Today we introduce a new style MP3 players-BeoSound 6, Bang & Olufsen's mp3 player.It is a kind of best MP3 players.

BeoSound 6, Bang & Olufsen's new flash mp3 player launching just in time for the holiday season, will be showcased as well. BeoSound features a stylish design and superior CD sound quality. It allows 40 hours of playback -- double the market battery life standard -- and can hold up to 1000 songs. It functions on any PC or MAC based operating system.

What disappoints me most about B&O's lastest digital audio portable MP3 player is that from the initial specs it looks like something I would have expected them to release in 2004. For $625 - or slightly above the price of a 4GB iPhone MP3 player - I expect the Bang and Olufsen BeoSound 6 to be the first 16GB flash unit to hit the market. Instead, we get a simple 4GB unit MP3 player that Beoworld.org thinks is a rebranded Samsung YP-Z5, an iPod nano competitor that sells right now on Amazon for $159.

Now B&O has always been about style, but even here the unit falls flat. It's not unattractive, just common. At least the company's first portable, the BeoSound 2, had a unique shape to it. The BeoSound 2 is still available from B&O and while that 128MB portable MP3 player is woefully outdated by today's standards, when it was introduced in 2001 (yes, that's how old it is) it was at least on the high end of digital portable flash capacity.

In terms of simplicity, the BeoSound 6 is similar to the iPod nano. No FM tuner or line-in record. No Wi-Fi. No touch-screen interface. Just a straight audio player with a 1.8" 64K LCD display in a 3.5" x 1.7" x 0.5" shell.

But $625? We know B&O extracts a premium, but they can do better than this.