browser and can surf over WiFi finally, it will work as game device. These devices will also have a sleek design and will be easy to carry in any sized pocket. This allows users to combind the functions of a PDA, MP3 player, portable game device all in one sleek and thin package.  The device is a combination of enjoyment and productivity, although games tend to make the device less produdctive and more of a distraction.

As of right now, there is really only one device like this, and that is Apple’s Ipod Touch. The other older device especially those with less than a 8 Gigbyte capacity will definitly fast out. Also, large devices like the iPod Classic and Creative Zen will fade away because of their size and they only do a few things. These new ultimate devices will very likley use flash memory and currently flash memory can not hold as much as hard drives but, the caacity of flash devices are growing and the will reach the hard drive level soon.