The Megastick includes a necklace lanyard that conceals a pair of ear bud-style speakers. Unfortunately, the speakers that it ships with are rather poor and don't match up to the Megastick's high noise-to-sound decibel rating. If you want to get the full sound the device is capable to putting out, you have to upgrade headphones, but then you still have the ones the device ships with stick inside the lanyard -- a good design idea poorly executed. Also, the cap covering the USB mount and the battery cover both tend to come off too easily -- a problem with many of these devices. These problems of construction quality were most prevalent in the Ennyah (
Other problems are more inherent to the devices than a result of poor design. If you're wanting to take several hours of music with you, a 128MB stick is only going to hold roughly two albums of music with a bit of space left over for holding a bit of other data. The 256MB models hold more, but if your primary desire is having a small MP3 player, it would be best to look at other types of devices or hold off for a while. The next generation of these devices promise memory space of 500MB and even 1GB. Of course, then they'll likely be as expensive as more common types of MP3 players.
One last word of warning regards the devices' data storage capabilities. Many of these devices ship with a CD that includes software which will allow your machine to recognize the device. Others, more smartly, are designed to be recognized by any machine in which you plug them into without software. If you're wanting to download a new album of music to share with a friend, their computer may not recognize your USB stick when you attach it to their computer. Mac users will also want to be sure to buy the no-software-necessary models.
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