Friday, September 01, 2006

Review of my new Sansa e260




I love my new mp3 player. It's a sansa e260.
About the same size as an ipod mini
4 Gigs
Plays Video
Mp3s
FM Tuner
Voice Recorder
Replaceable and rechargeable battery
Expansion slot for additional memory
I bought it for $139
Works with napster, rhapsody, yahoo music and most mp3 subscription services

It's my first attempt at moving away from the ipod. It doesn't play mp3s from the itunes store but it works with my rhapsody subscription. It's an interesting system. With my rhapsody subscription I dont actually buy the mp3s I just pay a monthly fee and it allows me to listen to pretty much anything even new releases. It also lets me put these mp3s on my sansa e260 as long as im a subscriber to rhapsody.

I definetly have issues with DRM, I personally feel mp3s should be pure mp3s and playable on any mp3 player regardless of where you buy them. But at the same time I kind of like my subscription service because I get to check out every album the day it comes out and in a way it saves me so much money that I would have normally spent on an album with one good song. I guess its like Netflix. You dont own it but you can watch or listen to it when ever you want.

Short video of the Sansa e260 in my hand and playing a Final Fantasy Trailer


Anyone else have a good experience with a non iPod mp3 player?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

YES! Congratulations on moving away from iPod.