Being tempted by an iPod?

[lovingboth]

Coo - the Sandisk Sansa e280 8G byte flash memory video/mp3 player is now under £75 at Amazon.

I bought one of these for L at £120ish around Christmas, and she's been delighted with it. I almost bought one recently when the price fell to £99, and I've just done so now it's gone down even further.

As well as being £30 cheaper than the equivalent iPod nano (£45 cheaper than the latest ones), it also appears to your PC/Mac as a USB disk, so you don't need to faff with iTunes or Apple trying to stop you using anything else.

Comments

[barakta]

iTunes is /evil/.

That looks like it has a decent interface, I actually hate the iPod interface. I will keep an eye on that for anyone I want to recommend a smallish MP3 player for.

[xugglybug.livejournal.com]

FYI, if you set an iPod to "enable disk use", I don't think you have to use iTunes.

(I know you can then drag objects in using Explorer/Finder/other OS equivalent - whether or not that can include music/videos that are then playable on the iPod, I don't know, as I just use my USB stick, and I don't have my iPod with me to experiment.)

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

Looks good!

[beermat]

tempted, tempted...

Dont forget to mention

[kingginger.livejournal.com]

You can expand the storage aswell using the MicroSD card (I have 2Gb in mine)

And the built in radio.
And the built in Mic.


I have one (plus the docking station thing) and had one for the year (got mine from Singapore).

Love it, just about to get some bluetooth headphones for mine.

Quick one - do you still have the installation / conversion disk for yours? I lost mine and like its handy video conversion software for it... I dont suppose you can see if you can zip n email or zip and ftp it?
You dont seem to be able to download that part of the software from Sandisk.

Jules