Sandisk Sansa E200 reviewed - good but expensive

We were reading through LordPercy's thorough review when this sentence caught our eye:

Sadly all media has be be pushed through the supplied software (including images, even JPEGS) before they can successfully be viewed on the Sandisk player.

Which is, needless to say, a lousy implementation. We can only imagine that the JPEGs are being resized (and possibly optimised?). The review concludes:

Overall we were very impressed with Sandisks efforts and the Sansa E200 series is a worthy player for your attention and something a bit different to consider when looking at the more obvious iPod Nano and Creative V Plus. It's advantage should be price but at the time of writing the 6gb model is still being held at £154 which is iPod money. However Sandisk have confirmed that n 8gb model is due very soon and this will almost certainly lead to a price drop in the rest of the range which also includes 2gb and 4gb models.

Via LordPercy

Posted by Staff on 28 August 2006

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