What It Is: A portable media player that somehow manages to squeeze in a 3-inch, 16:9 touchscreen.

Who It’s For: Anyone who watches too much TV or loves to show people pictures of their kids.

Why It’s Worthy: With a slickly animated interface, a slim profile, and a black, white, or burgundy body color, this player is about as stylish as it gets without being made by Apple. In fact, it’s arguably more stylish. But it’s the features that impress the most, from the roomy widescreen’s crisp images to the built-in stereo Bluetooth that lets you use the P2, essentially, as a wireless handset up to thirty feet away from your phone (or pair it with a pair of wireless speakers or headphones). As with most non-Apple media players, the P2 is compatible with all the major PlaysForSure subscription and for-purchase music services (Napster, Rhapsody, and the like), as well as TV and movie sites like Amazon Unbox, Cinema Now, and Wal-Mart (no iTunes, of course). Oh, and it handles and displays pictures, too.

Our Only Complaint: It only works with Windows, for now, and so far the biggest size is 8 gigabytes. That said, we’re loving the form factor, and the mountain of accessories (cases, wireless speaker systems) already available for it, so we predict the P2 will be offered in a bigger-capacity version some time next year.

Cost: $250 (8GB), $179 (4GB), http://product.samsung.com/mp3/