With Apples domination of the mp3 player market it has sometimes been difficult for other companies to make their mark in the industry. Although pretty unknown in the west SmartQ, have managed to carve out a niche for themselves in the Chinese market, offering a product that far exceeds the quality of many other domestic m3/4 player manufacturers. While you may not get the flawless slim profile and drool worthy aesthetics of an Ipod the SmartQ T5 II still has a few tricks of it's own up it's sleeve. As well as offering the standard video, audio, photo, record and ebook functions the player also supports a list of file formats as long as your arm. MP3, OGG, WMA, FLAC, APE, AAC, WAV, CUE, AVI (XVID/DivX), RM/RMVB, MPEG, MP4, FLV, JPEG, GIF and TXT just to name a few. Note that FLV support also means that you can play downloaded Youtube videos without conversion.