SanDisk Sansa Player to Take on iPod nano

March 13, 2006 by Cell Phone Review
Filed under: IPOD, Misc, Podcasting, Portable Media 

A USA Today interview with SanDisk CEO Eli Harari talks about the company’s pending release of a new player to take on Apple in the flash player market. SanDisk, which is currently second with 10 percent marketshare, is trying to leverage its lower flash memory costs and its 150,000 retail locations: “This month, we’re introducing a new player, the Sansa e200, and it’s superb. We feel it’s far better designed than Apple’s Nano, which also uses flash memory instead of a Sansa and iPod Nanohard drive to store the music.
Our new Sansa is priced attractively and has many more features than the Nano. You can view pictures and videos on our unit. We have FM radio, voice recording, a slot to add extra memory from a card, and a removable battery. The Nano doesn’t have those. You have to ship the unit back to Apple if you have a problem with the battery.”

Sansa e130 Digital Audio Player 512MB
Price: $59.99

Sansa e140 Digital Audio Player 1GB
Price: $89.99

The Sansa line from SanDisk seems to be extremely competitive when comparing with the iPod nano. IT should be an exciting fight between these.

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