It seemed like they'd never arrive. For those of you who have been waiting for the
Pine USA "SM-200C" D'Music player
http://www.pineusa.com/d'music/sm200c_features.htm
patiently, you might be interested to know that GENICA has already released a portable mp3 player that reads from CD, CD-R and CD-RW. This means no more 300 dollar little flash memory type portable players that only have an absurd 64MB of memory. At a confusingly light $99 a piece, they are hard to beat in the price department. Though the device is still apparently pretty plain-Jane, the second edition of it will have more features. Check it out at:
http://www.genica.com/MP3-CD.htm