Sansa Shaker: unboxed and oh-so-cute

These days we're hardly content with WiFi-capable superDAPs, much less a screenless and awkward SD-based player, but luckily the children of the world aren't so picky when it comes to enjoying their tunes -- though we're sure in a few years nothing less than a 64GB flash player with a 1080p screen and built-in smell-o-vision will suffice. At least that's what Chris from Mobility Site discovered about the new Sansa Shaker, whose four year old son has taken quite the liking to the device. The cutesy sound effects and pre-loaded songs seem like they'll get old right quick, and despite Sansa's best efforts the controls don't seem terribly intuitive, but 512MB of good times for $40 isn't bad at all. Peep the read link for video of the unboxing and the little man's first impressions.

[(Unverified) Posted May 7th 2007 9:32AM]

Shake it like a Sansa Shaker!

[(Unverified) Posted May 7th 2007 10:04AM]

a non-intuitive mp3 player for children?
Give them an ipod schuffle man!

[Smart People Play Tuba Posted May 7th 2007 10:43AM]

. . . or for the same price and twice the capacity, why not the Creative Stone?

[(Unverified) Posted May 7th 2007 11:45AM]

because kids aren't capable to understand the interfaces made by creative, and can't read the display. So it is useless for them.

[Arkv2 Posted May 7th 2007 1:28PM]

The creative stone doesn't have a display :|

[symmetryx Posted May 7th 2007 12:02PM]

because no one wants to be sued when their child chokes on a shuffle.

[trainwrecka Posted May 7th 2007 11:06AM]

...because the whole family is already using iTunes to manage their music and videos.

[(Unverified) Posted May 7th 2007 12:33PM]

This got a video review on Cnet weeks ago, this isn't news.

[(Unverified) Posted May 8th 2007 7:22AM]

Please don't start that "I saw this four whole hours ago, Engadget is too slow!" stuff again. It's news to me, I don't really care if Engadget wasn't the very first site on the whole Internet to break the story.

Cute kid, too.

[(Unverified) Posted May 7th 2007 8:32PM]

Why does this get reviewed on Mobility Site when Chris also owns DAP Site? I mean, this /is/ a DAP, is it not? Us DAP Site forum regulars always get the short stick.