If Apple’s entry-level iPod Shuffle doesn’t blow your skirt up and, with the recession still holding fast, you’re not willing to invest in a more pocket-stretching Nano, then where else can you look for quality digital playback on a budget? Open your eyes, and potentially your wallet, as SansaDisk offers up its sexy little Sansa Clip+.
The small, sexy Shuffle beater? Image: SansaDisk.
Building on the original Sansa Clip music player, the Clip+ arrives as a genuine point of attraction for those considering a bog-standard iPod purchase, thanks to internal storage up to 8GBs, microSDHC memory expansion up to 16GBs (four times the Shuffle’s capacity) and impressive continuous playback time of 15 hours, which is 50 percent more than Apple’s platform.
Much like its predecessor, the Sansa Clip+ also carries a small but capable OLED display screen (while the Shuffle doesn’t have a screen), along with a graphic equaliser, an on-board FM tuner, simple drag-and-drop content transfer, Rhapsody compatibility, and file support for MP3, WMA, secure WMA, Audible, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC.
Of course, while the little Clip+ intially appears to have the edge over the Shuffle in terms of bullet point specifications, surely the stripped down accessibility of Apple’s entry-level player means the Sansa will fall short when it comes to pricing, right?
Wrong. When it arrives in the U.S. market this coming September 13, the upper-tier 8GB Sansa Clip+ will retail for just $70 USD, which clearly undercuts the $79 USD price of the 4GB Shuffle.
And, if the 8GB flavour is still too rich for your palette, then a modest 2GB Clip+ comes in at a mere $40 USD and a mid-point, Shuffle-rivalling 4GB version will cost $50 USD – almost $30 USD less than Apple’s player.
We will now compose a letter to SansaDisk’s PR in an attempt to procure a review unit of the Clip+ and see just how well it performs in the real world.
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