C|NET Reviews the SanDisk Sansa e250 MP3 Player

[Damion Chaplin]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://reviews.cnet.com/4505-6490_7-31644065.html?' target='_blank'>http://reviews.cnet.com/4505-6490_7-31644065.html?</a><br /><br /></div><i>"The SanDisk Sansa e200 series represents a departure from previous Sansa players, thanks to a higher-quality form factor and a bushel of cutting-edge features such as photo and video support, music-subscription compatibility, a user-removable battery, a MicroSD expansion slot, and a tactile Click Wheel-type controller system...While the e200 still doesn't match the iPod Nano in design flair and simplicity, it is definitely a premium choice when it comes to a compact flash-based MP3 player, with more features and a better price point than its main competitor. The e200 does have a few negative points, but its biggest hurdle will be convincing consumers that the 6GB version, just $20 less than bulkier 30GB players like the iPod and Zen Vision:M, is still a good value."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/Sansae250.jpg" /> <br /><br />Yet another iPod Nano clone reviewed, this one by SanDisk. It looks like a very nice player, and it comes in a 6GB version, which makes it currently the highest-capacity flash-based player in the world. I dig the user-removable battery and the MicroSD slot, although personally I'm waiting for the flash-based capacities to get up there and rival HD-based players before I seriously consider one. I'm also thinking that anyone who's interested in a flash-based player already bought a Nano. Would you agree, or have you been waiting for just the right NAND player to show up?

[jlp]

"The SanDisk Sansa e200 series represents a departure from previous Sansa players, thanks to a higher-quality form factor and a bushel of cutting-edge features such as photo and video support, music-subscription compatibility, a user-removable battery, a MicroSD expansion slot, and a tactile Click Wheel-type controller system...While the e200 still doesn't match the iPod Nano in design flair and simplicity, it is definitely a premium choice when it comes to a compact flash-based MP3 player, with more features and a better price point than its main competitor. The e200 does have a few negative points, but its biggest hurdle will be convincing consumers that the 6GB version, just $20 less than bulkier 30GB players like the iPod and Zen Vision:M, is still a good value."


... I dig the user-removable battery and the MiniSD slot, ...

It's NOT a miniSD substandard slot this thing uses but a microSD SUB-SUB STANDARD (in EVERY sense of the words) slot.

Hey SanDisk, how bad you should feel to use* the WORST STORAGE SUBTECHNOLOGY EVER INVENTED IN THE WHOLE WORLD in this nice player???

You should be ashamed of yourself!!!

Correct it at once and put a standard SD card slot that offers up to 800% more capacity (4 GB vs. 0.5 GB) and you get me interested.

IF offered at a decent price too...


*=and you even had the shameful idea to have invented this sub-standard technology, if memory serves right!!

[jeffd]

jlp, and where do you suppose they stick that sd slot? I'm sure if they did that then the player would grow to as big as the HD players. I think its a nice attempt at offering some type of storage upgrade, but yea what is the biggest micro sd card..512 megs? not really worth it now.

damion, what is it you have against the HD based players thats keeping you from picking one of them? These days, it certainly isn't size anymore. The difference in thickness is so little, it changes nothing.

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

This is nearly perfect. Folder navigation and maybe a bigger SD slot is all it needs. Even then it's still very compelling. Having a mechanical scroll wheel is a big big plus for me.

[Damion Chaplin]

It's NOT a miniSD substandard slot this thing uses but a microSD SUB-SUB STANDARD (in EVERY sense of the words) slot.

D-oh! Boy, sure missed that, eh? :oops:
I guess I'm just not used to anything with MicroSD in it... Anyway, fixed.