New Gadget Review

[dsrtao]

Sansa Clip+ MP3 player (4GB, plus a microSDHC slot)

Total price for the player plus an 8GB microSDHC card (they come up to 32GB, but the premium charged is horrendous): $65.

Well. It's small. It's light. It charges from a USB port. It speaks USB2.0 in mass storage mode or in Microsoft's media transfer protocol. It has a very small but bright display, clicky buttons, and will drive studio monitor headphones to near-painful volume levels without distortion. There's an FM radio and a voice recorder.

It prefers to have ID3 tags on MP3 files. When the uSD card is inserted, it shows up as a distinct music repository from the internal storage, and appears as a second mass storage disk when connected to a computer.

Mature technology.

Comments

[dlevey.livejournal.com]

So, you like?
I liked the previous Sansa I had (now gone the way of most things in a house with young kids), and particularly enjoyed the removable storage.

[dsrtao]

I like. I'm shocked by how small it is -- the size of a box of matches, and weight about the same.

[be-well-lowell.livejournal.com]

Other features of note: superior audio quality, handles Ogg Vorbis happily, firmware is under active development, and I haven't needed Windows for anything except playlist management.

I think I've bought four of these at this point; replaced mine once, bought two for Kristin. Not the "+" model, though; the ones without the flash slot; for carrying in my gym bag, I actually *prefer* to have a fully sealed unit.