Another ipod bites the Sansa dust
The new Sansa e280 by SanDisk, is now the largest flash memory music player on the market; housing a whopping 8Gb of space and microSD expansion slots, in its sleek alloy metal scratch resistant frame, with a 1.8inch LCD display screen, - for the agreeable price of 249.99,“once again making it incredibly affordable for consumers to purchase the most feature-rich, high-capacity players," (Eric Bone, SanDisk's director of audio/video product marketing).
This release surely marks progress from SanDisk’s recent involvement with Toshiba; where work was done on expanding its flash memory capacity, and recent purchase of M-Systems which passed on to SanDisk a vast portfolio of products including Flash-SSD drives and embedded modules.
The 1.7" x 3.5" x 0.5" player comes equipped with photo and video playback, FM radio tuning and recording, and built-in microphone (aka= memos on the go).
The e280 supports open, non-proprietary DRM systems, and users can process photos and videos using the bundled Sansa Media Converter software; which work with both MP3 audio and windows media, and PlaysForSure compatibility so the Sansa e280 will support subscription services like Rhapsody To Go, Napster, etc. The e280 is equipped with a USB 2.0 interface connectivity and lives up to 20 hours in between charges to its obviously rechargeable lithium ion battery.
Pre-orders are being accepted now on the SanDisk products site with estimated availability tied to mid-September. Windows XP is required for hook-up.
In making room for the new addition to the Sansa e-family, prices have dropped on the other e200’s, as well as an offered free case for your player with purchase. (The Sansa e250, e260 and e270 are now priced at $139.99, $179.99 and $219.99 respectively
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SanDisk(R) Corporation has launched a new microSD card which has a storage space of a whopping 2GB.This is the first time that a 2GB card has been made available to the public and has been designed keeping in mind the new crop of MP3 music phones. Case in point the new LG Chocolate Phone by Verizon Wireless which can store up to 1,000 digital songs downloaded from the company's V CAST music service.Those with older phones need not worry as this new 2GB card comes equipped with an adapter to accommodate a standard-size SD(TM) slot. The SanDisk 2GB microSD card will be sold by Verizon Wireless soon for $99.99 in the US and in coming weeks it will see a world wide release. For more info visit
Sandisk today introduced the SanDisk Ultra II Mobile line of flash memory cards for multimedia-enabled mobile phones, at the CeBIT Hannover, Germany. Exclusively designed for Mobile phones with memory card slots, the Ultra II Mobile memory cards have faster read and write speeds than standard flash memory cards, as well as longer warranty periods. Faster read/write speeds attributes for improvement in performance and also proves to be effective by consuming less energy which inturn improve battery lifes of certain phones and are expected to accommodate performance requirements of future mobile phone models.
The ULTRA II line of cards include three memory card formats, microSD, miniSD and Memory Stick PRO Duo. THe cards will be available starting at a capacity of 1GB. The cards have the write speed of a whopping 9MB/sec and read speed of 10MB/sec. The cards come only in high capacities ranging from 1GB to 4GB. I think it fits the bill perfectly for users of phones with MP3 players as they can buy these 1GB cards and will immediately benefit from the speed in transferring large music playlists and videos from their computer to their card.
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