First look at X-Clef's HD-800 20GB MP3 player

You might remember a hefty little MP3 player we mentioned last month from X-Clef called the
HD-500, which happened to be one of the very first players to sport an 80GB hard drive. Well now DAPreview has the inside scoop the HD-800, X-Clef's rather hamfisted attempt to create a more slender 20GB player that could take on the iPod. We'll admit that the aging hipster in us likes the side placement of HD-800's buttons, which give it sort of an early Eighties Walkman feel, but otherwise it just likes kinda cheap. If you can get past the clunky design, the HD-800 has all the usual extra features, like support for WMA in addition to MP3, a built-in voice recorder, an FM tuner, and line-in recording, but the one nice thing about it is that you can load it up with music without having to use some lame software program — all you have to do is drag and drop and you're good to go.