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April 20, 2007
On the road...
I just got back from the funeral of a friend, and I'll be gone the rest of the day. As I'm not one to blog while driving, blogging will naturally be rendered almost impossible, until maybe very late at night. While on the road, though, I expect to be having a great time with a new mp3 player, which does more more than I expected, and seems well worth its $79.00 ebay price. It's a Sansa e260, and it's become known as the poor man's alternative to the Ipod. It's a real surprise, and frankly, I'm incredibly impressed with the thing. Here's what one engadget reviewer said: It ain't perfect, but the e260 is a solid competitor to the iPod nano, and if forced to choose between the two, I'd pick the Sansa. With a cheaper price, larger screen, integrated FM tuner, better battery life (twenty hours to the nano's fourteen -- plus the e260's battery is more easily replaced), a MicroSD expansion card slot, and a solid user interface, the e260 gets a lot more right than it gets wrong.It has video playback (not record) a built-in FM radio, a built in voice (or FM radio) recorder, and holds 4 gigabytes. Without reading instructions or installing the software, it took about forty minutes to download my favorite 937 songs from my hard drive. Ready to rock! (Of course, being that it's Friday, I expect awful traffic, so I'm glad to have a player with a battery that won't keep conking out on me like the last one.....) MORE: For those not interested in clicking on the link, here's a picture of the unit, playing a sci-fi video of some sort:  (Now I'm really out of here!) posted by Eric on 04.20.07 at 02:09 PM
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It also records from the FM radio, which is a handy feature. I'm loving this unit, as it's so much easier to operate that my old hard-drive based Creative Zen player. The battery lasts longer too, and I can detect no difference in the sound quality. Eric Scheie · April 24, 2007 09:52 AM Post a comment
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My wife just got a Sansa. When she bought it, she didn't even realize that it had a built-in FM receiver. So far she likes it.