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The iAudio G3 gets 40-50 hours on a single AA battery. It also has an FM radio and plays a wide variety of file formats. They also make the iAudio 4 and 5 models, which run on a single AAA battery.
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Yes, but it's never been terribly common because a majority of consumers want small devices, and if the player has built in rechargeable batteries, they will be a series of rectangular cells which are not standard sizes by any stretch of the imagination, because they can be built to fit a particular system, leaving JUST BARELY enough room for everything else inside, thus allowing a smaller device, and since the batteries will be specially shaped to fill as much empty space as possible, there is therefore more battery life. The more features a player has, the more likely it is to have built in rechargeable batteries Nontheless, if you do want one that takes AAA batteries, there are many options. When looking for one, keep in mind that they aren't generally very advanced, most of them not even having color screens. the majority of these players moonlight on the side of doubling as a jump drive, with a "USB arm" sticking out of it-but some rechargeable players have these too! Don't immediatly assume, however, that a player takes AAA batteries just because it fits the form factor! LOOK AT THE BACK OF THE BOX! If it takes AAA batteries it WILL say so on the box! On the other hand, if the player doesn't have anything battery related whatsoever on the box, most likely it has rechargeable batteries. Just keep in mind that when you find one, chances are good it'll be a brand name you've never heard of. That doesn't automatically mean it's a bad player, but the navigation probably won't be anything like using an Apple or Sony MP3 player. If you swear by Ipods, however, you CAN get EXTERNAL battery packs that take AA or AAA batteries-but your ipod will look dorky with that thing on the back, so if that will bother you, you may want to suck it up and just buy an MP3 player that already accepts AAA batteries without any extra accessories!
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