With its full-face screen and tiny 60 x 40mm case, the Lplayer is outwardly reminiscent of Cowon's D2+. Wisely, though, iRiver has eschewed the touchscreen: instead, you control the Lplayer by clicking the screen at the top, bottom or sides. It's an ingenious idea, and it sort of works.

Time flies. This player has been my gym companion for many years. I thought I lost it last week but it miraculously reappeared. During my time without it, I was desperately looking for a replacement. Ipod nano seemed good at first but it does not play flac/ogg files.

Ahead of its time and excel on functionality

No memory expansion

It may have a slow interface and tiny TFT, but you can't argue with the diminutive size

Sitting at a fairly low price point, iRiver's latest entry-level portable media player, the Lplayer, is a solid product. Looking similar to iRiver's line of Clix players, the Lplayer supports a wide variety of formats and has an impressive little LCD display, making it a strong competitor to the...

Great quality screen; slim; interesting control scheme; extras such as FM radio and voice recorder; lots of file formats supported

Controls can be unresponsive; track sorting not perfect

For the price it is absolutely good. The only problem I had was that the software was incompatible with Windows 7 which means you gotta run it in Compatible Mode (XP,ME,Vista,98)...

There aren't many products out there good enough to impress our esteemed editor Riyad. But when iRiver launched its first D-Click-based MP3 player back in 2007, he was bowled over.

The Lplayer from iriver will seem familiar to some people. At first glance, it looks like a smaller iriver Clix . The two players use the same D*click technology-the company's term for its innovative, practically button-free design.

Compact design; Good-looking graphics; Easy, push-screen navigation; FM radio and recording; Voice recording

Tiny screen; Some menu options can be difficult to find; Video conversion software can mess up aspect ratios

iRiver's Lplayer is a light player, bizarrely resembling a miniature television set. With only a sprinkling of buttons running along the sides, you could be fooled into thinking operation comes via the touch-sensitive 2-inch screen.

iRiver's Lplayer is an 8GB portable media player so small and cute you'll want to take it home and adopt it. And at 41g, it's no heavyweight, either.

Very good quality player with the interface and software being the only things brining it down. Sound quality is amazing once you get to the sound menu. EQ is great. Overall a good player with a clunky interface.

Very good sound quality completely blows away my ipod; Videos look very crisp and clean; Size is a plus, its very small but the screen is big enough to easily watch full movies on it no problem

The interface is the only thing bringing this down, having to press the sides of the screen isnt as fast or convenient as other players and can get very annoying sometimes; No Mac Compatibility, only windows, i dont know about linux.