Sansa Player - what is it?

By Anne Ahira

The Good

Lets you play music in a recent manner; gives you the option of using memory cards

The Bad

No video support; limited number of albums accessible; poor battery life

The Bottom Line

If you're interested in paying money for a sansa player, you're better off picking one of their more traditional MP3 players, such as The View or the Fuze.

Review

Most individuals are eager by current technology and desire to rush out to pay money for the recent gadget. Beginning the laser disc player to the Sony MiniDisk, some technologies have gone the way of the dodo. At present a new Sansa player has gone into the market and only time (and an absolute review) will find out whether it will become the VCR or the Betamax player of the digital music time. The brand-new Sansa player is identified as the slotMusic player. At simply $20, it seems like a fantastic deal.

Where does the music come from? Well, the Sansa player gives you two options. First, you can choose to purchase a microSD card and transfer MP3 or WMA files from your computer onto the card. Then insert the card into the Sansa player, and you can listen to music. Of course, purchasing these cards will increase your price. A 4 GB card costs around $10 while a 16 GB card will run you more than $50.

A unique feature of the Sansa player is that you can also get your music a different way: purchasing full albums on slotMusic cards. The cards can be played in the Sansa player or in most other devices that accept microSD cards.

On the bright side, this technique does permit you to listen to moveable music though you don't have a notebook. Of course, so do CD's if you have a correct CD player.

Other issues include the battery life. The Sansa player uses actually replaceable batteries instead of built-in rechargeable ones. And since you're only expected to get 15 hours of music listening out of the batteries, real music lovers could end up spending a fortune on batteries alone. Plus, there's no video support and no screen. - 18299

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