New Gadget Review
Feb. 11th, 2010 07:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dsrtaoSansa 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.
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.
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Date: 2010-02-12 01:37 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2010-02-12 02:53 pm (UTC)