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October 13, 2005

Sandisk Sansa M200 mp3 player

SanDisk unveiled its m200 series of flash-based MP3 players, the first higher capacity players to break the $100 USD price barrier while ensuring PlaysForSure compatibility. The SanDisk players will range in capacity from 512MB to 4GB.

With a retail price of $79.99 USD for its 512MB model, SanDisk has priced the devices about a third less than competing players. For the most part, similar margins exist all the way up to the largest model - the 4GB m200 at a price of $199.99 USD.

"It is SanDisk's guiding principle to always provide superior value to its customers," Eric Bone, director of retail product marketing at SanDisk, said in a statement.

"One of the ways we have done this with the Sansa m200 line is to feature support for music subscription services and capacities that include a 4-gigabyte (GB) model for $199.99, made possible with our new 70-nanometer NAND/MLC 8-gigabit chip."

The player could potentially be the first true competition to anything from Apple due to its competitive price and support for subscription-based music services such as Napster, Real Rhapsody and Yahoo! Music Unlimited, according to analysts.

"[This is the] first serious flash-based device to support portable subscriptions [with] aggressive pricing," Jupiter Research senior analyst and vice president David Card said. "We think this could be an emerging sweet spot, especially when you can get a few hundred songs on a $100 device."

The SanDisk m200 players will be available immediately in the United States and in November across Europe.

[via betanews]

Posted by mp3fan at October 13, 2005 4:28 PM

Comments

The Sansa m200 mp3 player is great but comes with the most lowsy instruction booklet ever created. It gives you a very basic overview of what each button does and then leaves you in the dark to figure out how to organize anything on the player.

Posted by: Jacko at February 28, 2006 3:14 PM

The Sansa m200 is lousy on telling how to put songs from your iTunes onto the player. Also you can't even see the songs on your computer. I don't know how to delete any or see if I already have it without deleting. Even if I got the song somewhere else, I don't know how to save it onto my computer so I can add it again if I want to listen to it. Does anyone have a answer to how I can see my songs?

Posted by: mk at July 22, 2006 9:17 PM

How do i delete songs?

Posted by: Archie at August 10, 2006 11:41 PM