They're at it again! Or aren't they..? Well - yes and no. LuxPro lived through its 15 minutes of fame during the March 2005 CeBIT exposition. The so-called "Super-shuffle" was introduced back then, some claimed that thing couldn't be real... but it was, and after some slight modifications, the Super Tangent made it to the market. After that, the EZ & Top Tangents saw they light of day (shufflers equiped with screens and all!) but ehm... apparently, those few samples that made it to outside of Taiwan are deemed to become "collector's items"... seeing as how these products have disappeared from luxPro's website and all. But do not fear! The replacement killer is already here. It's called Top Square (or MX-602/605/610 H/F, pictured left) and EZ Square (MX-702/705/710 H/F, middle) respectively and indeed... they're nothing but Top & EZ Tangents with modified controllers. Like, square ones instead of the (already modified) shuffle-look-a-likes.

Playback time per battery charge is kind of disappointing by now - a mere 8 hours. Ah well, at least we'll always have the FM tuner, voice recorder and whatnot to fall back on. If the "Squares" ever make it to anywhere, of course. Those lawsuits, such a happy bunch they are. They've kept LuxPro quite busy, one would have to assume.

Also notice the company's attempt to come up with an original player, the Mini Square (pictured right). It's a whole series of players, of course accompanied by an incredible array of blah-like numbers and figures... so here we go:

The MX-800H & F come with an SD/MMC expansion slot. Basic memory capacity is 128MB (does that still exist?) and there's the 128 x 128 pixel OLED to perk things up a bit. Like the 800, the 802/805/810F/H measures 90 x 38 x 9.8mm while weighing 38 gram. Difference being, the latter series aren't memory-expandable (capacities range from 256MB up to 1GB, via 512MB). Casing is aluminium, supported file formats include MP3,WMA, WMA-DRM and WAV (ADPCM).

The Mini Square also has a built-in FM tuner + recorder, as well as a voice recorder... but ehm...really, it's big and doesn't offer an awful lot of features altogether. Pass.