Sep
15
Briefly: SanDisk Sansa e130 review, ROKR E1 FAQ, PortalPlayer happy news, Micro players chart, 6GB Zen Neeon available, iPod’s law
- Sandisk Sansa e130 MP3 Player Reviewed (86/100 rating; goes for $80 on Amazon, seems to be a sweet little player)
- Motorola ROKR E1 questions answered (and you can’t sync iTunes via Bluetooth, unlike what Motorola rep, Carsten Schmidt, claimed in an interview)
- PortalPlayer: Striking a Chord (they got the iPod nano deal, and they’re also luring other audio manufacturers; “analysts [...] predict that the company can grow earnings more than 25% annually over the next five years”) [via]
- Nano a Nano: iPod nano versus other micro players (skip to the table at the end)
- 6GB Creative Zen Neeon available (FM radio, voice recording; 128×64 LED with 7 backlight colors; available in the last week of September for $225)
- iPod’s Law: The Impossible Is Possible (David Pogue’s obligatory nano tribute) [via]
Before leaving the site, have a look at our most popular entries:
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- Apple Lossless offerings from the iTMS not likely—for now (June 28, 2006)
- Review: Datasafe oomi (June 7, 2006)
- HOWTO: Move your iTunes music while preserving library data (May 11, 2006)
- Batteries 101 (May 8, 2006)
- Presentation: iPod Hi-Fi, plus a few thoughts (March 2, 2006)
- Presentation/Review: Creative Zen Vision:M (December 9, 2005)
- Review: Alegria Audio Ling bookshelf speaker system (November 9, 2005)
- HOWTO: Put together a $3K audiophile CD player for $555 (October 20, 2005)
- HOWTO: Build the CMoy pocket amplifier (October 16, 2005)
[...] We’ve got a new line of flash-based players from SanDisk; like their predecessors (e100 series) we expect these will get the job done nicely and decently (that’s why we’re covering it), but won’t turn any heads. These will come in 512MB/1GB/2GB/4GB capacities with the first one (m230 – 512MB) going for $80 and the last (m260 – 4GB) for $200. (The low price of the 4GB player is justified cause they use their own 70-nanometer NAND/MLC 8-gigabit chip.) They run on a single AAA battery for 19 hours, according to the company’s press release. PlaysForSure support is here, so your tracks from subscription services will play just fine. The FM tuner and voice recorder are welcomed features as well. Sadly, there’s no SD slot like in the e100 series. Available in the States now, while the Europeans will have to wait till November. According to Engadget, if you sign up for at least 6 months service of Real’s Rhapsody To Go ($15/month), you get a $80 rebate. [...]
...added by SanDisk introduces the Sansa m200 series -- HiFi Blog /// January 16th, 2006 at 17:33 PM