SanDisk working on "Sansa Tap" trademark

It could come to nothing, but the enterprising crew at DAPReview just dug up a SanDisk trademark filing for a player called the "Sansa Tap." The mark hasn't been granted yet, but it's been a while since we've seen a new Sansa -- and no, the thoroughly ridiculous SlotMusic Player doesn't count. We'll see how it goes -- we'd love SanDisk to blow our minds with some crazy MusicGremlin-powered touchscreen player, but something tells us the company might be a little distracted with other problems right now.

[Via DAPReview]

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:18AM]

IMO, the SlotMusic concept (paying for MP3s on CD-like removable media, albeit far smaller) is ridiculous when we have CDs that are higher quality and can be converted to anything, but the player (removable battery, removable media) is something I'd love to see far more of, and I think they hit the mark on those points. (a detailed screen would be nice, too).

Sansa Tap = touchscreen?

[scape Posted Mar 4th 2009 8:40AM]

sansa tap, it's all the rage!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 9:00AM]

Any relation to Spinal Tap?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 9:12AM]

It was misspelled. They meant to trademark the "Sansa Trap." It was to build on the naming scheme they were developing, with SlotMusic originally planned to launch as the "Sansa Crap."

[Joe Geronimo Posted Mar 4th 2009 9:49AM]

damn, beat me to it

[Takato Posted Mar 4th 2009 12:33PM]

OMG lol, I'm dyslexic, so at first, I missread that as "santa trap"

[joshky Posted Mar 4th 2009 10:53AM]

i'd tap that, if you know what i mean. :]

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 11:42AM]

damn beat me to it,

SANDISK if your out there, you now have your tag line:
" I'd tap that "

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 12:58PM]

Fools! The headline should have read "This is Sansa Tap."

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 3:00PM]

Not sure about that all-too-confident anti-physical-media position we are repeating here so enthusiastically... I recall reading this last month - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/02/slotmusic-peopl.html - so sandisk may actually be on to something we are regularly dismissing as irrelevant...

[Orangecat Posted Mar 4th 2009 9:14PM]

C'mon SanDisk, good UI, your standard features and your prices and you have a customer