Remember
slotMusic? How about
slotRadio? Don't feel bad -- no one else on the planet does either. To that end, SanDisk is apparently hoping to push some aging inventory on unsuspecting consumers with its new Sansa Clip+, which is essentially a
Sansa Clip with a microSD card slot. The device will ship in a trio of hues (red, blue or black), and you can rest assured that it won't blow any minds with sick new features. It'll play MP3 files on a relatively small screen, get great battery life and barely put a dent in your wallet -- what more could you really want? It's available starting today from Best Buy and the like for $39.99 (2GB), $49.99 (4GB) or $69.99 (8GB).
Update: Looks like
a few early
reviews have sprung up, with most folks being totally pleased given the low price.
posted August 31st 2009 9:49AM
Hi.
I've been looking for something to replace my aging Sansa Express that does have a microSDHC slot that I use. I was always disappointed that the clip did not have a microSDHC slot so I am glad to see this improvement.
Wonderful little $40 player. The ogg support and ability to drag & drop files much like a mounted flash drive in linux and windows has made the Clip my primary player. Curious to see how the new media slot does with sweat during long runs though.
Darn it! I just bought a Sansa Fuze cuz the clip didn't have a micro sd slot! HATE!!!
Well, tell you what my hombres. It appears Best Buy down the block (23rd and 6th Ave here in NYC) has Blue and Black 4GB versions in stock RIGHT NOW. Will pick one up for the missus tonight. I didn't mention it in my first post -- she had a refurb Silver 2GB from Woot.com, but the clip got torn off one day when she jumped off a scaffold. She does faux wallpainting techniques, works on remodelling projects, and always wears the player to her projects and jobsites. That damage to the clip assembly was the only type of effect on her Clip -- even after being dropped, sat on, and splattered with paint and cleaned with an evil smelling solvent.
If Dewalt or Bosch ever decide to make portable MP3 players for jobsites, they need get SanDisk involved. And oh year, my wife had/has a Bosch CD/MP3 jobsite boombox. It DIED.
This is a great device with great size and excellent value, in a super form factor. And humorously, if that fruit company had issued it, Engadget would be wetting itself right now over it, rather than being somewhat cynical and snarky (how many new Shuffle entries did Engadget post?). The Clip is one of the best-selling ultra-small players, bar none, which only will increase with the Clip+ and its microSD capability.
I have a 2gb clip and a huge collection of flac encoded music. Having a portable flac jukebox this small would be heaven. 24gb of flac would be just enough for me.
Wow not sure why the negative title...I see that lots of people actually like this device from reading the comments. I really like it too! It's small, reasonably priced, and now it has a slot for more storage. It also plays slotRadio and slotMusic cards. Perfect for me to work out and don't have to worry about it!
well, good bye sandisk...you played so crystal clear, where so simple and cheap-- needed no special software... ahh.... and now I think i can forecast the death of sandisk in the pmp arena...
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090831005197&newsLang=en
"Based on continuous playback at 128kbps MP3; actual life and performance may vary depending upon usage and settings; battery not replaceable."
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If they came with a removable battery in addition to the slot, I'd buy one as a show of support for their good work.
My guess is Mr Murph doesn't like removable media and good codec support (like FLAC http://flac.sourceforge.net and Ogg Vorbis http://www.vorbis.com .
Nobody may care about buying slotmusic cards (1GB microSD cards preloaded with crappe), but I kinda like the ability to stick 16GB MicroSD card in a portable player, and if the storage goes bad, just replacing it. Especially if the murmurs of their hardware sounding half-decent are true.
I had one, someone stole it. Very good MP3 player. I love how you could customize EQ, record FM or from the mic, and sync to Rhapsody. I might buy a new one for the bike riding since it was small enough to stay on my brake cable
it doesn't worth that much,
disagree - it didn't values that much.
are you sure you're not a LOLCat by any chance?
Also, Engadget, people like the Clip players because of all the features they offer for a tiny player, including full-sized, great sound, better than anything else out there in their class. The lower and realistic price (rather than price-gouging with some other fruit-company players) only makes it even better--but the price is not the motivating factor. If that's what you want, buy a Chinese generic player.
I bought a Fuze about a half year ago, same sound chip as the original Clip.
Was completely underwhelmed by the sound. Sure, it was flat, nothing was accented, but the thing muffled detail like crazy. Either I received a dud, or people have lower standards than me I guess. To my ears at least, both my old iriver H320, and a 5G iPod sounded considerably better.
For the price of these Clips though, I can't really fault them. Just going around saying that they have the best sound quality is misleading. They have good sound quality for the price. You can do better, considerably better. I've read comparisons and reviews on head-fi that confirm that especially the new series of flash player, ie the Cowon S9, Sony X1000, even the 3GS all sound better, and I would not be the least bit surprised if that were true.