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After Apple announced it is discontinuing the iPod touch (7th generation) yesterday and retiring the iPod altogether, consumers have been rushing to retailers in-store and online to buy one of these devices. The product is only being sold at retailers while supplies last.

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We have tested and rounded up the best iPod alternatives across a range of prices from the two leading makers of such devices, Astell & Kern and Cowon. Budget accordingly for a decent pair of headphones, and you'll have a formidable on-the-fly system.

We are always impartial and do our best to make sure we're hearing every product at its very best, so we'll try plenty of different types of music and give each plenty of listening time (and time to run in). It's not just about sound quality, of course. If a product has noteworthy features (enviable battery life, removable DAC modules, full MQA decoding) we'll ensure that a big part of our testing involves testing the claims made by its makers.

A salesperson we spoke with at the Burlingame Avenue store said that the Classic has gone into "end-of-life production," which means that it's been discontinued, and there aren't any left in stock because they've been "removed." He also said that "Apple likes to keep the best and brightest products out there" and the company removes products that it discontinues from stores.

With a CD, music is stored with a resolution of 1,411 kilobits per second. With the best possible quality MP3, the resolution is 320 kilobits per second. So clearly there's a lot less data in even the highest quality MP3 file.

As the name suggests, Lossless Audio doesn't sacrifice any of the musical information: the successors to the WAV format used in CDs, which is also lossless, use more advanced technology to take the audio information and make the file smaller without compromising on quality. There are several versions of Lossless Audio including Apple Lossless, FLAC and WMA Lossless, and as you'll see from our guide above you'll often find that the best MP3 players support at least some of those formats.

For many people, streaming music sounds good enough. But not everybody thinks good enough is good enough, especially if you've invested in some of the best headphones: high quality headphones often expose the flaws in streaming music, and in poorly recorded music too.

Apple took us all by surprise when it announced the iPod touch 7 in 2019, the first upgrade to its portable music and video player since 2015. And Apple surprised us again when it discontinued it in 2022.

The interface is easy to control. Tap through options using the touchscreen, and select the music you want to listen to. It could be more responsive, but you get used to it. Battery life is around nine hours, which isn't amazing, but not terrible either.

So how do you select one? Well, you're in luck. Because the market is increasingly geared towards the audiophile (the kind of people who won't touch Spotify's lossy streams), firms are constantly innovating. These days, ever improved sound quality, hi-res audio support and seriously impressive built-in DACs (Digital-to-Analogue Converters) are making already impressive players even better.

We make sure to test each product against its chief competitors too, so you can be sure that if we say so, the product is the best bet for the money. We live with these players for well over a week and run them in religiously so that the components have 'bedded in' before we commence our tests, and we don't finalize our testing until we are certain of the sound quality.

After more years in this game than we'd care to admit, we are truly confident that our star-rated reviews are the best indication of the quality of the hi-res MP3 players in this list. There are no sales teams involved in our verdicts, which means if we don't like it for sound, design, usability and features, we simply won't recommend it here.

Apple Watches are nearly always on sale, but Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales tend to offer the best pricing for them. We still like the Series 7, and it should be deeply discounted this shopping season, but we also recommend the new (and newly discounted) Series 8 and SE models for anyone seeking the most recent tech. We are even seeing small price drops on the sought-after Ultra.

Other things to know: Still in testing, but likely to be our new top pick. Not a huge jump in specs, so best if upgrading from older watch (Series 4 and earlier) or first time Apple Watch user. 45 mm screen, with Sport Band in the S/M or M/L size.

What we like: Top pick for the best wireless Bluetooth earbuds. Small and lightweight. Case comes with wireless charging. Decent active noise cancellation. 10-hour battery life. Dual device connectivity.

What we like: Upcoming pick for best in-ear noise-cancelling headphones. Best noise cancellation of any earbuds we tested. Bluetooth 5.3 capability. Effectively reduces a wide range of frequencies. ANC and hear-through mode customizable in app. Comfortable stabilizing wings. Solid touch-based controls.

Update: On May 10, eight days after this article was published, Apple announced the end of the iPod era. The iPod touch, the last of the legendary product line, was now discontinued. If you want to get one, they will be available from Apple while stocks last, and from plenty of other retailers.

That update did more than just increment the processor, which moved from 2 cores to 4 cores and nearly doubled the clock speed. It increased the RAM from 1 GB to 2 GB; it includes a better graphics chip; and it has four cores instead of two. It also ensured that the device runs with more recent versions of iOS. The 6th generation iPod touch is limited to iOS 12; the 7th generation runs the current iOS 15.

Starting at $199, it is the cheapest iOS device. It comes with 32 GB storage, and you can increase it to 128 GB ($299) or 256 GB ($399). For comparison, the low-end iPhone SE (2nd generation) costs $429 with 64GB and the 256 GB model costs $579. So if you want a portable device with a lot of storage, the iPod touch is the cheapest.

When deciding between the iPad Air or iPad Pro, there are additional details to consider, like Face ID versus Touch ID, storage options, cameras, and USB-C data transfer speed. Whatever you choose, it's worth noting that both come recommended as the best iPads you can buy. Let's dive in.

External storage devices are another option to add space to an iPad Air or iPad Pro, but they're not ideal for casual, everyday usage. Rather, they're best used for projects. Both models differ in transfer speeds via their USB-C ports, with the iPad Air peaking at 10Gb/s (USB Gen 3.1 Gen 2), and the iPad Pros can muster up to 40Gb/s (Thunderbolt 3/USB 4).

iPod touch features a 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display and 8 GB, 16 GB, or 32 GB flash drive. You can browse the web with Safari and watch YouTube videos on the first-ever Wi-Fi iPod. You can also search, preview, and buy songs from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store on iPod touch.

Newer iPod models like iPod (Click Wheel) and iPod mini also have a dock connector, but the iPod (Dock Connector) has a touch wheel instead of a Click Wheel and the four control buttons are above the touch wheel. iPod (Dock Connector) models are referred to as third-generation iPod models.

All iPod (Touch Wheel) models have a FireWire port cover. Scroll wheel models don't, and dock connector models don't have a FireWire port. The iPod (Touch Wheel) model controls look similar to the iPod (Scroll Wheel) but the touch wheel itself doesn't turn. iPod (Touch Wheel) models are considered second-generation iPod models. 041b061a72