SanDisk Sansa e130

[Chris Gohlke]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.livedigitally.com/?p=277' target='_blank'>http://www.livedigitally.com/?p=277</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Today, we’ll be looking at the latest entry from SanDisk, a leading memory card manufacturer. SanDisk’s last MP3 player was at one point the #1 selling non-Apple player, yet had only a single digit percentage of the market share. The new Sansa is currently available in both a 512 MB version as the e130, and a 1 GB version, sold as the e140. SanDisk’s Sansa is a far better than Apple’s iPod Shuffle, as a flash mp3 player. We’ll discover what distinguishes this player from its competitors, and why it should be on your shopping list."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/sansadisplay150.jpg" /><br /><br />This does look like a nice player, but I think that the author misses the point in comparing it to the shuffle. By my calculations, this unit is over 3x the size and 2x the weight of the shuffle. To me the main attractiveness of the shuffle is the size, so it is not really an apples to apples comparison in the first place.

[Kursplat]

I bought one of these several weeks ago. I was looking at buy Sandisk's previous model and bought this instead when I saw it.

The radio receiver works well. I love that it has 1GB internal AND SD support. No software is required to add songs to it (just plug it into your computer and drag your files to it in Windows Explorer). It would have been kind of nice to be able to record audio with it, but that's not a huge loss.

I wanted a light non-hard-drive-based player to hang around my neck while working in the yard, exercising, etc. My only real disappointment after receiving the unit is that there is no accomodation for a lanyard. I am going to have to rig something up myself using the plastic case that comes with it.

Other then that, I love it.