SanDisk Corporation introduced today its SanDisk Sansa e200 MP3 player with a large color screen and 6GB of storage capacity for listening to music or viewing photos and personal videos. The company also introduced the Sansa c100, a value-conscious MP3 player with a color screen and compact size. Both families were unveiled at a press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show where SanDisk is demonstrating products in Booth #30329, South Hall Level 3, Las Vegas Convention Center.
The Sansa e200 series features a slim new design and a 1.8-inch (4.572 cm) TFT color screen (QCIF+) along with high-quality audio, photo viewing and video playback capabilities. It offers an industry-leading, 6GB capacity ($299) that holds more than 1,400 MP3 songs (4 mins. per song, 128kbps MP3, 64kbps WMA). It is also available in 2GB ($199) and 4GB ($249) models.
SanDisk took pains to note that the players’ back cover is made with a Titanium alloy from Liquidmetal Technologies that is “stronger than steel and highly resistant to scratches and wear.” It includes a rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery which can be replaced by the customer to ensure the player provides many years of continuous service. Dimensions of the Sansa e200 are 1.7 in. wide x 3.5 in. long x 0.5 in. high (4.4 cm wide x 8.9 cm long x 1.3 cm high).
For instant access to millions of digital songs, the Sansa e200 series players will support Microsoft PlaysForSure so consumers can download and pay for songs individually or download an unlimited amount of music for a flat monthly subscription fee from music stores such as Rhapsody To Go and others.
The Sansa e200 series features include:
• Icon-based menu for easy navigation
• Slideshow function to conveniently view photos and play music simultaneously
• FM tuner with on-the-fly recording to save your favorite songs or programs
• microSD expansion slot for additional memory capacity and support for SanDisk TrustedFlash and gruvi content cards that can be shared with mobile phones
• Universal accessory connector for the easy addition of future accessories.
Note: Sandisk has about 29 percent of the worldwide flash player market, while Apple has about 49 percent, according to NPD Group.
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Looks good.
Doesn’t work with my iTunes Store songs and TV shows? No sale. I’ll keep my iPod, thanks. Don’t need an iPod clone.
Yeah… it does look pretty good. I like the large screen especially.
Yeah… it does look pretty good. I like the large screen especially.
Yeah… it does look pretty good. I like the large screen especially.
Yeah… it does look pretty good. I like the large screen especially.
clunk
The Clones are missing the point: everyone wants iTunes to work with their player. Period.
Jim Rome
Competetion will get stiffer. Pretty sexy lil’ beast, but still doesn’t have the iTunes combo…
An easy to replace battery and a scratch resistant back for the iPod sure would be nice. The idea that you’re supposed to send your iPod away just to get a new battery is ridiculous.
Rechargeable and replaceable battery. Apple, are you listening?
it’s about twice the size of a nano (volume), since it’s almost twice as thick.
the back sounds cool, I never liked the back of the ipods
Well, they got the design down.
Without the integration software (i.e. iTunes) – forget it.
But – who knows, some people love to be abused.
MW – basic – Basic knowledge
It would be really cool if Apple were to make their new laptops out of liquidmetal.
http://www.liquidmetal.com/
Well it’s good to see th’ iPod has some competition hardware-wise. Apple has about mastered the software integration, we might finally see some battery replaceable, scratch resistant iPods in the future.
PlaysForSure.. whatever. Beyond the fact that I doubt it will, it just amazes me the lack of MS’s ability to come up with a decent name for ANY product they have. PlaysForSure..wtf? Did they hire a bunch of third graders to come up with that one.?
This one is definitely very cool. If it was compatible with iTunes, with the iTMS, the soon to be launched the iMS (The iMovie Store) AND Apple iPod marketing team, it would definitely be an iPod killer.
I suspect it won;t make us replace our nanos anytime soon… but I have to say it… it looks cool, very cool.
Apple should implement some of its features in all iPod lines.
It looks like the competition are finally trying to compete with Apple on quality, and also by answering concerns over the criticisms of the iPod (scratches and battery).
However, you could also argue that the screen is smaller and the storage less for the same money as a 30Gb iPod. So again, I can’t really see this is a great worry. And of course it is incompatible with the iTMS.
Tim Coughlin
http://timcoughlin.typepad.com
Apple better start think about licensing or it may start to lose market share. They’re not invulnerable despite the rhetoric of MDN. This is a nice looking unit and I’d buy it – itunes or no.
I’d rather rip and download than pay for 128 kb song anyways.
replaceable battery and scratch-resistant back. I can’t wait for Apple to think of that!
Competition is good for everyone. Hopefully this will be a worthy competitor and will force Apple to continue to innovate.
I got to say, I wish my nano’s screen was that size, and it had 6GB of storage, and played video files. And it does look cool. But obviously it doesnt have the combo of itunes and ipod, but that doesnt mean it sucks.
Oh boy, a scratch-resistant back, I think I’m gonna cum. Who f__king cares about the back.
“The Clones are missing the point: everyone wants iTunes to work with their player. Period.”
I don’t think anyone is missing the point. Everyone realizes that iTunes is the way to go. I am pretty sure no one is going to dispute that.
But what would you like “the Clones” to do? In case you haven’t been paying attention, Apple is the one who is not letting anyone play in their sandbox. Period.
Microsoft is.
Given the choice I think plenty of hardware manufacturers would pair up with iTunes. But there is no choice. That is the point.
Overall I have a long history of disliking Sandisks products, but if you can’t admit that they put together a pretty nice player here then there is nothing I can tell you.
I happen to think it is a pretty nice offering, especially considering what else is out there.
If the monkeys in charge of Sandisked opted to go with “Plays Like Crap” and MS, over Apple and iTunes then you can knock them for it.
But they don’t have that choice, and in the real world that doesn’t mean everyone is going to pack up and go home, even if you think they should. They are going to dance with the devil instead.
Apple can change all that, but they choose not to. That is fine with me of course, but I can’t fault a company for something that is out of their control.
Oh, wait, it doesn’t have Apple style, thinness, ease of use or integration.
But hey, radio! Welcome to 1910.