With a street price of just $60 for the 2GB model, the Sansa Clip is one of most affordable MP3 players on the market. A new 4GB model also just became available in silver. If your tastes are a little more, well, normal, the Clip can also be had in black, red, and blue. I’m not sure why, but I’m a sucker for pink gadgets-but only hot magenta pink, not Hello Kitty pastels. Charging only takes a few hours, as well.īy now you’ve no doubt noticed that my Clip is a rather obnoxious shade of pink. SanDisk claims the Clip offers 15 hours of battery life, and after several weeks of use, I’d say that estimate is pretty accurate. Located on the back, the clip makes it easy to secure the player to straps or clothing, so you don’t need to bother spending extra on a case. You get a virtual directional pad with a select button in the middle and a home button that rolls back to the main menu.Īlthough it’s hardly the device’s defining feature, the Clip predictably features, well, a clip. Navigating the Clip’s interface is a simple affair thanks to a collection of buttons on the face of the unit. The piece de resistance, however, is the ability to switch the display to a full-screen spectrum analyzer, giving the Clip a measure of basic visualization effects. Building playlists on the go is easy, too. The presence of a screen might not seem like a big deal, but when you’ve got a player with 2GB of capacity, it’s nice to be able to easily select individual tracks or albums for playback. Sharp contrast makes the screen easy to read in nearly all light conditions, and the display is so brilliant that I don’t need the brightness cranked above around 20% most of the time. The screen only displays two colors-light blue and yellow-but that’s all you need to navigate the player’s excellent user interface. One of the things the Clip gains thanks to its additional volume and weight is a fancy OLED display. More importantly, it costs $20 less, yet packs twice the capacity and a gorgeous OLED display. Like the shuffle, it’s tiny and has an integrated clip. It didn’t take me long to find something better in the form of SanDisk’s Sansa Clip. $79 for a 1GB player that doesn’t have a screen? Surely you jest. Since I’ve been reasonably happy with my iPod, I thought it would be only fair to consider the latest shuffle. However, a couple of years of mud, dust, rain, and sweat finally took its toll on the Nano, leaving me searching for a new flash-based player to abuse during my workouts.
Capacity doesn’t matter much, since if I’m riding my bike or out running, I only need the loud, energetic, thrashy subset of my MP3 archive that makes me go faster.įor the last while, a Creative Zen Nano has filled in as my flash-based MP3 player, and it’s largely been good. Here, I’m looking for something small, lightweight, relatively inexpensive, and with flash storage that won’t mind being rattled around. This is where my secondary MP3 player comes in. But if I’m running or navigating one of my bikes down technical singletrack littered with roots, rocks, and other bits of bone-jarring nature, I tend to shy away from anything with a spinning hard drive. I’ll even take the iPod skiing, which isn’t terribly jarring, and it does just fine at the gym as long as I’m lifting weights and not otherwise bouncing the fragile hard drive around. Being able to carry around this extensive library of tunes is fantastically convenient, making the iPod perfect for toting around town and even better for traveling. The first-currently an 80GB iPod-is responsible for storing my vast MP3 archive of almost 450 albums ripped with the most anal quality settings possible. Dazzlingrock Collection 0.Always obsessed with finding the right tool for the job, I’ve long run not one, but two MP3 players.
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